(11-18-2019, 01:12 AM)Mystic Wanderer Wrote: Not sure where to post this, so I'll just post it in this thread since it is kinda down the rabbit hole when you make the connections certain people have.
This man is a REAL whistle-blower, and he has some startling news to share with "normies". Anyone following Q knew most of this, especially the part about Shifty Shit and Obummer.
Give it a listen and see how the REAL world is run. (But not for much longer!)
Did you all listen to this? Did you hear where Shifty Shiff, piece of shit, had Anthony B. killed? If not, go back and watch the video.
11-20-2019, 07:02 PM (This post was last modified: 11-20-2019, 07:02 PM by Mystic Wanderer.)
I'm sure if you follow any Q decoders you know Q has been posting on the new board.
Don't miss the latest drops, and be sure to click on the links in the posts.
Some of my favorite decoders, in case you are new here, are: IPOT, Redpill78, TruReporting, SpaceShot76, just to name a few. The Kate Awakening also does a good job. All these can be found on You Tube... for now.
(11-18-2019, 01:12 AM)Mystic Wanderer Wrote: Not sure where to post this, so I'll just post it in this thread since it is kinda down the rabbit hole when you make the connections certain people have.
This man is a REAL whistle-blower, and he has some startling news to share with "normies". Anyone following Q knew most of this, especially the part about Shifty Shit and Obummer.
Give it a listen and see how the REAL world is run. (But not for much longer!)
Did you all listen to this? Did you hear where Shifty Shiff, piece of shit, had Anthony B. killed? If not, go back and watch the video.
Thoughts?
I did try to watch it, twice, and both times it put me to sleep before it got to anything of substance, so I didn't catch any allegations of Schitt-Show having anyone killed, and have no idea who "Anthony B." is or why Schitt-Show would want him killed. An executive summary and/or timestamp would be helpful, I think.
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Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering the king.
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’
(11-18-2019, 01:12 AM)Mystic Wanderer Wrote: Not sure where to post this, so I'll just post it in this thread since it is kinda down the rabbit hole when you make the connections certain people have.
This man is a REAL whistle-blower, and he has some startling news to share with "normies". Anyone following Q knew most of this, especially the part about Shifty Shit and Obummer.
Give it a listen and see how the REAL world is run. (But not for much longer!)
Did you all listen to this? Did you hear where Shifty Shiff, piece of shit, had Anthony B. killed? If not, go back and watch the video.
Thoughts?
I did try to watch it, twice, and both times it put me to sleep before it got to anything of substance, so I didn't catch any allegations of Schitt-Show having anyone killed, and have no idea who "Anthony B." is or why Schitt-Show would want him killed. An executive summary and/or timestamp would be helpful, I think.
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That's what you get for not following this thread @"Ninurta".
Anthony B. is Anthony Bourdain. I wasn't sure how to spell his last name when I was posting the above and didn't have time to look it up; walking out the door at the time.
Anthony was said to have committed suicide, I think it was last year; don't quote me on that either. I'm sure you can do a search on his name and catch up.
The "good part" of the video starts just a little past half way, if you want to go back and listen.
Two (or should I say three?) of my favorites; RedPill78 and Edge of Wonder both together last night.
Great 2-hour show.
Watch it when you need something to do over the weekend.
(11-23-2019, 09:33 PM)Mystic Wanderer Wrote: Two (or should I say three?) of my favorites; RedPill78 and Edge of Wonder both together last night.
Great 2-hour show.
Watch it when you need something to do over the weekend.
IPOT takes somewhat of a deep dive into the London Bridge event that happened a few days ago. Also, he goes into some strange tweets and connections it has to Queen Elizabeth's death.
12-03-2019, 05:03 PM (This post was last modified: 12-03-2019, 05:10 PM by BIAD.)
This one is a little late and came out in January of this year. It's a long one, but I strongly suggest you throw
your cell-phones away and do it now.
Quote:Inside The UAE’s Secret Hacking Team Of American Mercenaries.
'Two weeks after leaving her position as an intelligence analyst for the U.S. National Security Agency in 2014,
Lori Stroud was in the Middle East working as a hacker for an Arab monarchy.
