[JumpCrisscross]

Do we have a source on the Wall Street Journal articles Cotton references?

More broadly, we would need to know if Dataminr is sharing (a) its full fire hose with RT, or just a subset of it and (b) any data with the subcontractors to the Intelligence Community, in which case we can assume they made a policy decision to not work with state intelligence agencies, misguided as that may be in today's hybrid world.

TL; DR Doesn't strike me as specious solely based on what's provided here.

[pheldagryph]

Good questions. Another I'd add is: are there any contractual/legal requirements preventing these intel subcontractors from proxying the full firehose to CIA? If so, it's possible those requirements would be respected on the government side.

I'm skeptical there would be any practical restrictions in RT's case.