If you read the article about the “Pegasus Project”, spyware created to infect cell phones that was marketed by Israeli intelligence through a company called NSO {Go Deep Here}, then you essentially know the background. Pegasus is “no click” targeting spyware that can be deployed against cellular phones, simply by inputting the phone number and transmitting to it.
The Guardian previously reported, “Claudio Guarnieri, who runs Amnesty International’s Security Lab, said once a phone was infected with Pegasus, a client of NSO could in effect take control of a phone, enabling them to extract a person’s messages, calls, photos and emails, secretly activate cameras or microphones, and read the contents of encrypted messaging apps such as WhatsApp, Telegram and Signal.”
Pegasus was deployed to target tens-of-thousands of cell phones by the people who Israel sold the spyware to. The Guardian, and a group of allied leftists in media, were previously granted access to a leaked batch of 50,000 phone numbers that the Pegasus software was operating in.
In a recent update from the New York Times they stated, “[it] has been used by police and intelligence services to hack the phones of drug kingpins and terrorists, but gained notoriety when it was revealed that governments, like Saudi Arabia, Mexico, Hungary and India, had deployed it against political dissidents, journalists and human rights workers.
It was also recently revealed the U.S. FBI under Director Chris Wray purchased the Pegasus program for “FBI experiments” and “exploration” into how the spyware program could be used domestically.
The FBI was initially reluctant to reveal their ownership of the Pegasus program, however, within FOIA documents related to the potential for domestic surveillance and concerns about fourth amendment constitutional protections, the FBI admitted they retain the capability – but promised it has not been deployed.
(New York Times) – […] The Times revealed in January that the F.B.I. had purchased Pegasus in 2018 and, over the next two years, tested the spyware at a secret facility in New Jersey. Since the bureau first purchased the tool, it has paid approximately $5 million to NSO.
Since that story was published, F.B.I. officials, including Mr. Wray, have gone further than they did during the closed meeting with senators last December. They acknowledged that the bureau did consider deploying Pegasus, though they still emphasized that the F.B.I.’s main goal was to test and evaluate it to assess how adversaries might use it. (read more)
Now, stay with me…
The FBI is not saying they will not use Pegasus, they simply said they would not use the spyware outside of the legal framework for deployment without legal and valid investigative baselines. Put another way, if there was a court ordered search warrant, Pegasus would be a tool for use in criminal investigations.
The latest discussions of Pegasus came around four days after the U.S. election, in a New York Times article November 12th. We know the general use of the New York Times as it pertains to the DOJ/FBI and their domestic public relations efforts. [Broadly, Main Justice (DOJ/FBI) use NYT/Politico, CIA use WaPo and State Dept use CNN]
Consider the timing of November 12th against the backdrop of Main Justic announcing the appointment of Special Counsel Jack Smith November 18. Media narratives often follow a data frequency, a rhyme or signal that you can sense amid the background operations.
So, here we have: (1) Pegasus, a stealth tool for surveillance and extraction of investigative evidence that can be deployed, covertly, without the target having any idea they are exposed. (2) We have concrete evidence the FBI has the Pegasus tool, and an understanding it would not be deployed without legally authorized authorities. And (3) we have a special counsel created to investigate congress under the auspices of the J6 ‘insurrection’…. Can you see where this is going?
The Special Counsel is authorized to conduct the ongoing investigation into whether any person or entity violated the law in connection with efforts to interfere with the lawful transfer of power following the 2020 presidential election or the certification of the Electoral College vote held on or about January 6, 2021, as well as any matters that arose or might arise directly from this investigation or that are within the scope of [Special Counsel Regulations 28 C.F.R. § 600.4(a)]. (pdf)
The special counsel appointment essentially means that congressional representatives are under investigation; and search warrants on their phones, text messages, emails, etc could be authorized. Then we overlay using DOJ-NSD defined terms of “national security threat” (that’s why they emphasized insurrection) and we find the pathway to gain legal search warrants on an incoming congressional caucus. Then the possibilities for Pegasus.
They didn’t just think this up overnight. They are using J6 as a weapon against their losing the House to republicans. The Democrats are now structurally targeting Republicans with the appointment of Jack Smith. The executive is now investigating the legislative branch; the legal structure of this eliminates the separation of powers issue.
The DOJ is not investigating republicans, they are investigating defined criminals; insurrectionists that are national security threats, that happen to be republicans. See how that works?