CONTRACT SPY After leaving her job at the NSA in 2014, Lori Stroud worked as a contract intelligence
operative for the UAE. Stroud, now living in an undisclosed location in America, said the mission crossed
a line when she learned her unit was spying on Americans.
Photo by Reuters/Joel Schectman.
She had joined Project Raven, a clandestine team that included more than a dozen former U.S. intelligence
operatives recruited to help the United Arab Emirates engage in surveillance of other governments, militants
and human rights activists critical of the monarchy.
Stroud and her team, working from a converted mansion in Abu Dhabi known internally as “the Villa,” would
use methods learned from a decade in the U.S intelligence community to help the UAE hack into the phones
and computers of its enemies.
Stroud had been recruited by a Maryland cybersecurity contractor to help the Emiratis launch hacking operations,
and for three years, she thrived in the job. But in 2016, the Emiratis moved Project Raven to a UAE cybersecurity
firm named DarkMatter.
Before long, Stroud and other Americans involved in the effort say they saw the mission cross a red line: targeting
fellow Americans for surveillance.
“I am working for a foreign intelligence agency who is targeting U.S. persons,” she told Reuters.
“I am officially the bad kind of spy.”
The story of Project Raven reveals how former U.S. government hackers have employed state-of-the-art cyber
-espionage tools on behalf of a foreign intelligence service that spies on human rights activists, journalists and
political rivals.
Interviews with nine former Raven operatives, along with a review of thousands of pages of project documents
and emails, show that surveillance techniques taught by the NSA were central to the UAE’s efforts to monitor
opponents. The sources interviewed by Reuters were not Emirati citizens.
The operatives utilized an arsenal of cyber tools, including a cutting-edge espionage platform known as Karma,
in which Raven operatives say they hacked into the iPhones of hundreds of activists, political leaders and
suspected terrorists. Details of the Karma hack were described in a separate Reuters article today.
An NSA spokesman declined to comment on Raven. An Apple spokeswoman declined to comment.
A spokeswoman for UAE’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs declined to comment. The UAE’s Embassy in
Washington and a spokesman for its National Media Council did not respond to requests for comment.
The UAE has said it faces a real threat from violent extremist groups and that it is cooperating with the
United States on counterterrorism efforts. Former Raven operatives say the project helped the UAE’s
National Electronic Security Authority, or NESA, break up an ISIS network within the Emirates.
When an ISIS-inspired militant stabbed to death a teacher in Abu Dhabi in 2014, the operatives say,
Raven spearheaded the UAE effort to assess if other attacks were imminent.
Various reports have highlighted the ongoing cyber arms race in the Middle East, as the Emirates and other
nations attempt to sweep up hacking weapons and personnel faster than their rivals. The Reuters investigation
is the first to reveal the existence of Project Raven, providing a rare inside account of state hacking operations
usually shrouded in secrecy and denials.
The Raven story also provides new insight into the role former American cyberspies play in foreign hacking
operations.
Within the U.S. intelligence community, leaving to work as an operative for another country is seen by some
as a betrayal. “There’s a moral obligation if you’re a former intelligence officer from becoming effectively a
mercenary for a foreign government,” said Bob Anderson, who served as executive assistant director of
the Federal Bureau of Investigation until 2015.
While this activity raises ethical dilemmas, U.S. national security lawyers say the laws guiding what American
intelligence contractors can do abroad are murky. Though it’s illegal to share classified information, there is
no specific law that bars contractors from sharing more general spycraft knowhow, such as how to bait a
target with a virus-laden email.
The rules, however, are clear on hacking U.S. networks or stealing the communications of Americans.
“It would be very illegal,” said Rhea Siers, former NSA deputy assistant director for policy.
The hacking of Americans was a tightly held secret even within Raven, with those operations led by Emiratis
instead. Stroud’s account of the targeting of Americans was confirmed by four other former operatives and
in emails reviewed by Reuters.
