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People are scared: Paranoia seizes Trumps White House
‘People are scared’: Paranoia seizes Trump’s White House
Staffers are leaving their phones at home, using secret apps and monitoring each other’s social media.
By Alex Isenstadt and Kenneth P. Vogel
03/15/17 05:13 AM EDT
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Some rank-and-file White House aides, meanwhile, have become convinced that intelligence agents may be monitoring their phone calls, emails, and text messages. Those fears intensified last week when WikiLeaks released a trove of CIA documents outlining how the agency can break into phones and computers.
In an interview, one White House aide described the elaborate steps he was taking to shield himself. Once he gets home in the evening, he turns off his work phone and stores it in a drawer because, he said, he believes it could be used to listen to him even when it’s off. If he makes a call during off-hours, he uses a separate, personal phone in an adjoining room, where the stowed work device wouldn’t be able to pick up his voice as clearly.
The fact that so much sensitive information from the White House was making its way to news outlets, he said, had raised suspicions that national security officials were listening in.
“I’m paranoid,” said the aide. “Anything significant seems to be on the front page the next day.”
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“I wouldn't call it paranoia under the circumstances,” said a Republican who communicates with many administration aides through encrypted apps. “It’s not paranoia if people really are out to get you, and everybody actually is out to get everyone else.”
Link: http://www.politico.com/story/2017/03/trump-white-house-paranoia-236069
Staffers are leaving their phones at home, using secret apps and monitoring each other’s social media.
By Alex Isenstadt and Kenneth P. Vogel
03/15/17 05:13 AM EDT
...snip
Some rank-and-file White House aides, meanwhile, have become convinced that intelligence agents may be monitoring their phone calls, emails, and text messages. Those fears intensified last week when WikiLeaks released a trove of CIA documents outlining how the agency can break into phones and computers.
In an interview, one White House aide described the elaborate steps he was taking to shield himself. Once he gets home in the evening, he turns off his work phone and stores it in a drawer because, he said, he believes it could be used to listen to him even when it’s off. If he makes a call during off-hours, he uses a separate, personal phone in an adjoining room, where the stowed work device wouldn’t be able to pick up his voice as clearly.
The fact that so much sensitive information from the White House was making its way to news outlets, he said, had raised suspicions that national security officials were listening in.
“I’m paranoid,” said the aide. “Anything significant seems to be on the front page the next day.”
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“I wouldn't call it paranoia under the circumstances,” said a Republican who communicates with many administration aides through encrypted apps. “It’s not paranoia if people really are out to get you, and everybody actually is out to get everyone else.”
Link: http://www.politico.com/story/2017/03/trump-white-house-paranoia-236069
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