Contrast these recent events, tools and discoveries against the backstory of how the modern surveillance state was created {Go Deep}. Then overlay their recent Pegasus capabilities against the backdrop of a weaponized DOJ and FBI now targeting political opposition in congress.
In the decades before 9/11/01 the intelligence apparatus intersected with government, influenced government, and undoubtedly controlled many institutions with it. The legislative oversight function was weak and growing weaker, but it still existed and could have been used to keep the IC in check. However, after the events of 9/11/01, the short-sighted legislative reactions opened the door to allow the surveillance state to weaponize against domestic enemies.
After the Patriot Act was triggered, not coincidentally only six weeks after 9/11, a slow and dangerous fuse was lit that ends with the intelligence apparatus being granted a massive amount of power. Simultaneously the mission of the intelligence community now encompassed monitoring domestic threats as defined by the people who operate the surveillance system.
The problem with assembled power is always what happens when a Machiavellian network takes control over that power and begins the process to weaponize the tools for their own malicious benefit. That is exactly what the network of President Barack Obama did.
The Obama network took pre-assembled intelligence weapons (we should never have allowed to be created) and turned those weapons into political tools for his radical and fundamental change. The target was the essential fabric of our nation.
Ultimately, this corrupt political process gave power to create the Fourth Branch of Government, the Intelligence Branch. From that perspective the fundamental change was successful. (more)
This is the scale of corrupt political compromise on both sides of the DC dynamic that we are up against. Preserving this system is also what removing Donald Trump and all of the rebellious unaligned freedom believers is all about.
The question now becomes, will anyone in congress do anything about it now that they are within the target zone?
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Why is it that Sundance uses PayPal for donations?!?
yeah… I thought we were moving to a new pay system.
Well I had a few $ in my Paypal balance so just sent that to the donation box.
Guess the FBI will be showing up a 5am on Thanksgiving to raid my home.
Actually, they plan to show up just before dinner is served. They will feed you in the DC Jail and eat the fine meal you have prepared.
Yep got to confiscate any possible evidence….Then just so it won’t spoil and stink up their offices, they will eat it.
Toss the turkey leg their way!
And PayPal originally said the $2,500.00 was a mistake then reworded the verbiage and the “penalty fee” still stands.
Takes ti e to setup an alternative.
It is in the works.
Asking for my legal name, requiring my phone number and e-mail is intrusive for me. Deleted all my info and donation. Sorry Sundance.
You know the FBI would never ever illegally use the Pegasus Cell Phone Targeting.
of course not – they’re gonna follow THE LAW… lulz
like as if the law is even in effect anymore.
Of COURSE not.
No, the AG spoke of the DOJ and fbi only pursuing truth in the courtroom, and never leaking information.
All of those leaks about Maralago?
Nah, you didn’t hear those on the media over and over and over and over again.
And those FISA warrants? The ones where the fbi lied about the info in the Steele dossier being confirmed?
Nah, they didn’t use that to spy on Trump or anyone around him, no SIR!
Anything they do will be “legal”, even if it ain’t.
The Founding Fathers would start another war….
Isn’t the special council still under the Executive branch of government? If so how doesn’t interfere with the separation of powers with Congress! This point not clear to me, can someone please elaborate?
“The special counsel appointment essentially means that congressional representatives are under investigation; and search warrants on their phones, text messages, emails, etc could be authorized. Then we overlay using DOJ-NSD defined terms of “national security threat” (that’s why they emphasized insurrection) and we find the pathway to gain legal search warrants on an incoming congressional caucus. Then the possibilities for Pegasus.
They didn’t just think this up overnight. They are using J6 as a weapon against their losing the House to republicans. The Democrats are now structurally targeting Republicans with the appointment of Jack Smith. The executive is now investigating the legislative branch; the legal structure of this eliminates the separation of powers issue.
The DOJ is not investigating republicans, they are investigating defined criminals; insurrectionists that are national security threats, that happen to be republicans. See how that works?”
Separation of Powers is not simply an ‘issue,’it is the crux and bone of our Constitutional Republic, born out of the oppressive rule by a tyrannical king. It was once fought to the death over. Twice?
“He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.”
“He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected, whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.”
