National Security Agency IG Robert Storch announced the move on Tuesday, saying his office would look into whether the agency “improperly targeted the communications of a member of the US news media.” While the statement stopped short of citing Carlson by name, unnamed officials told CBS News and the Wall …
Read More »Israel tells France it takes NSO spyware allegations ‘seriously’ after defense ministers discuss Pegasus affair
Gantz met Parly on Wednesday during a brief visit to France. Ahead of the talks, a French government spokesperson said Parly would “seize the opportunity” and grill Israel’s defense chief on his government’s knowledge about the Pegasus spyware, sold worldwide by Israeli company NSO Group. The two parties were quite …
Read More »‘Shameful’: Mexico’s president vows probe into allegations Pegasus malware used by previous govt to spy on him and dozens more
In a speech on Tuesday, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador labeled allegations that the previous administration of President Enrique Peña Nieto spied on him and his associates as “shameful.” “They had sophisticated equipment to listen to all phone calls, not only from the person who was the target, but from …
Read More »German troops jeopardize military’s reputation with allegations of anti-Semitism and sexual abuse in Lithuania
Addressing the situation during a speech to young officers, Kramp-Karrenbauer condemned the actions of serving German officers after reports surfaced about serious misconduct of soldiers who had been deployed to Lithuania. The comments come two days after the Defense Ministry recalled numerous German soldiers from Lithuania to face disciplinary action, …
Read More »France says allegations of US espionage on European leaders are ‘extremely serious’ & may have ‘consequences’
“It is extremely serious, we must verify if our EU partners, Danes, have committed errors or mistakes in their cooperation with the American services… And then on the American side, see if indeed there was listening, spying on politicians,” Clement Beaune said in an interview with the France Info radio …
Read More »Ellen DeGeneres to end talk show after reputation as ‘be kind lady’ collapses amid allegations of bullying, staff abuse
“When you’re a creative person, you constantly need to be challenged, and as great as this show is, and as fun as it is, it’s just not a challenge anymore,” DeGeneres told the Hollywood Reporter on Wednesday. She plans to expound on her decision in an interview with Oprah Winfrey …
Read More »Tara Reade: Sexual assault allegations are a career death sentence for anyone… except an establishment Democrat
The scandal pushback playbook has not changed since the early 1990s, when it comes to smearing and silencing accusers of powerful men. Democratic candidates have money and protection to pad the fall. They also have the ever-present pseudo-feminist MeToo celebrities to use as a shield and the fourth estate media …
Read More »OPCW chief must ‘find the courage to address’ Douma coverup allegations, says group including 5 senior ex-officials of watchdog
A new statement from whistleblower-supporting organization the Courage Foundation complains that the leadership of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) has failed to properly address accusations of a coverup involving the alleged chemical weapons attack in Douma, Syria in April 2018. Instead it tried to “side-step the …
Read More »Incompetence and corruption allegations blight Germany’s handling of Covid as two MPs quit politics over ‘kickbacks for facemasks’
Allegations of German politicians at the highest level of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government profiteering from the pandemic have rocked a nation sick of lockdown restrictions, struggling with a stubborn Covid-19 infection rate and a shambolic vaccine rollout. A leading figure in Germany’s largest opposition party, Alternative für Deutschland (AfD), Euro …
Read More »Bild’s ‘spying’ allegations against RT German are perfect fit for ‘NATO narrative,’ Afshin Rattansi says as RT vows legal action
A story published in Bild on Tuesday alleged that RT’s German-language wing dispatched two of its reporters to “spy” on Russian corruption campaigner Alexey Navalny as he convalesced at a hospital in Berlin from an ostensible poisoning. But Rattansi, host of RT’s ‘Going Underground,’ argued the report failed to uncover …
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