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Real0ne -> Phone Tapping Scandal, Monica Lewinski & CodeName "Mega"? (8/20/2007 10:56:22 PM)
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Ok.... i just stumbled across this. So whats going on here? We have phones that are set up to be tapped. We have the patriot act? What does this mean? Should we be alarmed, or doesnt it matter? Think this might have some bearing on it?
I have looked up much of what it says in this first article and referenced just a few below and in each case got 100,000's to well over a million hits.
Is this what we want our tax dollars to pay for? Does this raise anyones eyebrows?
What follows is the original article I wrote when the news story first broke regarding the existence of a system to tap into any phone in America built into the surveillance system used by law enforcement authorities. Several cases were cited where investigations ranging from drug running and money laundering had been compromised by leaks from the company that operated the phone taps as well as phone data from an associated company that handles billing services for almost every phone in America.
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Israel, purportedly our friend, has been spying on us all. And we're not talking about individual spooks like Jonathan Pollard, or small-time networks such as the 140 Israelis arrested by the FBI prior to 9/11, or the 60 arrested since (including 5 arrested who were cheering and celebrating as the World Trade Towers collapsed).
It turns out that Israel has had a potential wiretap on every phone in America for years, along with the ability to monitor and record who any person is calling, anywhere in America; information of great value even if one does not listen to the calls themselves. Amdocs, Inc. the company which sub contracts billing anddirectory services for phone companies around the world, including 90 percent of American phone companies, is owned by Israeli interests. Yet another company, Comverse Infosys, is suspected of having built a "back door" into the equipment permanently installed into the phone system that allows instant eavesdropping by law enforcement agencies on any phone in America. This includes yours.
Concerns about allowing an Israeli company such intimate access to the infrastructure go back many years. As reported by Fox News, the Israeli company Amdocs was implicated in the leaking of police phone data that resulted in the collapse of on investigation into a massive drug and credit card fraud operation with Israeli connections.
Mother Of All Scandals!
http://www.fpp.co.uk/BoD/Mossad/
DC Press Release:
JDL Pleads Guilty to Bomb Plot Against US Congressman
Washington, DC, February 6--Earl Leslie Krugel, member of the Jewish Defense
League (JDL), pleaded guilty to one count of carrying an explosive device in
connection with a conspiracy to bomb the office of California Congressman
http://newsmine.org/archive/war-on-terror/israel/mossad/jdl-guilty-bomb-plot-congressman.txt
Payvand's Iran News
JDL Pleads Guilty to Bomb Plot Against US Congressman
Yes, while the mainstream media dutifully reported every lurid detail about semen stains on black dresses and the President's amorous use of a cigar, it managed to ignore one of the most newsworthy parts of Lewinsky's testimony. As Steinberg put it, Lewinsky testified that "the President had warned her, on March 29, 1997, at the height of the Mega hunt, that he suspected the White House telephones were being tapped by agents of an unnamed foreign country." That country, according to unnamed U.S. government officials cited by both Steinberg and Waller/Rodriguez, was Israel.
Furthermore, it appears that the Israelis had both the means and the opportunity to penetrate the White House communications system. According to Steinberg, the system was overhauled and modernized during the early years of the Clinton administration, and "one of the main outside contractors involved in the project was an Israeli firm, Amdocs." [For more on Amdocs, see the "I-Spies" article.] It should be noted that neither the firm nor its employees have been charged with or proven to have any involvement in espionage.
The compromise of White House communications was "more than just a technical blunder," a source with detailed knowledge of White House security issues told Walker and Rodriguez. It was "a very serious security failure with unimaginable consequences." How did it happen? Echoing criticism now being leveled at the Clinton administration
Ironically, Shelby himself was among the first snared in the Justice Department's new anti-leaking dragnet. In the summer of 2004, the FBI recommended that the Senate Ethics Committee investigate Shelby for leaking two National Security Agency (NSA) intercepts received before the September 11 attacks to Fox News and CNN in 2002. These were the famous messages that warned, "The match begins tomorrow" and "Tomorrow is zero hour."
But the senator from Alabama was not the only one. According to a government source, the Pentagon's National Criminal Investigative division began probes in 2002--with FBI guidance--to determine who leaked secret war plans to The New York Times and The Washington Post in June 2002. At the State Department, diplomatic security launched an investigation into David Wurmser, an aide to John Bolton, for leaking a letter from Secretary of State Colin Powell to the Pentagon objecting to the Syria Accountability Act. The letter ended up being the basis for a story in The Jerusalem Post. And the White House knows all too well the problems it faces from special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald, who has yet to bring charges against the official who told journalist Robert Novak that Valerie Plame was a CIA officer. Fitzgerald has already sent New York Times reporter Judith Miller to jail for not revealing her source for a story about Plame that she never ended up writing. But McNulty's novel prosecution of Rosen and Weissman in many ways provides the legal test case for Ashcroft's new get-tough policy.
Mega Mole Hunt
Code Name "Mega"
From the indictment, it appears that the two aipac officials came to the attention of the FBI at least as far back as 1999, when both lobbyists showed up in intercepted phone conversations and meetings with Israeli embassy officials. The FBI has never said publicly why it began monitoring the lobbyists' activities, but the reason may have to do with the hunt for an Israeli spy code-named "Mega." In 1997, The Washington Post was leaked a story alleging that the NSA had intercepted a communication from an Israeli intelligence officer in Washington to his superior in Tel Aviv. The Israeli agent was reportedly relaying a request from the Israeli ambassador to use a source called Mega to procure a copy of a letter detailing what assurances then-Secretary of State Warren Christopher had offered Yasir Arafat in light of the withdrawal of Israeli troops from Hebron.
TROUBLE FOR JOURNALISTS. Low Clearance
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