The FBI is now investigating whether Raven’s American staff leaked classified U.S. surveillance techniques
and if they illegally targeted American computer networks, according to former Raven employees interviewed
by federal law enforcement agents. Stroud said she is cooperating with that investigation.
No charges have been filed and it is possible none will emerge from the inquiry.
An FBI spokeswoman declined to comment.
PURPLE BRIEFING, BLACK BRIEFING.
Stroud is the only former Raven operative willing to be named in this story; eight others who described their
experiences would do so only on condition of anonymity. She spent a decade at the NSA, first as a military
service member from 2003 to 2009 and later as a contractor in the agency for the giant technology consultant
Booz Allen Hamilton from 2009 to 2014.
Her specialty was hunting for vulnerabilities in the computer systems of foreign governments, such as China,
and analyzing what data should be stolen.
In 2013, her world changed. While stationed at NSA Hawaii, Stroud says, she made the fateful recommendation
to bring a Dell technician already working in the building onto her team. That contractor was Edward Snowden.
“He’s former CIA, he’s local, he’s already cleared,” Stroud, 37, recalled. “He’s perfect!” Booz and the NSA would
later approve Snowden’s transfer, providing him with even greater access to classified material.
Two months after joining Stroud’s group, Snowden fled the United States and passed on thousands of pages of
top secret program files to journalists, detailing the agency’s massive data collection programs. In the maelstrom
that followed, Stroud said her Booz team was vilified for unwittingly enabling the largest security breach in agency
history.
“Our brand was ruined,” she said of her team.
In the wake of the scandal, Marc Baier, a former colleague at NSA Hawaii, offered her the chance to work for a
contractor in Abu Dhabi called CyberPoint. In May 2014, Stroud jumped at the opportunity and left Booz Allen.
CyberPoint, a small cybersecurity contractor headquartered in Baltimore, was founded by an entrepreneur named
Karl Gumtow in 2009. Its clients have included the U.S. Department of Defense, and its UAE business has gained
media attention.
In an interview, Gumtow said his company was not involved in any improper actions.
Stroud had already made the switch from government employee to Booz Allen contractor, essentially performing
the same NSA job at higher pay. Taking a job with CyberPoint would fulfill a lifelong dream of deploying to the
Middle East and doing so at a lucrative salary. Many analysts, like Stroud, were paid more than $200,000 a year,
and some managers received salaries and compensation above $400,000
She understood her new job would involve a counterterrorism mission in cooperation with the Emiratis, a close U.S.
ally in the fight against ISIS, but little else. Baier and other Raven managers assured her the project was approved
by the NSA, she said.
With Baier’s impressive resume, including time in an elite NSA hacking unit known as Tailored Access Operations,
the pledge was convincing. Baier did not respond to multiple phone calls, text messages, emails, and messages
on social media.
In the highly secretive, compartmentalized world of intelligence contracting, it isn’t unusual for recruiters to keep the
mission and client from potential hires until they sign non-disclosure documents and go through a briefing process.
When Stroud was brought into the Villa for the first time, in May 2014, Raven management gave her two separate
briefings, back-to-back.
In the first, known internally as the “Purple briefing,” she said she was told Raven would pursue a purely defensive
mission, protecting the government of the UAE from hackers and other threats. Right after the briefing ended, she
said she was told she had just received a cover story.
She then received the “Black briefing,” a copy of which was reviewed by Reuters. Raven is “the offensive, operational
division of NESA and will never be acknowledged to the general public,” the Black memo says. NESA was the UAE’s
version of the NSA.
Stroud would be part of Raven’s analysis and target-development shop, tasked with helping the government profile
its enemies online, hack them and collect data. Those targets were provided by the client, NESA, now called the
Signals Intelligence Agency.
The language and secrecy of the briefings closely mirrored her experience at the NSA, Stroud said, giving her a level
of comfort.
The information scooped up by Raven was feeding a security apparatus that has drawn international criticism.
The Emirates, a wealthy federation of seven Arab sheikhdoms with a population of 9 million, is an ally of neighbor
Saudi Arabia and rival of Iran.
