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The US government has concluded that Israel was likely behind cellphone surveillance devices placed near the White House, and other sensitive locations, Politico reported, citing three former senior US officials.
The “StingRays” are miniature surveillance devices that mimic a regular cell tower 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 spying equipment was quite obviously there to spy on US President Donald Trump and his aides, since he is infamous about being quite lax in observing White House security protocols.
Prior to October 2018, Homeland Security had discovered evidence of surveillance but had no way to tie it to a specific foreign actor.
The Department of Homeland Security 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.
Most recently, based on forensic analysis carried out by the FBI and other security agencies working on the investigation, it was allegedly discovered that Israeli agents were behind the placement of the StingRays.
An Israeli Embassy spokesperson, Elad Strohmayer, denied that Israel placed the devices and said:
“These allegations are absolute nonsense. Israel doesn’t conduct espionage operations in the United States, period.”
An unnamed Trump administration official said that they wouldn’t provide a comment, the same goes for FBI and other security agencies.
Politico furthermore reported that after publishing the story, US President Donald Trump said that it he wouldn find it “hard to believe” that Israel was behind it.
“I don’t think the Israelis were spying on us,” Trump said. “My relationship with Israel has been great…Anything is possible but I don’t believe it.”
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu also denied after publication that Israel was behind the devices.
“We have a directive, I have a directive: No intelligence work in the United States, no spies,” he said in a gaggle with reporters. “And it’s vigorously implemented, without any exception. It [the report] is a complete fabrication, a complete fabrication.”
But according to Politico’s sources, who are former US intelligence officials with “deep experience” said that it was definitely Israel behind it, but the Trump Administration simply refused to take action against it.
“The reaction … was very different than it would have been in the last administration,” this person said. “With the current administration, there are a different set of calculations in regard to addressing this.”
According to the sources, in addition to Trump himself, many of his aides and close friends and acquaintances were possible spying targets, but this current administration would take no action against Israeli surveillance activities.
“The Israelis are pretty aggressive” in their intelligence gathering operations, said a former senior intelligence official. “They’re all about protecting the security of the Israeli state and they do whatever they feel they have to achieve that objective.”
China was also suspected, but in contrast to past incident of alleged spying, weren’t directly accused without evidence, and that is because according to the sources, the methodology seemed unlikely to be coming from Beijing.
“You can often, depending upon the tradecraft of the people who put them in place, figure out who’s been accessing them to pull the data off the devices,” a source explained.
One of Politico’s sources expressed his surprise that no action was being taken, saying that in the past many in the presidential administration were shocked as how Israel had knowledge of internal US policy that was to be kept private.
“There were suspicions that they were listening in,” the former official said, based on his Israeli counterparts flaunting a level of detailed knowledge “that was hard to explain otherwise. Sometimes it was sort of knowledge of our thinking. Occasionally there were some turns of phrase like language that as far as we knew had only appeared in drafts of speeches and never been actually used publicly, and then some Israeli official would repeat it back to us and say, ‘This would be really problematic if you were to say X,’” said the former official.
Naturally, the US also gathers intelligence on Israeli leaders, but usually the US applies quite the double standard on issues such as this. If the report by Politico is true, this is yet another example of how wide-ranging and endless Washington’s current support for Tel Aviv is.
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good job Trump doesnt drink, smoke or do drugs. he is the cleanest president the USA has had for some time
He is zionist-scum super-spoiled brat that doesn’t know what the heck he’s doing. Trump is the worst thing the US has ever known. Eroding soft power, pushing the debt further, israel First, america last policy, his trade-war with China results in more damages for US companies than Chineese companies. Made Iran a regional power by giving them the opportunity to flex their muscles on the US, made a KILLING in Yemen with millions starving and still supplying weapons to MBS, MBS a US ally that dismembered and slaughtered a journalist inside a Embassy, the list is even longer, but i will stop here.
Mr.Ceasar calm down at least for know.I am also a critic of Trump but God is in control.He controls this ugly man call Trump. Please calm down.
