NSA links to St Petersburg FL Drug Ring. Skyway Global LLC, the St. Petersburg, FL company that owned the DC-9 airline busted in Mexico carrying 5.5 tons of cocaine, made its headquarters in a 79,000 sq ft building owned by Verint Systems (NASDAQ: VRNT), a foreign tele-communications company with a contract to wiretap the U.S. for the NSA through the communication lines of Verizon, which handles almost half of all landline and cell phone calls in the U.S. Verint’s founder and CEO, Jacob “Kobi” Alexander, is a former Israeli intelligence officer who is today a fugitive from justice living in Namibia, where he has for several years been fighting extradition to the U.S. On Verint’s Board of Directors is Lieutenant General Kenneth A. Minihan, former director of the NSA, which has led to speculation that the company today is a joint NSA-Mossad operation. Verint is one of those two “mysterious companies.” Definition of "making a start": Two recent convictions "Some guy in Costa Rica" Musical chairs and the "known unknowns" Do the math.
US-Israeli Security Company Selling Mobile Phone Surveillance Products To Agencies Around The World. Privacy International, which has done a very thorough job digging into the backgrounds of the many private companies involved in the surveillance "industry" around the world, has just released a promotional document from the American-Israeli Verint, a security company that provides NSA-level cell phone surveillance power to entities around the world. [A] scaled down version of this system is also being sold by private surveillance contractors to the highest bidder. The company behind it? Israeli-American company Verint. Their Skylock technology claims to have the ability to "Remotely locate GSM and UMTS targets located anywhere in the world at cell level precision". The brochure Privacy Int'l obtained doesn't go into detail as to how it achieves this, but what is shown is both impressive and disturbing.
From a brochure collected this year we have discovered one of the newest additions to Verint's product line: mobile phone tracking on an international scale. MossadGate: NSA Prism Mossad Spying 'Cousins' Out of the Closet Mossad - Verin, Narus, NICE, Amdocs, Unit-8200, Pioneer and Kidon. The secret Narus spy software at Folsom Street. The secret Narus spy software at Folsom Street The venture capital-backed Silicon Valley company Narus has found itself at the center of a legal fight over domestic spying.
We're now wondering how its software is being used abroad in places like China and the Middle East. Narus is based in Mountain View, and makes a network management software. This week, the Electronic Frontier Foundation filed documents contending Narus' software was plugged into AT&T's network as part of a massive surveillance program conducted by the National Security Agency -- to eavesdrop on Americans' international phone calls and e-mails. President Bush signed a secret order in 2002 authorizing the NSA project. Our Mercury News colleague Elise Ackerman has the story today (free registration). We're not sure if this is negative publicity for the company, or positive, because it has given Narus' chief executive a grand platform to talk about Narus' unique properties: Good stuff.
This really about a ship of fools. Jon Rappoport: NSA as Front for Two Israeli Companies, Narus and Verint, Specializing in Mass Surveillance & Getting Zionist Copy of Everything. Jon Rappoport NSA, the secret AT&T spy room, and 2 Israeli companies Boom. Explosive revelations. The NSA is using telecom giants to spy on anybody and everybody, in a program called PRISM. But the information is not new. Three books have been written about the super-secret NSA, and James Bamford has written them all . In 2008, Amy Goodman of Democracy Now interviewed Bamford as his latest book, The Shadow Factory: The NSA from 9/11 to the Eavesdropping on America, was being released. Bamford explained that, in the 1990s, everything changed for NSA. But with the shift to fiber-optic cables, NSA was shut out. For example, they set up a secret spy room at an AT&T office in San Francisco. How Bamford describes this, in 2008, tells you exactly where the PRISM program came from: “NSA began making these agreements with AT&T and other companies, and that in order to get access to the actual cables, they had to build these secret rooms in these buildings.
Bamford: “Yeah. The lies lying liars tell.