246 years after the ‘Declaration,’ we are unofficially a country without a Constitution. We are ruled, at times, by a cloudy mysterious head that floats above Washington DC. Sometimes it calls itself Specious Counsel—or is it ‘special’ counsel or is it king. It is conjured and operated by a mob behind the curtain that calls itself LawFare.
From quarters deep within the Executive Branch, it first exercised power to stymie it’s own head, President Trump. Using its favored modus-operandi, it again has identified a threat to ‘national security’ and summons its ‘ongoing investigation’ powers to invoke secrecy to decapitate half the House of Representative’s. Twice?
I wonder if the Assanges or Snowdens of the world could give us a primer on what the signs are that this fascist tool is on your phone, or maybe even provide an app that can block or remove it?
Isn’t there ANYBODY that wants to be a hero anymore?
If you own an Apple or Android phone you are at risk. Buy an Android Open Source Project based phone, or a linux based phone. Apple phones send out tracking signals even when the power is off.
And, ffs, don’t take your phone to a rally. That’s just ignorant.
A Faraday cage can be used to block transmissions when phone is not being used.
I think aluminum foil can be used for this.
Maybe, but phones still work in airplanes on the ground, which are mostly clad in aluminum.
Snowden is still alive because he fled to Russia from Hong Kong, captured since by the Chinese Communist Party. Assange fled to the UK and would be better off in Russia. JMO
Use a real search engine, not google marketing, for “pegasus removal software”.
Here’s an intro on using a different OS on your phone.
Degoogled Phones: Free Your Phone From Google And Apple
https://gofoss.net/intro-free-your-phone/
The State of Massachusetts, with the help pof Google, loaded spyware on to the phones over over 1 million people in Massachusetts. Most people still don’t know it’s there:
NCLA Files Class-Action Against Massachusetts for Auto-Installing Covid Spyware on 1 Million Phoneshttps://nclalegal.org/2022/11/ncla-files-class-action-against-massachusetts-for-auto-installing-covid-spyware-on-1-million-phones/
Washington, DC (November 15, 2022) – The Massachusetts Department of Public Health (DPH) worked with Google to auto-install spyware on the smartphones of more than one million Commonwealth residents, without their knowledge or consent, in a misguided effort to combat Covid-19. Such brazen disregard for civil liberties violates the United States and Massachusetts Constitutions and cannot stand. The New Civil Liberties Alliance, a nonpartisan, nonprofit civil rights group, has filed a class-action lawsuit, Wright v. Massachusetts Department of Public Health, et al., challenging DPH’s covert installation of a Covid tracing app that tracks and records the movement and personal contacts of Android mobile device users without owners’ permission or awareness.
Waiting for the pendulum to swing back the other way. Those who wanted this, really, really wanted this, will get it.
Time to remove sim card and buy new phone.
No, just live without one!
This is the way
I switched to a privacy phone.
Having some experience in the field, I know significant effort has been spent to develop and deploy to the public a means to detect and eliminate this software tool from current generations of Apple and Android devices. This has resulted in a tool available to everyone known as MVT. A straight forward lookup online can find the relevant information that allows the user to detect and remove any Pegasus item. It is sourced by Amnesty International. FWIW
“has been used by police and intelligence services to hack the phones of drug kingpins and terrorists”
Yeah, right! If that was the case we would have less cartel probems and a lot less fentanyl. Not buying this.
Fixers get a cut of the action.
Cronyism masked as national security.
Build Fear Better. Make Americans Scared Again.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/justice/special-counsel-jack-smith-mixed-history-pursuing-politicians
FTA “Smith was the chief of the Justice Department’s Public Integrity Section in the nation’s capital from 2010 until early 2015, leading a team of 30 prosecutors in conducting public corruption cases throughout the United States.
During his years as chief, Smith’s unit garnered a successful conviction against former Gov. Bob McDonnell (R-VA), which was later unanimously overturned by the Supreme Court, and pursued a case against Democratic vice presidential candidate and former Sen. John Edwards (D-NC), which resulted in a hung jury and a mistrial. Smith’s team also secured a conviction against Rep. Rick Renzi (R-AZ) before he was pardoned by Trump in 2021 and laid the groundwork for what would become the unsuccessful prosecution of Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ).”
It’s as if the Democrats have a plan in place to destroy any up and coming Republican using the politicized leftist corrupt DOJ! The DOJ needs to be destroyed just like the FBI!!! Jack Smith is a leftist political hack masquerading as an “independent” Federal Prosecutor which is total bullshit!!! Godspeed President Trump!!!
