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Just because it doesn't look like the job of the most likely agency of the USG to do doesn't mean that it wasn't some other part of the USG that did it. The ov
by Nrsolis 13y ago
Just because it doesn't look like the job of the most likely agency of the USG to do doesn't mean that it wasn't some other part of the USG that did it. The oversight and internal motivations of the USG (indeed, any government) aren't uniform. Not by a long shot.
Case in point: JSOC developed their own intelligence capability that was a rival to that of the CIA and used it for their own purposes. That was one of the things that the DoD did that seems to replicate a capability available elsewhere in the USG and almost entirely for the purpose of escaping oversight.
BTW, Jeremy Scahill (author of Blackwater and Dirty Wars) reported that HIS laptop was hacked. When you combine this with the surveillance of AP reporters and it does seem that certain parts of the USG seem to feel that journalists are worthy and legitimate intelligence targets.
- tptacek 13y agoJeremy Scahill says his laptop was hacked. Therefore, the USG is hacking reporter laptops? If these were claims about the relative performance of programming language runtimes, we'd be 1000 comments deep into a massive debate thread.
- Nrsolis 13y agoWhat I'm saying is that we have two reported cases of reporters getting hacked. We have the AP having their phone records pulled. You don't think there is a little there to be worried about? Do you think the Chinese have anything to gain from hacking a reporter's laptop? Occam's razor man. Learn it.
- tptacek 13y agoYes, among the people who have something to gain from hacking a reporter's laptops I would include the Chinese.