Like those two regional powers, the UAE has been accused of suppressing free speech, detaining dissidents and
other abuses by groups such as Human Rights Watch. The UAE says it is working closely with Washington to fight
extremism “beyond the battlefield” and is promoting efforts to counter the “root causes” of radical violence.
Raven’s targets eventually would include militants in Yemen, foreign adversaries such as Iran, Qatar and Turkey,
and individuals who criticized the monarchy, said Stroud and eight other former Raven operatives.
Their accounts were confirmed by hundreds of Raven program documents reviewed by Reuters.
Under orders from the UAE government, former operatives said, Raven would monitor social media and target
people who security forces felt had insulted the government. “Some days it was hard to swallow, like [when you target]
a 16-year-old kid on Twitter,” she said. “But it’s an intelligence mission, you are an intelligence operative. I never made
it personal.”
The Americans identified vulnerabilities in selected targets, developed or procured software to carry out the intrusions
and assisted in monitoring them, former Raven employees said. But an Emirati operative would usually press the button
on an attack. This arrangement was intended to give the Americans “plausible deniability” about the nature of the work,
said former Raven members.
TARGETING ‘GYRO’ AND ‘EGRET’.
Stroud discovered that the program took aim not just at terrorists and foreign government agencies, but also dissidents
and human rights activists. The Emiratis categorized them as national security targets.
Following the Arab Spring protests and the ousting of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in 2011, Emirati security forces
viewed human rights advocates as a major threat to “national stability,” records and interviews show.
UNDER SURVEILLANCE Rori Donaghy (left) and Ahmed Mansoor (right) were consistently targeted for
years by former American intelligence operatives working for the UAE.
Donaghy photo by Reuters/Simon Dawson and Mansoor photo by Reuters/Nikhil Monteiro.
One of the program’s key targets in 2012 was Rori Donaghy, according to former Raven operatives and program documents.
Donaghy, then 25, was a British journalist and activist who authored articles critical of the country’s human rights record.
In 2012, he wrote an opinion piece for the Guardian criticizing the UAE government’s activist crackdown and warning that,
if it continued, “those in power face an uncertain future.”
Before 2012, the former operatives said, the nascent UAE intelligence-gathering operation largely relied on Emirati agents
breaking into the homes of targets while they were away and physically placing spyware on computers.
But as the Americans built up Raven, the remote hacking of Donaghy offered the contractors a tantalizing win they could
present to the client.
INSIDE THE VILLA
Dozens of Emirati staff and American contractors worked on Project Raven, based out of a converted mansion in Abu Dhabi.
The operatives were broken up into teams each supporting the mission of hacking targets chosen by UAE security forces.
This process was developed by American operatives with a deep background in U.S. intelligence.
Quote:STEP 1: NESA agents called on Raven management to gather information on the targets.
STEP 2:Using fake identities and Bitcoin, the Infrastructure department anonymously rented servers around the world.
Those remote servers allowed Raven to launch attacks from a network of machines that cannot be traced back to the project.
STEP 3: Raven management assigned members of its Targeting division -mostly American former intelligence operatives -to
figure out ways to spy on the targets.
Those operatives scouted the targets’ online accounts, mobile devices and social media profiles, searching for vulnerabilities
that can be exploited to gain access. The operatives also tried to learn the identity of close friends, relatives and associates
that can be put under surveillance along with the primary targets.
STEP 4: Targeting division worked together with a team of software developers to identify and build appropriate computer
attacks for those specific devices or accounts used by the targets.
STEP 5: The Initial Access Development group then provided the operational team with hacking tools designed to breach
each specific target. The Operations team launched hacking missions against the people or organizations requested by
NESA.
They stole data and installed malicious software on the targets’ systems to maintain access.
STEP 6: Data retrieved from the hacking operations was dumped into a memory repository where it could be decrypted,
organized and analyzed. Management collected useful information and turned it over to NESA.
After Raven achieved initial access into its target’s accounts, it maintained surveillance and continued to vacuum up emails,
photos and the person’s location for as long as possible.