Smith is one of the reasons Holder and Lerner aren’t in prison.
https://justthenews.com/sites/default/files/2022-11/2014-05-22-DEI-Jordan-to-Holder-DOJ-Jack-Smith-transcribed-interview.pdf
I used to think Menendez was proof of NJ’s corruption but MD had so many too.
So Smith is qualified by the reverse SCOTUS beat down like Weisman (sp?) of Mueller and Enron fame.
Let’s not forget that the government gave it’s self permission to do this domestically two decades ago when Republicans passed the Patriot Act.
But let’s virtue signal about our outrage some more. 🙄
I wonder if Trump regrets renewing that in 2018 yet?
Weird how this stuff happens.
*MAGACADABRA*
Patriot Act surveillance powers left unrenewed after Trump threatens veto
(2020)
tomsguide.com/news/fisa-provisions-die-in-house
Maybe politicians should take some lessons from the mob. Don’t talk business on the phone.
When your phone is made by the “Palo Alto Mafia”…ymmv.
“Palo Alto Mafia” Censoring Conservatives: Trump 2020 Campaign Manager
zerohedge.com/news/2018-10-29/palo-alto-mafia-censoring-conservatives-trump-2020-campaign-manager
There is nothing smart about owning a “smart phone”. Crush the damn thing. Drive over it with your car. Smash it with a hammer. Put a 9mm round right through the middle of it. Throw it into the ocean, or off the top of a mountain. Whatever gives you the most satisfaction. It’s never too late .
You can thank me later.
Applicable to any “smart” device… phones, cars, televisions, toothbrushes, etc…
At the minimum, those devices are collecting telemetrics which are sold to third party advertisers. And for those who might think that a smart toothbrush couldn’t possibly collect marketing data, it can infer when you get up, when you go to bed, how many hours you sleep…
I’m reading this on my smart phone-just ask big brother, he saw it too.
“… though they still emphasized that the F.B.I.’s main goal was to test and evaluate it to assess how adversaries might use it.”
Hmmm … now where have I heard s similar argument just recently? Oh yeah: Gain Of Function research.
PROMIS has been around for a long time. Some people say Robert Maxwell stole it, or DOJ confiscated it and gave it to Maxwell. Here is a 30 year old article about the lawyer that created PROMIS, William Inslaw
https://www.wired.com/1993/01/inslaw/
Trump will never be President again, he should’ve declared Martial Law during COVID Sham and once the election was declared a disaster militarize the whole country. The fiery cauldron that would’ve been unleashed would’ve cleansed this nation. He lost his chance and so did we. We’ll have to wait another 50 years before another Trump can sneak his way in.
You don’t sneak your way in.
Mean tweets scare national security more then Russia, Russia, and Russia.
One of the things that bugs me is that to my knowledge, Apple and the other phone manufacturers have not said boo. You would think they would be keenly interested in protecting their customer’s privacy and explaining publicly the steps they are taking to develop the anti-virus capabilities to fight Pegasus. They could be using their phones to release ongoing updates and statements on exactly what is going on and if their phones are not safe, making sure we know it. Rather, they seem to have rolled over and abased themselves to the deep state.
Of course, what’s Pegasus for the goose is Pegasus (or Phantom) for the gander – if there is enough money and proper connections at hand.
Sophisticated stuff. Been around/has evolved for over a decade, so one should treat the “we only wanted to evaluate” circa 2019 statement with several degrees of suspicion.
Pegasus is a distractor anyway.
Multi-front wars are exceedingly difficult to win.
This has been an on-going assault for quite some time.
Thanksgiving this week yet my family and have been flabbergasted but also sadly laugh yearly about the following:
I have 6 kids. We always ate dinner together. Jostling sports practice to have us all eat together. At the table, we discussed anything and everything. This particular dinner discussed Snowden. My kids were high school and younger.
They were floored and dismissive that the gov’t could monitor all.
My youngest at the time(6th grade) laughed and laughed.
She proceeded to post on “my space” remember that? I’m going to code what she wrote. You’ll get it.
She POSTED. “So if I said that I wanted to kill “O” the government will come get me. HaHa”.
I had phone calls from the SS saying they wanted to talk to me. I had no idea at the time she had written that post.