Qanon is a mossad op, aiming at getting him reelected by making people believe that he will drain the swamp. Have no faith in a prostitute called Trump. He will sell his countries service for personal payments. He worships the Rothschilds, in fact he tried to get ivanka to marry one of them, of course they refused as they see Trump as lower rank family, so he had to resort to the Kuchner. Trump is a puppet. God is in control of all of us including the evil ones. But trump for sure, he is doing nothing good for the world. Worst president in decades.
The Description of Trump match.I will be back after spiritual home work.Thanks for know.
tariffs protect USA economy, If chinese companies dont want to pay tariffs, they set up business within the USA creating jobs and making domestic producers competitive against cheaper foreign imports., Iran is not a backward country. it has existed as a civilisation for an extremely long time. I do not see how you can blame Trump for previous presidents allowing the chinese to ass-rape american companies for decades previously. Russia is iran’s ally as is China. USA has been getting spanked as the USD as reserve currency has been dropping in influence for a very very long time.
If you want to talk about economics then it aint Trump that got you into the mess with China. The New Development Bank supplies liquidity for investments on international scale
And the one belt road initiative has been progressing since well before Trump took office also.
#orangemanbad
p.s. tariffs are not a trade war. Sanctions are trade wars, and with USD down to around 50% from 95 percent in reserve currency backing, With Russia spanking your pigdog terrorists ISIS
yank pigdogs were shipping isis through the philipines and duterte kicked their asses as well.
USA new terrorist proxy force is SDF btw
“tariffs protect USA economy, If chinese companies dont want to pay tariffs, they set up business within the USA creating jobs and making domestic producers competitive against cheaper foreign imports.” —> that is completely NOT how the chineese reacted to the Trade-war, the chineese dropped their currency making products even cheaper to purchase to counter balance the tarrifs. And that happens to be very efficient tool against trade tarifs. Why will China set up business in the US where the labour is so much higher than at home ? To by pass the tarrifs? It is cheaper for chineese companies to stay at home with super cheap labour available than moving to the US where the US government is unfriendly to most chineese companies. Did you see what happened to Huawei in the US? Dont you think other Chineese companies will see that and take note, to never move to the US for business but always operate from home as a protection from US illegal meddling in global companies. What the US did to Huawei, they did it to many EU companies, right before they were purchased by US companies, that is how to they try to conquer other global companies (arcelor-mittal and plenty other exemples). But that is another topic. The US has pushed an agenda called “globalization” and for a long time people have warned against this phenomenon, and now the US is paying the price of that “bad” policy, globalization is dangerous for local economies, and do not contribute to sharing wealth to the full lenght of the local population. As jobs move to locations where wages are lower, to produce for cheaper price. So capital is free to move, but when it comes to labour, they arent so free to move, that is the biggest flaw in globalization, where capital holders and the biggest profiteers of this and labour the biggest loser, as wages stagnates and capital is moved where labour is cheaper, leaving many others jobless and industrial cities becoming ghost towns. China will not and china cannot anyway make US products cheaper than other foreign countries by moving there. China will not move in the US (see huawei story) and even if it does it cannot make the US more competitive because of high paid wages. High paid wages is what makes the US uncompetitive in a globalized world, so China doesnt have a magick wand to make it drop and be competitive. In a globalized world, China is winning the race, the uncompetent, unqualified past US administrations are what caused this sorrow on the US economy not chineese companies. Globalization is bad, and has been bad for local economy but the US pushed for it anyway because in the beginning they were benefitting from it, but today is a different world, it is a multipolar world (no more monopolar post soviet fall) where others are cheap with top technology, so today the US is suffering from that same policy it pushed to the world (globalization).
