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How Israel Spies on Us All through the NSA
July 1, 2013The very same Israeli agents who had prior knowledge of the false-flag terror attacks of 9-11 - and who owned the electronic messaging system that was used to warn Israelis to avoid the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001 - are behind the NSA's illegal and secret tapping of our phone calls. Is this just a coincidence or is it the conspicuous tip of Israel's criminal operations in the United States?
The latest revelations from Edward Snowden that the NSA is spying on the European Union is Der Spiegel's current cover story.
"If
it is true that EU representations in Brussels and Washington were
indeed tapped by the American Secret Service, it can hardly be explained
with the argument of fighting terrorism."
- German Justice Minister Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger
A current report in Der Spiegel says
that the National Security Agency (NSA) has bugged European Union (EU)
offices and gained access to its internal computer networks. It also
reports that the U.S. spy agency taps half a billion phone calls,
emails, and text messages in Germany in a typical month.- German Justice Minister Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger
"If the media reports are correct, this brings to memory actions among enemies during the Cold War. It goes beyond any imagination that our friends in the United States view the Europeans as enemies," German Justice Minister Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger said. As the German justice minister said, such spying “can hardly be explained with the argument of fighting terrorism.”
To understand how and why the NSA spies on Europeans and Americans I recommend reading The Shadow Factory: The Ultra-Secret NSA from 9/11 to the Eavesdropping on America (2008) by James Bamford. The chapter that I found most interesting was “Wiretappers” in which Bamford discusses the Israeli connections to the NSA. This chapter describes how two Israeli companies are at the center of the illegal tapping of our phone calls and email and focuses on Jacob “Kobi” Alexander, the Israeli criminal behind one of them.
It is amazing that patriotic Americans like Bradley Manning and Edward Snowden are hounded to the end of the Earth and prosecuted for their whistle-blowing actions to shed light on illegal activity, while the Israeli criminals, like Kobi Alexander, who are actually behind the criminal activity, are allowed to flee with their ill-gotten gains.
Kobi Alexander, the Israeli criminal behind Verint, is tied to the terror attacks of 9-11. Why did the FBI allow him to send $57 million of stolen money to Israel and flee from justice while he was under investigation in June 2006? How does one wire $57 million to a foreign bank without the federal government knowing?
What is most telling about the bizarre relationship between Israel and the NSA (and FBI) is that those who expose the criminal activity are treated as criminals while the foreign intelligence service that is spying on Americans is completely ignored. The fact that Israeli intelligence has secret access to all our private communications means that it is able to use blackmail and other methods to control our politicians. Such criminal tactics may explain why criticism of Israel is so rare in Washington, D.C.
It is important to understand how the Israeli connection to the NSA gives the Israeli secret service access to all of the data that comes through the massive collection of our private phone calls and email. The Israeli hardware and software at the center of this spying give the Israelis access to all of this data in the same way that having an Israeli security company working at our airports gives them the keys to the back-doors.
As James Bamford wrote in a 2012 article for Wired.com:
According
to a former Verizon employee briefed on the program, Verint, owned by
Comverse Technology, taps the communication lines at Verizon, which I
first reported in my book The Shadow Factory in 2008… At
AT&T the wiretapping rooms are powered by software and hardware from
Narus, now owned by Boeing, a discovery made by AT&T whistleblower
Mark Klein in 2004… What is especially troubling is that both companies
have had extensive ties to Israel, as well as links to that country’s
intelligence service, a country with a long and aggressive history of
spying on the U.S.
In
fact, according to Binney, the advanced analytical and data mining
software the NSA had developed for both its worldwide and international
eavesdropping operations was secretly passed to Israel by a mid-level
employee, apparently with close connections to the country. The
employee, a technical director in the Operations Directorate, “who was a
very strong supporter of Israel,” said Binney, “gave, unbeknownst to
us, he gave the software that we had, doing these fast rates, to the
Israelis.”
…
But Binney now suspects that Israeli intelligence in turn passed the
technology on to Israeli companies who operate in countries around the
world, including the U.S. In return, the companies could act as
extensions of Israeli intelligence and pass critical military, economic
and diplomatic information back to them. “And then five years later,
four or five years later, you see a Narus device,” he said. “I think
there’s a connection there, we don’t know for sure.”
