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Feb 8 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Wow. Did NYPD lie to me?

I filed a FOIA request in 2020 seeking "All email correspondence with the keywords "Westbridge Technologies", or "NSO Group" including attachments, from 1st January 2015..."

NYPD said they were "unable to locate records responsive to your request."
In the spirit of transparency, here is my FOIA
Here's their response: "In regard to the document(s) which you requested, this unit is unable to locate records responsive to your request based on the information you provided."
a860-openrecords.nyc.gov/request/view/F…
Terrific reporting by @josephfcox - essentially confirming that Pegasus and Phantom are the same thing and that Westbridge is the US arm of NSO.

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Feb 7
A bombshell report out of Israel says that Israeli police used NSO Group's Pegasus to spy on businessmen, activists, journalists, politicians, and even Prime Minister Netanyahu's family.

calcalist.co.il/local_news/art…
It's remarkable.

Netanyahu made Pegasus a cornerstone of his diplomacy, signing billion-dollar deals with Pegasus secretly tucked in, to warm relations in the Middle East and elsewhere.

Back at home, the police were spying on his family using... Pegasus.
Absolutely despicable. Israeli police used Pegasus spyware to spy on disabled activists. (Google Translate)
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Feb 5
Following reports of multiple people shot at a hookah bar near Virginia Tech. Large police presence amid reports of potentially further shots fired.
Virginia Tech is sheltering in place
Scanner traffic is usually not accurate. Not many updates at all from any official sources.
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Feb 2
Some sort of massive US-coalition air-raid/ground operation happening in NW Syria right now:
Something like this does not happen often. There are only a few possibilities... Targeting of a senior ISIS or Al Qaeda official or hostage rescue.
Massive firefight and unconfirmed reports of coalition casualties.
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Jan 29
Did NSO Group CEO Shalev Hulio lie under oath?
From a different declaration, "NSO’s Pegasus technology cannot be used against U.S. mobile phone numbers."

Again, Hulio couched this in interesting language. What the FBI bought was called Phantom but appears to just be repackaged Pegasus...
If the "technology" of Pegasus and Phantom are the same, it appears like Hulio may have lied here too.

Not to mention the clear omission of evidence regarding Phantom.
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Jan 24
I’m so glad this is becoming mainstream. The only people apparently not hearing this message are the folks at the White House and on the Hill.

Sanction. The. Oligarchs.
Tell Yuri Milner and Alisher Usmanov that they can’t invest in Silicon Valley anymore and see what happens.
Tell Roman Abramovich he can’t go skiing in Snowmass anymore
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Jan 20
BREAKING: The FBI is probing a Russian cybersecurity firm that allegedly has major clients in the US. There are concerns that the company's products could be a backdoor for Russian intelligence. I spoke with more than a dozen sources over 6 months:

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Infotecs was founded by Andrey CHAPCHAEV, a former senior KGB research official who is still the largest shareholder. The company has numerous licenses with Russian intelligence and Russian state bodies. The licenses are not shown on the English version of the website...
In Sept 2018, the US Commerce Department put Infotecs on an export ban list, saying that Infotecs was had “enabled the activities of malicious Russian cyber actors.”

Still, Infotecs had an active US presence...
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