USA created ISIS well before trump got into power
Trump used the Saudis and emiratis to keep the supply of weapons flowing (saudi finances, the US manufacture and delivers weapons through serbia which Russia have proved) to the terrorists cells. Plus he added 8 new bases east Euphrates in Syria where he said he is going to withdraw. Worst, he is letting the zionist-scums use his syrian bases and iraki bases to hit “iranian targets” where they are army units to fight against isis cells that were armed by the US, and the funded by the saudis. You see the crooked Trump here ? Double speech, double game, he is the definition of deception. Qanon is a mossad op, and always will be. I will not fall not even one second for that lie. It was created to make sure he gets a 2nd term.
Military Industrial Complex runs USA foreign policy. not the President. This is the first president in about 30 years that hasnt started a new war in his first 3 yrs in office
You dont think Military Industrial Complex will just execute trump if he pushes back too hard?
the new terrorist proxy force of the USDA is the SDF. it absorbed all ISIS commanders etc
trump will get a second term because of his domestic policy
Trump will get a 2nd term because the Dems cant find an alternative candidat. They do not have anyone the public can trust.
i know what Trump has done but you missed my point. ISIS was created well before Trump got into power.
how do you propose he fights the military industrial complex then?
Executive order to bar dual citizens to work for the government or hold a postion of power. Not even contractors or subcontractors. Hunt down all the Mossad agents, and dual israeli citizens working for the CIA, execute them for high treason and the perpetration of 9/11. Switch to Gold standard and deem the national debt illegal as it is illegal, see Icelandic model and apply. Send 15 interceptor/attack subs to Israel’s shore as they will try to call for a Samson Option. Tell them we will shoot all of them if you launch and we will obliterate your 400km long and 70 km wide stollen land. Just dont be like JFK and decide to wave at your population on a convertible while going against deepstate. While these operations are going only the fake Trump/double/lookalike should be seen publicly, too dangerous. Then yea we will be cleaning the swamp.
BRICS economies are moving to gold backed currencies as USD falls as a reserve currency. its a bit late for US to switch from fiat
Why is it too late, the US still holds the biggest gold reserve in the world (8000+ tons) that reserve jumped when irak and libya have fallen, 1st thing they jacked was Ghaddafi’s and Saddam’s gold reserves, Syria was looted of its gold as well isis helped the US steal all what they found at various Syrian central banks. It is not too late to switch to Gold standard, and deem the present national debt to zio-scums illegal, unconstitutional, and against moral of having people printing money out of thin air then charging interest over it. With the Gold standard in place, the biggest losers will be the Rothschilds and their Federal reserve minions. They should all be in jail for a scheme so huge that it enslaved its own population and made its own government a puppet of the the Federal reserve’s owners. It is never too late to clean the swamp and clean house. The sooner it starts the sooner things get better for everyone. Iceland did something we should all learn from, they deemed their national debt illegal and jailed the bankers, rewritten the constitution online in 14 days then adopted it, now they are flourishing like never before. Despite MSM efforts to stay away of this story, it is one of the best exemple of Democracy ever witnessed by man-kind.
i remember something about iceland a few yrs back about that, might look into it again. in the USA military industrial complex runs foreign policy. would be easier to just put a bullet in trumps head if he meets them head on. lots of bought and blackmailed us politicians
That happened in 2012 for Iceland. Politicians cant clean any swamps, only the President can do it, since they are part of the swamp too. If Trump wants really to clean house, they are ways to do it, and do it quickly, surround himself with real Patriots, and defend their President for the Constitution and for their Nation. If he is too scared to take a bullet in his head he is not fit for the job for cleaning the swamp. Just look at the Houthis, and ask yourself if they are scared to take a bullet in their head. That’s real nationalism, you need to be ready to die for your people, nation, constitution, orelse he is working for the dark side, and achieving Israel first agenda.
a lot of Trumps casualties so far has been because he gave them enough rope. he seems genuine
I want to see him as genuine, but too many clues/facts that he is just another israel first zionist puppet that listens directly or indirectly to his masters the money changers/printers Rothschilds and co.
