Story here.

What is Nokia's Chief Security Specialist's association with this shady provider of rootkits to the US Government?

This is fitting example how bad practices accumulate to insecurity, even among those professionals. Nothing more, nothing less.
It is a very cheap shot to mix in the names of Nokia, USA and some security firm to construct some conspiracy here. But go on and get the popcorn ready, folks.

Are you saying that the only connection between hbgary and Nokia's Chief Security Specialist is that he just happens to have root access to that server, for no good reason?

I'm not commenting on the social engineering or the rest of the security breach, its the connection that I'm curious about, especially with the increasing ties between Nokia and the USA.

I have no theory on this yet, that's why I asked.

I think Hoglund just runs rootkit.com (Forum) to network with that community, with no direct ties to his gov't work. Jussi might've been just a trusted contributor from that forum (which is in line with his work), picked to admin his email server (which hosts rootkit's and also hbgary's).

It'd be interesting to read the rootkit.com's community feedback/reaction thread about that whole debacle.

I think you're probably right. Having read a bit more, it sounds like the email archive was obtained from a different box, and that the machine that Jussi administered was just the web server.