Saudi Arabia 'had access' to Jeff Bezos' phone: Investigator drops bombshell allegation against the

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Raw Story

Saudi Arabia ‘had access’ to Jeff Bezos’ phone: Investigator drops bombshell allegation against the Middle East kingdom
BOB BRIGHAM
30 MAR 2019 AT 18:03 ET

Renowned celebrity private investigator Gavin De Becker “concluded with high confidence” that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia had access to the cell phone of Amazon founder and Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos.

In a new column published by The Daily Beast, De Becker laid out what he learned in his investigation into how the Nationale Enquirer published salacious details of Bezos’ private life.

“Our investigators and several experts concluded with high confidence that the Saudis had access to Bezos’ phone, and gained private information,” De Becker wrote. “We did not reach our conclusions lightly.”

“The inquiry included a broad array of resources: investigative interviews with current and former AMI executives and sources, extensive discussions with top Middle East experts in the intelligence community, leading cyber security experts who have tracked Saudi spyware, discussions with current and former advisers to President Trump, Saudi whistleblowers, people who personally know the Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman (also known as MBS), people who work with his close associate Saud al-Qahtani, Saudi dissidents, and other targets of Saudi action, including writer/activist Iyad el-Baghdadi,” he explained.



Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/2019/03/saudi-arabia-access-jeff-bezos-phone-investigator-drops-bombshell-allegation-middle-east-kingdom/

[Kurt V.]

1. AMI is deep in this.

[leftieNanner]

2. You beat me to this post

I just read the report. Scary. It may turn out that Trump, Kushner, and the Saudis are more compromised even than with Russia. Wow!

[DeminPennswoods]

23. Yes!

Kushner is in it up to his eyes, probably over his head by now. If any of the Trump family has committed treason, my bet would be on Jared.

[DBoon]

3. original Daily Beast article

https://www.thedailybeast.com/jeff-bezos-investigation-finds-the-saudis-obtained-his-private-information

[irisblue]

4. Bezos Investigation Finds the Saudis Obtained His Private Data Gavin De Becker 03.30.19

source--https://www.thedailybeast.com/jeff-bezos-investigation-finds-the-saudis-obtained-his-private-information


snip--"Our investigators and several experts concluded with high confidence that the Saudis had access to Bezos’ phone, and gained private information.”
We did not reach our conclusions lightly. The inquiry included a broad array of resources: investigative interviews with current and former AMI executives and sources, extensive discussions with top Middle East experts in the intelligence community, leading cyber security experts who have tracked Saudi spyware, discussions with current and former advisers to President Trump, Saudi whistleblowers, people who personally know the Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman (also known as MBS), people who work with his close associate Saud al-Qahtani, Saudi dissidents, and other targets of Saudi action, including writer/activist Iyad el-Baghdadi.

Experts with whom we consulted confirmed New York Times reports on the Saudi capability to “collect vast amounts of previously inaccessible data from smartphones in the air without leaving a trace—including phone calls, texts, emails”—and confirmed that hacking was a key part of the Saudi’s “extensive surveillance efforts that ultimately led to the killing of [Washington Post] journalist Jamal Khashoggi.”


More at article

[Judi Lynn]

5. Nation braces for DOJ to 'indict a bunch of Saudi officials' if the kingdom did hack Jeff Bezos' pho

Nation braces for DOJ to ‘indict a bunch of Saudi officials’ if the kingdom did hack Jeff Bezos’ phone
BOB BRIGHAM
30 MAR 2019 AT 19:14 ET

Political prognosticators and pundits debated on Saturday the political implications of a bombshell report that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia had access to the cell phone of Amazon founder and Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos.

Famous private investigator Gavin de Becker, who had been retained by Bezos to investigate how the National Enquirer published salacious details of an extramarital affair, laid out the allegations in a column published by The Daily Beast.

“Our investigators and several experts concluded with high confidence that the Saudis had access to Bezos’ phone, and gained private information,” De Becker explained. “We did not reach our conclusions lightly.”

More:
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/03/nation-braces-doj-indict-bunch-saudi-officials-kingdom-hack-jeff-bezos-phone/

[tanyev]

10. And who, who, who might ask the Saudis to target Jeff Bezos???

Lookin’ at you, DOTUS.

[orangecrush]

13. +1

[ProudLib72]

15. But, but, but, his phone calls!

Fucking nitwit!

