Current Events > Israel reportedly behind the StingRay spying devices found around DC in 2017

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https://www.politico.com/story/2019/09/12/israel-white-house-spying-devices-1491351

The U.S. government concluded within the past two years that Israel was most likely behind the placement of cellphone surveillance devices that were found near the White House and other sensitive locations around Washington, according to three former senior U.S. officials with knowledge of the matter.

But unlike most other occasions when flagrant incidents of foreign spying have been discovered on American soil, the Trump administration did not rebuke the Israeli government, and there were no consequences for Israels behavior, one of the former officials said.

The miniature surveillance devices, colloquially known as StingRays, mimic regular cell towers to fool cellphones into giving them their locations and identity information. Formally called international mobile subscriber identity-catchers or IMSI-catchers, they also can capture the contents of calls and data use.

The devices were likely intended to spy on President Donald Trump, one of the former officials said, as well as his top aides and closest associates though its not clear whether the Israeli efforts were successful.

Trump is reputed to be lax in observing White House security protocols. POLITICO reported in May 2018 that the president often used an insufficiently secured cellphone to communicate with friends and confidants. The New York Times subsequently reported in October 2018 that Chinese spies are often listening to Trumps cellphone calls, prompting the president to slam the story as so incorrect I do not have time here to correct it. (A former official said Trump has had his cellphone hardened against intrusion.)

By then, as part of tests by the federal government, officials at the Department of Homeland Security had already discovered evidence of the surveillance devices around the nations capital, but werent able to attribute the devices to specific entities. The officials shared their findings with relevant federal agencies, according to a letter a top Department of Homeland Security official, Christopher Krebs, wrote in May 2018 to Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.).

Based on a detailed forensic analysis, the FBI and other agencies working on the case felt confident that Israeli agents had placed the devices, according to the former officials, several of whom served in top intelligence and national security posts.

Neat
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TC you need to close this anti-Semitic topic IMMEDIATELY
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The president responds

https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1172279812569915397
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Antifar posted...

The president responds

https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1172279812569915397

Trump only believes his gut and his gut is full of hamberders and junk food.
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Antifar posted...

The president responds

https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1172279812569915397

"idk about isreal but what matters is ME ME ME"
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I thought we were friends though. For shame, Israel.
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It amuses me to no end that most of the conservatives in this country have some strange hard-on for a country that legitimately hates our guts. I swear, they have the worst case of battered wife syndrome.
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The US government is bought by Israel.

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EverDownward posted...

It amuses me to no end that most of the conservatives in this country have some strange hard-on for a country that legitimately hates our guts. I swear, they have the worst case of battered wife syndrome.

Conservative support for Israel is based on biblical prophecy. No joke.

Why would it spy on a country that only acts out its whims? Might as well spy on themselves.

what a coward trump is

stand up to israel

we didnt put up with this shit when pollard tried to steal nuclear secrets for them
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Nothing will be done.

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Broseph_Stalin posted...

EverDownward posted...

It amuses me to no end that most of the conservatives in this country have some strange hard-on for a country that legitimately hates our guts. I swear, they have the worst case of battered wife syndrome.

Conservative support for Israel is based on biblical prophecy. No joke.

Which is funny because the most hardcore end times theorists Ive talked to do not exactly consider Israel the good guys in the coming apocalypse.
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shockthemonkey posted...

Antifar posted...

The president responds

https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1172279812569915397

Imagine being a foreign nation that wants to spy on the US right now

Probably feel the same as that one reporter that was like "I worked on this story for MONTHS and he just tweeted it!"
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