There’s a still untold story about how Israel’s rise to sigint superpower, both on the military side and on the commercial side (Israeli firms writes a lot of the phone call billing software in the world, which presumably has back doors Unit 8200 can notice who Congressman X on the Foreign Affairs Committee is making booty calls to), seems to have something to do with the exodus of Soviet Jews from 1973 onward…
One of the clever things Glenn Greenwald did in stage-managing Edward Snowden was to downplay the Israel stuff. A lot of what Snowden revealed had been figured out before by guys like Carl Cameron and James Bamford, but they often mentioned the more flagrant Israel connections, which automatically sets off Crimestop warning sirens in American minds…
Here’s a question: Do you think Bibi didn’t know about the wiretap? Maybe all the “secret” information coming out of American tap on Bibi was kayfabe made up by Bibi…
Gotta wonder what the NSA has on Hillary and Bill. Even if they never spied on her directly, they no doubt picked up lots of chatter from foreign targets about the Clintons.