[AZ8theist]

21. Otherwise known as "Individual 1"...nt

[RockRaven]

6. I wonder if AMI's payment to the mistress's brother wasn't a smokescreen to obscure

the true source of the information. Or if AMI recruited him as a source after they already had what he could, potentially, also provide. Better to look like they paid off one private citizen than look like they conspired with a foreign government.

[OhNo-Really]

30. and/or the brother was part of the hacking

like maybe toying with Bezos phone to enable SA listening.

[Grasswire2]

7. The nexis of Trump, AMI, MBS and Kushner and Bezos is more than alarming. nt

[onit2day]

16. In response to Kushner giving Saudis secret Nuclear Tech and plans.

Whole Trump family bought and paid for traitors. Hope someone takes it all away, all their ill gotten gain.

[Grasswire2]

19. yeah but we won't get back the nuclear technology. nt

[catbyte]

8. Gee, I wonder how they got that?

[Yavin4]

9. Bill Barr says "no collusion". n/t

[OhNo-Really]

31. Let's skip collusion/conspiracy and just use the word Crime

Were no crimes committed?

Is Trump exonerated of CRIMES

[zentrum]

11. Now Bezos knows how

....it feels to have your private information hacked.

Hard to feel anything good for a guy who treats his workers so badly and who is destroying main street after main street across the globe and emptying out local store fronts.

[reACTIONary]

27. Amazon's over-all share of retail sales....

... is about 4% (2017). In contrast, Wal-Mart is the nation's leading retailer at about 7% (2017). Over all eCommerce was only about 10% of all retail Q4 2018.

"Main Street" crashed an burned during the 60's and early 70's with the advent of the The Mall - the creation of socialist Victor Gruen who was appalled by sprawl and created the Southdale Center in 1956 to oppose it.

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/03/amazon-grabbed-4-percent-of-all-us-retail-sales-in-2017-new-study.html
https://www.statista.com/statistics/195992/usa-retail-sales-of-the-top-50-retailers/
https://www.statista.com/statistics/443495/total-us-retail-sales/
https://ycharts.com/indicators/ecommerce_sales_as_percent_retail_sales
http://time.com/4865957/death-and-life-shopping-mall/

[zentrum]

32. That's not what local store

...owners tell me as they close down week after week up and down street after street in recent times.

NYC merchants and mom and pop's blame Amazon. Not malls. Big retailers might be able to compete and stay open but not these family businesses. They gave NY a sense of individual neighborhoods all through the 70's, 80's and up until just the last few years---and even just last week. Now it's empty store fronts.

It's a recent gutting.

[reACTIONary]

33. I think you are right that....

.... larger, more efficient retailers, coupled with better transportation and suburbanization might tend to drive smaller shops out of business. Online retail, even at only 10% of total retail, is part of that.

Pointing the finger at Amazon as THE culprit, however, doesn't seem to be supported by the facts. Walmart, the previous culprit, is still doing better than they are.

See you at the mall!

[SayItLoud]

12. And then there's the Kushner DEVIL BUILDING 666 Park Ave...and

a BILLION $ lease on a building that isn't worth shit as office space. Kushner's old man was a crook, his son in the Oral Office is a traitor and his other son sucked up to the Saudis.

Now they are getting NUKE intel from the US in return for 666 $ and now it appears the Bezo's hack.

[c-rational]

14. And yet more pieces fall into place. When will enough be enough for our corrupt regime.

[SleeplessinSoCal]

17. Maybe we have to demand no more pledging allegiance until we are back

to having a responsible Congress which attempts stopping the blatant corruption in the White House.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

18. Which sworn enemy of WaPo has most to gain from hack of Bezos? The criminal in Oval Office. . . nt

[Sherman A1]

24. That certainly is a valid question

to ask.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

20. Which sworn enemy of Bezos has tight connection with Nat Enquirer? Orange turd in Oval Office. . .nt

[ancianita]

22. Sickening, the geopolitical filth and vermin. I need a shower and new special counsel.

[DirtEdonE]

25. Nothing to see here

No collusion. No further indictments.

[LiberalArkie]

26. It is very easy to listen to any landline or cellular phone, all you need is CALEA access for the

particular telephone/cellular switch.

[riversedge]

28. Let the pieces continue to fall. Hope the WH is listening.