On Oct 6, 6:09=A0pm, kangarooistan wrote:
> On Oct 6, 7:48=A0am, kangarooistan wrote:
>
> > THE AMDOCS CONNECTION
>
> > If a phone is dialed in the US, Amdocs Ltd. likely has a record of it,
> > which includes who you dialed and how long you spoke. This is known as
> > transactional call data. Amdocs' biggest customers in the US are AT&T
> > and Verizon, which have collaborated widely with the Bush
> > Administration's warrantless wiretapping programs. Transactional call
> > data has been identified as a key element in NSA data mining to look
> > for "suspicious" patterns in communications.
>
> > Over the last decade, Amdocs has been the target of several
> > investigations looking into whether individuals within the company
> > shared sensitive US government data with organized crime elements and
> > Israeli intelligence services. Beginning in 1997, the FBI conducted a
> > far-flung inquiry into alleged spying by an Israeli employee of
> > Amdocs, who worked on a telephone billing program purchased by the
> > CIA. According to Paul Rodriguez and J. Michael Waller, of Insight
> > Magazine, which broke the story in May of 2000, the targeted Israeli
> > had apparently also facilitated the tapping of telephone lines at the
> > Clinton White House (recall Monica Lewinsky's testimony before Ken
> > Starr: the president, she claimed, had warned her that "a foreign
> > embassy" was listening to their phone ., though Clinton under oath
> > later denied saying this). More than two dozen intelligence,
> > counterintelligence, law-enforcement and other officials told Insight
> > that a "daring operation," run by Israeli intelligence, had
> > "intercepted telephone and modem communications on some of the most
> > sensitive lines of the US government on an ongoing basis." Insight's
> > chief investigative reporter, Paul Rodriguez, told me in an e-mail
> > that the May 2000 spy probe story "was (and is) one of the strangest
> > I've ever worked on, considering the state of alert, concern and
> > puzzlement" among federal agents. According to the Insight report, FBI
> > investigators were particularly unnerved over discovering the targeted
> > Israeli subcontractor had somehow gotten his hands on the FBI's "most
> > sensitive telephone numbers, including the Bureau's =91black' lines use=
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> > for wiretapping." "Some of the listed numbers," the Insight article
> > added, "were lines that FBI counterintelligence used to keep track of
> > the suspected Israeli spy operation. The hunted were tracking the
> > hunters." Rodriguez confirmed the panic this caused in American
> > Intel"It's a huge security nightmare," one senior US official told
> > him. "The implications are severe," said a second official. "All I can
> > tell you is that we think we know how it was done," a third
> > intelligence executive told Rodriguez. "That alone is serious enough,
> > but it's the unknown that has such deep consequences." No charges,
> > however, were made public in the case. (What happened behind the
> > scenes depends on who you talk to in law enforcement: When FBI
> > counterintelligence sought a warrant for the Israeli subcontractor,
> > the Justice Department strangely refused to cooperate, and in the end
> > no warrant was issued. FBI investigators were baffled.)
>
=A0London Sunday Times reporter Uzi Mahnaimi quotes sources in Tel Aviv
saying that during this period e-mails from President Clinton had also
been interceptedbyIsraeliintelligence.
http://www.antiwar.com/orig/ketcham.php?articleid=3D13506
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