“To accomplish this feat all of them would have to be recording every packet, in a secured government data center to parse at a later date”
And that is what the NSA does. There are a few patriots there. Rogers was one.
Yes, NSA could do it.
And probably the Russians.
But very doubtful an ad-hoc collection of concerned CISSPs would even try.
You think NSA would turn such information over to a pillow merchant? It would be classified as high as nuclear launch codes. And Trump would have had access to the info in less than an hour.
And could have declared national emergency and pulled the plug on the coup within another hour.
Furthermore, we may have the packet info from the Chinese side via the defected spy chief — of whom may have been a white hat DIA asset.
Just speculation. We shall see.