Because of sensitivity over human rights violations and press freedom in the West, the operation against a journalist
-activist was a gamble. “The potential risk to the UAE Government and diplomatic relations with Western powers is
great if the operation can be traced back to UAE,” 2012 program documents said.
To get close to Donaghy, a Raven operative should attempt to “ingratiate himself to the target by espousing similar beliefs,”
the cyber-mercenaries wrote. Donaghy would be “unable to resist an overture of this nature,” they believed.
Posing as a single human rights activist, Raven operatives emailed Donaghy asking for his help to “bring hope to those who
are long suffering,” the email message said.
The operative convinced Donaghy to download software he claimed would make messages “difficult to trace.”
In reality, the malware allowed the Emiratis to continuously monitor Donaghy’s email account and Internet browsing.
The surveillance against Donaghy, who was given the codename Gyro, continued under Stroud and remained a top
priority for the Emirates for years, Stroud said.
Donaghy eventually became aware that his email had been hacked. In 2015, after receiving another suspicious email,
he contacted a security researcher at Citizen Lab, a Canadian human rights and digital privacy group, who discovered
hackers had been attempting for years to breach his computer.
Reached by phone in London, Donaghy, now a graduate student pursuing Arab studies, expressed surprise he was
considered a top national security target for five years. Donaghy confirmed he was targeted using the techniques
described in the documents.
“I’m glad my partner is sitting here as I talk on the phone because she wouldn’t believe it,” he said. Told the hackers were
American mercenaries working for the UAE, Donaghy, a British citizen, expressed surprise and disgust. “It feels like a
betrayal of the alliance we have,” he said.
Stroud said her background as an intelligence operative made her comfortable with human rights targets as long as they
weren’t Americans. “We’re working on behalf of this country’s government, and they have specific intelligence objectives
which differ from the U.S., and understandably so,” Stroud said. “You live with it.”
Prominent Emirati activist Ahmed Mansoor, given the code name Egret, was another target, former Raven operatives say.
For years, Mansoor publicly criticized the country’s war in Yemen, treatment of migrant workers and detention of political
opponents.
In September 2013, Raven presented senior NESA officials with material taken from Mansoor’s computer, boasting of
the successful collection of evidence against him. It contained screenshots of emails in which Mansoor discussed an
upcoming demonstration in front of the UAE’s Federal Supreme Court with family members of imprisoned dissidents.
Raven told UAE security forces Mansoor had photographed a prisoner he visited in jail, against prison policy, “and then
attempted to destroy the evidence on his computer,” said a Powerpoint presentation reviewed by Reuters.
Citizen Lab published research in 2016 showing that Mansoor and Donaghy were targeted by hackers -with researchers
speculating that the UAE government was the most likely culprit. Concrete evidence of who was responsible, details on
the use of American operatives, and first-hand accounts from the hacking team are reported here for the first time.
Mansoor was convicted in a secret trial in 2017 of damaging the country’s unity and sentenced to 10 years in jail.
He is now held in solitary confinement, his health declining, a person familiar with the matter said.
Mansoor’s wife, Nadia, has lived in social isolation in Abu Dhabi. Neighbors are avoiding her out of fear security forces
are watching. They are correct. By June 2017 Raven had tapped into her mobile device and given her the code name
Purple Egret, program documents reviewed by Reuters show.
To do so, Raven utilized a powerful new hacking tool called Karma, which allowed operatives to break into the iPhones
of users around the world.
Karma allowed Raven to obtain emails, location, text messages and photographs from iPhones simply by uploading
lists of numbers into a preconfigured system, five former project employees said. Reuters had no contact with Mansoor’s
wife.
Karma was particularly potent because it did not require a target to click on any link to download malicious software.
The operatives understood the hacking tool to rely on an undisclosed vulnerability in Apple’s iMessage text messaging
software.
In 2016 and 2017, it would be used against hundreds of targets across the Middle East and Europe, including
governments of Qatar, Yemen, Iran and Turkey, documents show. Raven used Karma to hack an iPhone used by
the Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani, as well as the phones of close associates and his brother.
The embassy of Qatar in Washington did not respond to requests for comment.