- James Bamford, “Shady Companies with Ties to Israel Wiretap the U.S. for the NSA,” Wired.com, April 3, 2012
The following extracts are from the chapter “Wiretappers” from The Shadow Factory,
Bamford’s 2008 book. The chapter explains how the Israelis have access
to the stored data that has been collected by the NSA and describes some
of the things they can do with it, such as using our digital
voice-print to find all of our recorded telephone calls:- James Bamford, “Shady Companies with Ties to Israel Wiretap the U.S. for the NSA,” Wired.com, April 3, 2012
While
such tools as DCS-1000 [Carnivore] and CIPAV are used on a small number
of select targets, Verint and Narus are superintrusive – conducting
mass surveillance on both international and domestic communications
24/7. What is especially troubling, but little known, is that both
companies have extensive ties to a foreign country, Israel, as well as
links to that country’s intelligence service – a service with a long
history of aggressive spying against the U.S.
Equally
troubling, the founder and former chairman of one of the companies is
now a fugitive, wanted by the FBI on nearly three dozen charges of
fraud, theft, lying, bribery, money laundering, and other crimes.
Although there has long been Congressional oversight of the telecom
industry, there is virtually no oversight of the companies hired to do
the bugging.
Verint
was founded by a former Israeli intelligence officer, Jacob Alexander,
who often goes by the nickname “Kobi.” His father, Zvi Alexander, was a
wealthy Israeli oil baron and an international wheeler-dealer who ended
up running the country’s state-owned oil company. To win drilling
franchises, he would make political payments to African cabinet
ministers, often in partnership with the U.S. tax cheat Marc Rich, who
became a fugitive and was given sanctuary in Israel. (p. 238)
Thus,
by 2004, a large percentage of America’s – and the world’s – voice and
data communications were passing through wiretaps built, installed, and
maintained by a small, secretive Israeli company run by former Israeli
military and intelligence officers. Even more unnerving is the fact that
Verint can automatically access the mega-terabytes of stored and
real-time data secretly and remotely from anywhere, including Israel.
(p. 241)
While
Verint can provide mass interception of data and phone calls, one of
its Israeli spinoffs, PerSay, can go one step further and offer
“advanced voice mining.” The company, based in Tel Aviv, employs a
system “that efficiently searches for a target’s voice within a large
volume of intercepted calls, regardless of the conversation content or
method of communication.” Thus, with remote access to the internal and
international voice and data communications of over one hundred
countries around the world, including the United States, Verint’s
headquarters in Tel Aviv has a capability rivaled only by the NSA’s, if
not greater, especially when coupled with PerSay’s voice-mining
capability. (p. 242)
The
agency responsible for worldwide eavesdropping in Israel is the
hypersecret Unit 8200, that country’s NSA… Having both trained alumni of
the organization and sophisticated eavesdropping equipment developed by
Unit 8200 in foreign countries would be an enormous intelligence
windfall, should Israel be able to harness it. Retired Brigadier General
Hanan Gefen, a former commander of Unit 8200, noted his former
organization’s influence on Comverse, which owns Verint, as well as the
other Israeli companies that dominate the U.S. eavesdropping and
surveillance market. (p. 243)
Nevertheless,
despite the fact that many of the NSA’s and the Pentagon’s sensitive
communications – like those of the rest of the country – travel across
the tapping equipment of Verint and Narus, their links to Israel seem to
have slipped below the radar. (p. 244)
Thus,
virtually the entire American telecommunications system is bugged by
two Israeli-formed companies with possible ties to Israel’s
eavesdropping agency – with no oversight by Congress.
Also
troubling are Verint’s extremely close ties to the FBI’s central
wiretapping office, known as the CALEA Implementation Section (CIS). (p.
246)
Unknown
to the public, an entire national telecom network was channeled through
a powerful foreign-made bug controlled by a corrupt foreign-based
company with close links to a foreign electronic spy agency. As of 2008,
the bug was still there and the only thing that had changed was a
reshuffling of the company’s top management. (p. 252)
Sources and Recommended Reading:"How the NSA Targets Germany and Europe," Der Spiegel, July 1, 2013
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/secret-documents-nsa-targeted-germany-and-eu-buildings-a-908609.html
“Shady Companies with Ties to Israel Wiretap the U.S. for the NSA” by James Bamford, Wired.com, April 3, 2012
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/04/shady-companies-nsa/all/
"The Israeli Criminals Behind the NSA Spy Scandal" by Christopher Bollyn, Bollyn.com, June 13, 2013
http://www.bollyn.com/the-israeli-companies-behind-the-nsa-spy-scandal/
The Shadow Factory: The Ultra-Secret NSA from 9/11 to the Eavesdropping on America by James Bamford, Doubleday, 2008
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