supporting israel doesnt automatically make him a zionist puppet. And it doesnt make me a zionist for keeping faith with Trump. Trump being a zionist is just ONE point that people just keep repeating then looking for clues with anything he does related with israel. netanyahu is a cunt. doesnt mean i think all israelis or zionists are cunts as well. Do I have to follow the same football team as trump and agree with everything he believes before i believe him?? I agree with enough of what he says and does so far
Israelis are mostly criminals, thugs, fanatics, terrorists, psychopaths, paranoids… and much more. Supporting them is being in the same team as them. And for Trump to continue his job as Israeli agent, he needs to show them support like he does. He offered them the golan, jerusalem as capital, unconditional support on illegal raids on Syria, tons of money a day (10 millions $ /day from US taxpayers), state of the art equipment (they operated F35’s before anyone) and now he is hinting at allowing the new israHelli gov. To annexe the West bank, doesnt matter who runs their gov. Even the presence of US soldiers in irak, Syria and the ME is to please their israeli masters. Not to forget a lot of rich US citizens are also israelis, the support that comes to senate and congress is from zionist are mostly israeli and saudis. To sum up, money talks, bullshit walks. He can talk all day long about “cleaning the swamp” or his intentions to “move out from syria”, what we see and judge, is where the money (for his support and for the support of congress/senate) comes from, to understand where their foreign policy will go towards. So you can support him, but as an American citizen, you have pretty much no choice, all the rest seems/looks even more rotten/corrupt than Trump. That is why i understand your support for Trump, however, he still evil, very far from picture of the “Hero of the people” or “swamp cleaner” that he tries portray.
have said before as far as foreign policy goes, trump might as well put on a dress and call himself hillary. He is the fist president in something like 4 decades that hasnt started a new conflict within the first three yrs of his term. but anyhow, you hate trump, i dont. conversation is fucking boring
I dont hate Trump. I want to believe in him, but the facts do not lie. You see what is in front of you with an objective eye, and what you see is a zionist front man. Who financed Trump when he went bankrupt ? A rothschild’s (intermediary-frontman). —-> “he is the first President in something like 4 decades that hasnt started a new conflict within 3 years of his term” -yes Trump didnt start a new conflict. However, he introced heavy sanctions and deprived millions of people of important first necessities in many countries and that my friend it has killed many many innocents and poor citizens of these affected countries by the sanctions: – Yemen -Venuzuela -North Korea – Iran You do not realize but the sanctions have already killed many weak poor citizens of these countries. And previous sanctions on irak have killed 1 to 1.5 millions poor and weak irakis. Here is a quote from an article :
Collective punishment: – “Between 1 million and 1.5 million Iraqis have died from malnutrition or inadequate health care resulting from economic sanctions, said Halliday…… the United Nations Security Council member states … are maintaining a program of economic sanctions deliberately, knowingly killing thousands of Iraqis each month. And that definition fits genocide,” Halliday said.” (Former UN official says sanctions against Iraq amount to ‘genocide’, By Mark Siegal, Cornell University Chronicle, October 1, 1999)
– “Signs of starvation and death in North Korea indicate that US diplomatic strategy works fine, says the secretary of state…. “over a 100 North Korean fishing boats that have drifted into Japanese waters. Two-thirds of the people on those boats have died,” Tillerson said….. “[The North Korean fishermen] are being sent in the wintertime to fish because there are food shortages. And they are being sent out to fish with inadequate fuel to get back. So we are getting a lot of evidence that these [sanctions] are really starting to hurt.” (Dying North Koreans a sign US diplomatic strategy works, Tillerson says, RT, 19 Jan, 2018)
– “The analysis, compiled by Mark Weisbrot and Jeffrey Sachs at the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR), found that the sanctions have increased hunger, disease, mortality, have displaced millions of Venezuelans and exacerbated the country’s economic crisis. Overall, the report says the measures have caused “very serious harm to human life and health, including an estimated more than 40,000 deaths” between 2017 and 2018….. The sanctions in fact “fit the definition of collective punishment of the civilian population” as described by the Geneva and Hague conventions, as well as being “illegal under international law.” (Civilians are the real victims (and targets) of Trump’s Venezuela sanctions, RT, 25 Apr, 2019),
So even tho he didnt start any conflict, he did inflict the harshest sanctions, that had the same effect as a kinetic war, the destruction of poor/weak citizens of those countries. It is called “Collective punishments”.