WHAT WASHINGTON KNEW.
Former Raven operatives believed they were on the right side of the law because, they said, supervisors told them the
mission was blessed by the U.S. government. Although the NSA wasn’t involved in day-to-day operations, the agency
approved of and was regularly briefed on Raven’s activities, they said Baier told them.
CyberPoint founder Gumtow said his company was not involved in hacking operations.
“We were not doing offensive operations. Period,” Gumtow said in a phone interview. “If someone was doing something
rogue, then that’s painful for me to think they would do that under our banner.”
Instead, he said, the company trained Emiratis to defend themselves through a program with the country’s Ministry of Interior.
A review of internal Raven documents shows Gumtow’s description of the program as advising the Interior Ministry on
cyber defense matches an “unclassified cover story” Raven operatives were instructed to give when asked about the
project.
Raven employees were told to say they worked for the Information Technology and Interoperability Office, the program
document said.
Providing sensitive defense technologies or services to a foreign government generally requires special licenses from the
U.S. State and Commerce Departments. Both agencies declined to comment on whether they issued such licenses to
CyberPoint for its operations in the UAE. They added that human rights considerations figure into any such approvals.
But a 2014 State Department agreement with CyberPoint showed Washington understood the contractors were helping
launch cyber surveillance operations for the UAE. The approval document explains CyberPoint’s contract is to work
alongside NESA in the “protection of UAE sovereignty” through “collection of information from communications systems
inside and outside the UAE” and “surveillance analysis.”
One section of the State Department approval states CyberPoint must receive specific approval from the NSA before
giving any presentations pertaining to “computer network exploitation or attack.” Reuters identified dozens of such
presentations Raven gave to NESA describing attacks against Donaghy, Mansoor and others.
It’s unclear whether the NSA approved Raven’s operations against specific targets.
The agreement clearly forbade CyberPoint employees from targeting American citizens or companies.
As part of the agreement, CyberPoint promised that its own staff and even Emirati personnel supporting the program
“will not be used to Exploit U.S. Persons, (i.e. U.S. citizens, permanent resident aliens, or U.S. companies.)” Sharing
classified U.S. information, controlled military technology, or the intelligence collection methods of U.S. agencies was
also prohibited.
Gumtow declined to discuss the specifics of the agreement. “To the best of my ability and to the best of my knowledge,
we did everything as requested when it came to U.S. rules and regulations,” he said. “And we provided a mechanism
for people to come to me if they thought that something that was done was wrong.”
An NSA spokesman declined to comment on Project Raven.
A State Department spokesman declined to comment on the agreement but said such licenses do not authorize people
to engage in human rights abuses. By late 2015, some Raven operatives said their missions became more audacious.
For instance, instead of being asked to hack into individual users of an Islamist Internet forum, as before, the American
contractors were called on to create computer viruses that would infect every person visiting a flagged site.
Such wholesale collection efforts risked sweeping in the communications of American citizens, stepping over a line the
operators knew well from their NSA days.
U.S. law generally forbids the NSA, CIA and other U.S. intelligence agencies from monitoring U.S. citizens.
Working together with managers, Stroud helped create a policy for what to do when Raven swept up personal data
belonging to Americans. The former NSA employees were instructed to mark that material for deletion. Other Raven
operatives would also be notified so the American victims could be removed from future collection.
As time went on, Stroud noticed American data flagged for removal show up again and again in Raven’s NESA-controlled
data stores.
Still, she found the work exhilarating. “It was incredible because there weren’t these limitations like there was at the NSA.
There wasn’t that bullshit red tape,” she said. “I feel like we did a lot of good work on counterterrorism.”
DARKMATTER AND DEPARTURES
When Raven was created in 2009, Abu Dhabi had little cyber expertise. The original idea was for Americans to develop
and run the program for five to 10 years until Emirati intelligence officers were skilled enough to take over, documents show.
By 2013, the American contingent at Raven numbered between a dozen and 20 members at any time, accounting for the
majority of the staff.
