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Israeli spyware found on cellphones of journalists including at New York Times, CNN and AP, also members of royal families and politicians around world, Biden connection
2021-07-19
Those eeeeeevil Joooos are now polluting our mobile phones after infiltrating our previously pure societies!!! At least that’s what news sites around the world are reporting. Even One India has several reports on the story today.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Software, called Pegasus, was developed by Israel's NSO group, a private firm

  • List of more than 50,000 phone numbers included journalists and politicians

  • Women on list close to murdered Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi

  • Many clients were clustered in 10 countries - Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Hungary, India, Kazakhstan, Mexico, Morocco, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.

The BBC adds:
It is not clear where the list came from - or whose phones had actually been hacked.

NSO denies any wrongdoing.

It says the software is intended for use against criminals and terrorists and is made available only to military, law enforcement and intelligence agencies from countries with good human rights records.

In a statement, it said the original investigation which led to the reports, by Paris-based NGO Forbidden Stories and the human rights group Amnesty International, was "full of wrong assumptions and uncorroborated theories".

Update at 8:00 a.m. ET from Fox News:
In a Twitter thread, New York Times reporter Kenneth Vogel explained that the NSO Group had paid the company SKDK, the Democratic-aligned firm of Biden advisor Anita Dunn until late 2019.

He further explained, "NSO GROUP also paid BEACON GLOBAL STRATEGIES (a firm started by JEREMY BASH, an MSNBC analyst who served as CIA & Pentagon chief of staff under OBAMA) until early 2020, @NSOGroup told me last yr. It said @SKDK & Beacon Global ‘provided communications & business strategy advice.’"

"NSO Group has retained TOM CLARE to attack the investigation as ‘speculative & baseless.’@TAClare's boutique defamation firm @clarelockellp also has represented the Russian oligarch OLEG DERIPASKA, Project Veritas (vs the @NYTimes) & Dominion Voting Systems, among other clients," Vogel wrote.
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Amnesty International: 2021-07-04 SDC condemns Syrian opposition statements on Syria's Afrin
Amnesty International: 2021-06-28 Key witness in Assange case admits to lies in indictment
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