,
5 tweets,
2 min read
Read on Twitter
I overheard this on @Lawrence, too, and assumed that Bezos must suspect a foreign government intelligence agency–most likely Saudi Arabia.
Then I remembered the horrifying, but somehow forgotten story of Jeffrey Rambo. nytimes.com/2018/06/24/bus…
Then I remembered the horrifying, but somehow forgotten story of Jeffrey Rambo. nytimes.com/2018/06/24/bus…
To wit: nytimes.com/2018/06/24/bus… 
In other words, the Trump administration, or perhaps Trump-loyal rogue security service guys, have already committed wild privacy abuses on the order of what Bezos apparently suspects, and used the information to blackmail a reporter.
Because Trump is an unceasing crook, and because Washington media got wrapped around the axle by the gossipy aspect and professional implications of the Watkins-Wolfe, this scandal got flushed down the memory hole almost immediately. But it happened.
On that basis alone, I think Bezos would not be crazy to suspect something similar happened here–if in fact that's what he suspects.