In late 2015, the power dynamic at the Villa shifted as the UAE grew more uncomfortable with a core national security program
being controlled by foreigners, former staff said. Emirati defense officials told Gumtow they wanted Project Raven to be run
through a domestic company, named DarkMatter.
Raven’s American creators were given two options: Join DarkMatter or go home.
At least eight operatives left Raven during this transition period. Some said they left after feeling unsettled about the vague
explanations Raven managers provided when pressed on potential surveillance against other Americans.
DarkMatter was founded in 2014 by Faisal Al Bannai, who also created Axiom, one of the largest sellers of mobile devices
in the region. DarkMatter markets itself as an innovative developer of defensive cyber technology. A 2016 Intercept article
reported the company assisted UAE’s security forces in surveillance efforts and was attempting to recruit foreign cyber experts.
The Emirati company of more than 650 employees publicly acknowledges its close business relationship to the UAE government,
but denies involvement in state-backed hacking efforts. Project Raven’s true purpose was kept secret from most executives at
DarkMatter, former operatives said.
DarkMatter did not respond to requests for comment. Al Bannai and the company’s current chief executive, Karim Sabbagh,
did not respond to interview requests. A spokeswoman for the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs declined to comment.
Under DarkMatter, Project Raven continued to operate in Abu Dhabi from the Villa, but pressure escalated for the program to
become more aggressive.
Before long, senior NESA officers were given more control over daily functions, former Raven operatives said, often leaving
American managers out of the loop. By mid-2016, the Emirates had begun making an increasing number of sections of Raven
hidden from the Americans still managing day-to-day operations.
Soon, an “Emirate-eyes only” designation appeared for some hacking targets.
FBI QUESTIONS
By 2016, FBI agents began approaching DarkMatter employees reentering the United States to ask about Project Raven,
three former operatives said. The FBI wanted to know: Had they been asked to spy on Americans? Did classified information
on U.S. intelligence collection techniques and technologies end up in the hands of the Emiratis?
Two agents approached Stroud in 2016 at Virginia’s Dulles airport as she was returning to the UAE after a trip home. Stroud,
afraid she might be under surveillance by the UAE herself, said she brushed off the FBI investigators.
“I’m not telling you guys jack,” she recounted.
Stroud had been promoted and given even more access to internal Raven databases the previous year.
A lead analyst, her job was to probe the accounts of potential Raven targets and learn what vulnerabilities could be used to
penetrate their email or messaging systems. Targets were listed in various categories, by country. Yemeni targets were in the
“brown category,” for example. Iran was gray.
One morning in spring 2017, after she finished her own list of targets, Stroud said she began working on a backlog of other
assignments intended for a NESA officer. She noticed that a passport page of an American was in the system. When Stroud
emailed supervisors to complain, she was told the data had been collected by mistake and would be deleted, according to an
email reviewed by Reuters.
Concerned, Stroud began searching a targeting request list usually limited to Raven’s Emirati staff, which she was still able to
access because of her role as lead analyst. She saw that security forces had sought surveillance against two other Americans.
When she questioned the apparent targeting of Americans, she received a rebuke from an Emirati colleague for accessing the
targeting list, the emails show.
The target requests she viewed were to be processed by “certain people. You are not one of them,” the Emirati officer wrote.
Days later, Stroud said she came upon three more American names on the hidden targeting queue.
Those names were in a category she hadn’t seen before: the “white category” -for Americans. This time, she said, the occupations
were listed: journalist.
“I was sick to my stomach,” she said. “It kind of hit me at that macro level realizing there was a whole category for U.S. persons
on this program.” Once more, she said she turned to manager Baier. He attempted to downplay the concern and asked her to
drop the issue, she said.
But he also indicated that any targeting of Americans was supposed to be done by Raven’s Emirate staff, said Stroud and two
other people familiar with the discussion.
Stroud’s account of the incidents was confirmed by four other former employees and emails reviewed by Reuters.
When Stroud kept raising questions, she said, she was put on leave by superiors, her phones and passport were taken, and she
was escorted from the building. Stroud said it all happened so quickly she was unable to recall the names of the three U.S. journalists
or other Americans shecame across in the files. “I felt like one of those national security targets,” she said. “I’m stuck in the country,
I’m being surveilled, I can’t leave.”