I want to see Trump as a patriot, but the more i dig the more i see a ZioNazi front man. Hilary is worst, Bidden could be as bad
Yikes Kikes.
Being an egomaniac and narcissist, is a drug for itself. And bombing Syria for his ego, and being declared “presidential” by the MSM does more harm that if he would smoke or drink a beer in the evening. Pressure gets out somehow. Some choose to let others pay like the Donald did. Others choose to deal withit themselves and themselves, before they harm others.
syria got bombed because the military industrial complex still runs US foreign policy. and i think you missed my point. That Mossad wont be able to blackmail this current US president as they have previous presidents for so many decades. trump is the best thing that happened to the USA in decades. And you have no valid examples of a better candidate. or ‘presidential hopeful’
The filthy Jew scum are out of control and have repeatedly humiliated the rednecks by making even the lardass Americunts look dumber than shit. It is ironic that the Jew pigs live off deadbeat Americunt taxpayers largesse and then spy on the dumbass orange fat moron who is their slave anyway. The filthy Jews are the real fifth column for any country they infest. This pestilence has to be wiped out if humanity is to survive.
Israel is the worst ally or enemy We The American People have ever had. They are enemies to the Constitution and must be confronted and arrested and prosecuted. Trade embargo must be applied and limited strikes must be conducted upon Israels illegal nuclear weapons program. Israels chemical and biological weapons must also be dismantled through military force. https://dailystormer.name
ahh now why Bolton canned
Even a casual glance around the world will see Jews behind every illegal activity, crime and wars. This little nasty cabal is a threat to humanity historically and now is totally out of control. Fumigation is in order.
Readers might enjoy this on the subject of Israel’s spying:
https://chuckmanwordsincomments.wordpress.com/2019/09/12/john-chuckman-comment-american-counterintelligence-says-israel-has-been-eavesdropping-on-the-white-house-israel-denies-it-but-israels-record-for-telling-the-truth-is-deplorable-and-it-has-a-histo/
I am biggest critic of Trump. But please give Trump chance he will get rid of this Zionist warmongers and interlink within White House.
Soon Pompeo will leave and Satanyahu will be barred from White House.Eventually Trump will meet Rouhani and there will be good inter action.This trouble Satanyahu who is greedy and selfish. Trump will help North Korea to become independent Christian state.
Trump does good and bad thinks but that’s how the Holy spirit leads him.One thing which I admires and appreciates from Trump is at least he stands up for white people.Because there is no black country which protect the white peoples existance.
Trump could have leave Syria long time ago but Bolton and Pompeo with the sideline of Satanyahu came up with lies and block withdrawal.
Trump is not smart like Putin but the difference is Trump is chosen by God.Trump wants to leave Syria in the hands of Russia but Israel and Turkey doesnt want.Trump likes North Korea leader and Iran but enemies within does not want peace.Give my critic Donald Trump chance.
Trump is a puppet, nothing more than a puppet. Trump doesnt know the holy ghost, his previous history if mobbing, extortion, theft, none payment of service done on his behalf, a history of a bad Christian. He has the spirit of satan deceiving him, as he worships the generals of satan the Rothschilds. Nettanyahu is a puppet too, he takes orders and executes. They are bigger players with much more power in the world, and those players are not known to the public. Trump is and always will be a Rothschild’s front man, just like nettanyahu and all the other leaders the West (Macron, Johnson, Merkel….)
Mr. Ceaser Polar what you said about fat fuck Trump and pumpets is very true.Their are evil.But in the spiritual realm God really wants to use this foolish racist guy.