NEW: Washington Post owner @JeffBezos's phone was hacked by Saudi crown prince MBS. Trump's National Enquirer pals then published Bezos’s private texts.
Investigation shows that Bezos was targeted 5 months before Khashoggi's murder.
by @skirchy #Maddow bit.ly/3aBs4n5
Investigation shows that Bezos was targeted 5 months before Khashoggi's murder.
by @skirchy #Maddow bit.ly/3aBs4n5
@JeffBezos @skirchy Jeff Bezos's phone was “hacked” after receiving a WhatsApp message from MBS's personal account. The message is believed to have included a malicious file that infiltrated the phone. Large amounts of data were exfiltrated from Bezos’s phone within hours.
@JeffBezos @skirchy In 2018, MBS obtained new cyber warfare tools: “Once a phone is infected...full access to victim’s texts, photos–”
@JeffBezos @skirchy Two National Enquirer [AMI] sources said the catch & kill operations cemented a partnership between David Pecker & Trump, and subsequently, people close Trump introduced Pecker to funding sources for AMI, such as Saudi crown prince, MBS.
@JeffBezos @skirchy NEW: UN experts call for an inquiry into the hack of Bezos’ phone, drawing a direct line between the hack and Khashoggi’s killing.
Six months after the hack, Khashoggi was lured to the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, where he was murdered by Saudi agents.nyti.ms/36jw9Zz
Six months after the hack, Khashoggi was lured to the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, where he was murdered by Saudi agents.nyti.ms/36jw9Zz
@JeffBezos @skirchy WaPo owner Jeff Bezos received an encrypted video from MBS loaded with spyware that enabled surveillance of his phone starting in May 2018. At the time, the Saudi govt had grown critical of WaPo’s coverage of the kingdom, particularly, Khashoggi's work.
@JeffBezos @skirchy Saudi officials close to MBS said they knew of a plan to hack Bezos' phone but not of any blackmail attempts, and that Qahtani [MBS advisor implicated in Khashoggi's murder] was involved in the hacking as part of an intimidation campaign against Khashoggi.
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@JeffBezos @skirchy A midst “the Post’s essential and unrelenting coverage of the murder of its columnist Jamal Khashoggi,” MBS sent messages to Bezos [Nov 2018 and Feb 2019] containing info about Bezos' private life that wasn’t publicly available.
Sure sounds like blackmail.
Sure sounds like blackmail.
@JeffBezos @skirchy Bezos' head of security, Mar 2019: We studied the close relationship between MBS and David Pecker, head of AMI, which owns the Enquirer. That alliance includes Pecker bringing MBS advisor Kacy Grine to a private White House meeting with Trump and Kushner.
@JeffBezos @skirchy AMI sent a contract that required Bezos head of security, de Becker, make a public statement denying “any electronic eavesdropping or hacking” and threatened to publish the embarrassing photos if Bezos or de Becker “ever in their lives” suggested otherwise.