After two months, Stroud was allowed to return to America. Soon after, she fished out the business card of the FBI agents who had
confronted her at the airport. “I don’t think Americans should be doing this to other Americans,” she told Reuters. “I’m a spy, I get that.
I’m an intelligence officer, but I’m not a bad one.”...'
12-05-2019, 07:46 PM (This post was last modified: 12-05-2019, 07:52 PM by Mystic Wanderer.)
Gee, we just keep finding out how corrupt the government is. Will we ever get a whistle-blower who knows the truth to come out and tell us that these dead babies have been voting in our elections? And, if true, you can rest assured the vote was for a democrat!
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Today I learned that California dems pushed a law in 1997 to prevent issuing a death certificate to some aborted babies. What are the chances these aborted babies are now casting votes?
Patrick Ryan AKA Make Neanderthals Great Again
@emblem21CEO
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Did you know that, according to California law in 1997, if a baby was forcibly born before 20 weeks of gestation and died during the procedure, a birth certificate had to be issued, but a death certificate didn't? That would put those legally not-dead aborted at 22 years old now.
Has President Trump's crackdown on child trafficking caused a shortage of adrenochrome for the "elite"? They have to find some other way to get their high now, right?
Quote:Madonna has blood drawn, mixed with ozone gas and put back in with IV drip with her children by her side during Madame X Tour 'rehab'... after canceling shows for health issues
The 61-year-old is receiving help from osteopath Jean Michel Ete and had ozone mixed with her blood in a treatment known as autohemotherapy
Her twin daughters Stelle and Estere, seven, were at her bedside in 'rehab' footage she posted to Instagram
Madonna canceled three shows this past weekend at Boston's Boch Center Wang Theater after suffering health problems
She wrote on Instagram that 'the pain I’m in right now is overwhelming and I must rest and follow doctors orders so i can come back stronger and better'
The pop star will resume her tour with four gigs at the Metropolitan Opera House in Philadelphia beginning this Saturday
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(12-06-2019, 09:16 PM)Mystic Wanderer Wrote: Has President Trump's crackdown on child trafficking caused a shortage of adrenochrome for the "elite"?
They have to find some other way to get their high now, right?
IPOT decodes the latest Q posts. I have to say, he is becoming my favorite Q decoder. He keeps most of his videos around 30 minutes to an hour, and he covers connections to the posts that some others might not. I do still follow a couple of others because they all bring something to the table that the others don't.
Katie G. from Citizens Investigative Report is the best for DEEP dives, if you have 1.5 hours to watch and want to see where all the rabbit holes go.
I still go to Neon Revolt's website to read his articles too. He's another one who goes into deep dives, but you can read his articles at your own pace.
Did you all know that Watter's World covered Q on his show last night on Fox News? Yeah, Q is going main stream, which means more eyes on. He actually did a descent report instead of a "hit job" like the other news outlets previously. The show from last night is shown in the video below.
The bad thing is, when the public starts to google Q all they will see are all the hit pieces/smears that MSM have done on the movement in the past because Google is another arm of the Cabal, apparently. They are suppressing the truth just like MSM.
If there are any new eyes out there who don't know about Q, let me tell you, the Anons are not violent people, and they aren't crazy, so please ignore any MSM news that has previously been reported concerning Q. They don't have a clue what they're talking about. They are "fake news" regarding Q just like everything else they report.
@"Mystic Wanderer" I watched this earlier, yes he does a great job of explaining "Q" post.
Not enough of the Left being Red-Pilled though, they are Brainwashed by the MSM.
I would also like to see more people watch these posts.
(12-10-2019, 09:56 PM)Mystic Wanderer Wrote: Just about to watch this, but thought I'd throw it up here first for my friends across the pond to watch before bedtime.
Ben and Rob from Edge of Wonder had a fantastic guest on tonight, John DeSouza. He is a retired FBI agent who gets into some really interesting topics.
I hope you'll take time to settle back and listen. This is a good one!
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