I kept hanging up on them thinking it was a prank. Finally, the man said on the phone,if i did not believe him, to call the
Phila field office of SS and ask for him. He did not give me #. Told me to look it up in phone book.
I did and asked for him. He asked if I’d like to meet him at the local PD or at the house. I chose the house. 3 black suburbans pulled into the drive. Searched my daughter’s Taylor Swift, Maroon 5 CDs. Asked if we’d been to any political rallies. My 6th grader didn’t even know!!!! Kept looking at me for assurance.
They read the two of us our Miranda rights line by line and we had to sign.
You have the right to remain silent…… signature signature
You have the right to an attorney…. signature signature etc
I told them that it was ridiculous. They said, “Yes, but you better warn your daughter and her friends that this is NO joke.
Iwas red pllled before this but the black pill was shoved down my throat that day.
This is nothing new to me, but I am not afraid. Was then, but never again
Apparently there is an antispyware detector for Pegasus called Mobile Verification Toolkit (MVT) that was developed by Amnesty International. I would hope that anyone of importance has this software or better yet sticks with a basic cell phone without camera or internet access.
Ostensibly this Israeli software created by Israeli intelligence is being sold to law enforcement to be used to catch the “bad guys” but obviously having this capability you can be sure that Israeli intelligence has used Pegasus to collect tons of kompromat on important political leaders (Pegasus made people like Jeffrey Epstein obsolete).
Speaking of Pegasus one story that did not get much attention (although it was reported in the Washington Post) is that Gen. Mike Flynn worked for NSO between 2015-2017!. Flynn was paid a cool $100K to serve as a “consultant”. I wonder what Flynn did as a “consultant”? Flynn’s phone directory during those years would have contained very important people including a future president and it alone would be worth $100K to the Israeli’s! Having headed up the DIA Flynn had to know that this software was designed for nefarious purposes and American politicians were the main target! Again surprised this part of Flynn’s resume gets so little attention.
Wray’s phrasing made it seem to me that they were reverse-engineering it to make their own tool.
Get rid of your cell phones
And their favorite PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE SPY WEAPON . The F I S A Weaponized star chamber . That’s what it’s all about.
So our incoming Republicans who will hopefully be in a House majority, had better hit the ground running on 1/20. Been saying for a looongg time that the marquez of queensbury rules should have been jettisoned before it came right down to self preservation. There’s an old saying about an ounce of prevention that applies here, but way past that now.
A number of GOP Reps need to start using burner phones. Let’s hope they have enough sense to do so.
This is straight out of Central America and subsaharan Africa. Republican presidential candidates will be taken out, beginning with the real winner of the 2020 election. Republicans in Congress will be picked off one by one for this or that pretext until the party of satanism, socialism and sodomy regains control of the House. The communist color revolution will then be completed, and our guns will be confiscated, our property expropriated, our newborn children forcibly aborted and the older ones taken and castrated and mutilated and given to pederasts and pedophiles, and then they will shoot us in the back of the head as in the Ministry of Love.
Well I’ve read many times this will not be resolved at the voting booth. Daily I’m afraid that’s right.
Dumb question here:
What if someone targeted Pegasus to the DOJ and FBI and started releasing unredacted transcripts?
Praying daily for a solar pulse to wipe out the entire system.
That is the 64 Trillion dollar question? Since almost exactly the same rhetoric was used to squelch opposition to the “Patriot Act”, I am pretty sure “Pegasus” is already not turning out well. The only solution is not attainable with only 55% of the Republican Party’s support, and maybe half of the so-called Independent voters who are above the age of Generation Z voters. It looks like we are a long way from being the actual majority Party. Something has to give, and the Demcommies are covering all of the bases before we even get up to the plate.
It appears that the only viable and peaceful way to restore limited and strictly enumerated federal government power in our union of sovereign states is a Convention of States under Article V of the US Constitution. The exponential growth of authoritarian federal power since at least the Woodrow Wilson administration has so eroded the ability of We the People to govern ourselves in our counties and states that it is time for us to take it back. The current administrative structure of the federal government does not tolerate competition well, and therein lies the insidiously dangerous threat to our freedoms and the founding principles of citizen self-governance.
The organized efforts to stifle investigations into the rigged 2020 election shows how afraid they must be to have the truth come out.
They cheated. We know it. Bugging my phone doesn’t change anything.