Gantz demands AG probe whether Netanyahu leaked Iran phone hack claims: "the information could only have come from intelligence agencies or the civilian National Cyber Directorate, all of which are under the Prime Minister’s Office." - Sunday March 17th, 2019 at 4:51 AM

"Blue and White also noted in the three days since the initial Thursday report that if it was accurate, the information could only have come from intelligence agencies or the civilian National Cyber Directorate, all of which are under the Prime Minister’s Office." 

Gantz demands AG probe whether Netanyahu leaked Iran phone hack claims

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The Blue and White party has asked the attorney general to investigate a report last week that claimed Iran had hacked into party leader Benny Gantz’s cellphone and collected purportedly compromising information on him.

Gantz, a former chief of staff of the Israel Defense Forces, has roundly denied the reports, calling the leak “political gossip” and noting that the Likud party was jumping on the news as fodder for campaign videos.

Blue and White also noted in the three days since the initial Thursday report that if it was accurate, the information could only have come from intelligence agencies or the civilian National Cyber Directorate, all of which are under the Prime Minister’s Office.

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“Given that the ‘hack’ reportedly took place a long time ago, and given that it’s inconceivable that a source in the security services would leak details about an alleged ‘Iranian hack,’ and noting the timing of the ‘leak’ [in the middle of an election campaign] — it was clearly done by someone who has access to sensitive defense information and possesses an interest in harming Gantz,” the party charged in an official appeal to Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit on Saturday night.

The letter accused Netanyahu of orchestrating the leak in an act that constitutes “the most severe breach of trust,” charging that “there is a series of indications that trace a path for the ‘leak’ to a very specific office in Jerusalem.” It also claimed there are “a growing number of indications that this won’t be a one-time ‘leak.'”

Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit speaks during a conference at the national library in Jerusalem on June 6, 2018. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

It asked the attorney general to “order the prime minister, who oversees the National Cyber Directorate, to act within the bounds of his legal obligations, and avoid making personal and political use of agencies under his purview or [intelligence] information placed before him”

And it demanded “a swift, comprehensive and determined inquiry to discover the source of the ‘leak.'”

Netanyahu and his Likud party have roundly denied the accusations, saying in a Saturday night campaign video that the attempt to blame the prime minister for the leak was meant “to distort the fact that the Iranian regime openly supports” Gantz’s candidacy.

The initial Thursday report on Channel 12 news said that Iranian intelligence had hacked Gantz’s personal cellphone and obtained access to all its contents.

A follow-up report on Saturday night said that no sensitive security information was housed on Gantz’s phone at the time of the breach.

Blue and White party leader Benny Gantz holds a press conference in Kibbutz Nahal Oz in southern Israel on March 15, 2019. (Flash90)

The reports cited unnamed security officials.

After the news broke, Shin Bet chief Nadav Argaman said his agency had not briefed Netanyahu about any such hack.

But Blue and White said the information likely came from the Mossad intelligence agency, now headed by Netanyahu’s former national security adviser Yossi Cohen, and from the National Cyber Directorate, which Netanyahu founded and oversees as part of the Prime Minister’s Office.

In the days since the report, Likud’s campaign has pivoted from accusing Gantz of being a “leftist” to arguing that he is the preferred candidate of the regime in Tehran.

The Saturday night Likud ad quoted a February report in Iran’s state radio propaganda broadcasts in Hebrew.

Head of the Shin Bet security service Nadav Argaman attends the Defense and Foreign Affairs Committee meeting at the Knesset on November 6, 2018. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

“Former chief of staff Benny Gantz has presented a real leadership alternative to Benjamin Netanyahu,” the Iranian broadcaster is heard saying. “Hopefully, he will succeed in this mission.”

Likud has also claimed that Tehran prefers Gantz and Blue and White no. 2 Yair Lapid because they purportedly supported the 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and six world powers, whereas Netanyahu fought against it.

In fact, Lapid opposed the 2015 accord, but argued after it was finalized that it was unwise to antagonize the Obama administration that had championed it. Similarly, Gantz was not enthusiastic about the agreement, but after it was signed, he said he refused to get “hysterical” about it.

“I do agree that a better deal could have been reached,” he said in 2015, shortly after leaving his post as army chief of staff. “But I also see the half-full part of the glass here,” he added, noting that the deal keeps Iran away from a nuclear weapons capability “for ten, fifteen years into the future.”

Blue and White issued its own election ad on Saturday evening in which the centrist party’s top candidates list their military achievements and tell Netanyahu: “You don’t teach us about leadership, and certainly not about national responsibility.”

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (top right) meets with security brass at the IDF’s Kirya military headquarters in Tel Aviv on March 14, 2019. (Ariel Hermoni/Defense Ministry)

On Saturday night, Lapid accused Netanyahu of “spinning” the phone hack story to distract attention from the corruption allegations against him, from criticism of his Gaza policy amid a new round of tensions with Hamas, and from his “lies.”

Netanyahu “lies when he breathes,” said Lapid. Only the prime minister had the wherewithal and the motivation to spin the phone hack story, Lapid insisted, and now “he’s sitting in his office laughing and laughing.”

In its Thursday report, Channel 12 said that Gantz was approached five weeks ago by officials from the Shin Bet who informed him that his personal phone had been hacked by Iran following his formal entry into politics in December.

The Shin Bet agents reportedly told Gantz that hackers in Iran got hold of his personal details and text messages and that he should assume that any sensitive information in the phone could be used against him in the future. They told him to proceed as he saw fit.

Blue and White has stressed no sensitive information was on Gantz’s phone and noted it was hacked four years after he retired as chief of staff.

Blue and White’s Moshe Ya’alon is seen during a visit to the Gaza border area with other members of the party on March 13, 2019. (Flash90)

On Friday, former defense minister and senior Blue and White candidate Moshe Ya’alon asserted that Iran was not behind the hack of Gantz’s cellphone, while accusing Netanyahu of leaking the story to the media.

Ya’alon did not say explicitly who he believed had hacked the phone, but hinted that Netanyahu was involved.

“The Iranians are not behind the hack, they aren’t the ones attacking the prime minister’s rivals. Someone has debased the political system and is willing to sacrifice all other values for political survival,” Ya’alon said in an interview with Channel 13 news.

Pressed on whether he was suggesting the Shin Bet had invented the story, Ya’alon said he was “convinced” the security service was not behind it.

“I know the defense establishment, and I also know the prime minister’s world,” he said. “This did not come from the Shin Bet.”

In a press conference Friday near the Gaza border, Gantz dismissed the news of the hacking of his phone as “political gossip” and questioned the timing of the report, which came as Blue and White has seen its lead over Likud slip in the polls ahead of general elections on April 9.

Asked if there was any embarrassing content on the phone, Gantz said he would not dignify such “ethical nosiness” with a response. His party had earlier said there were “no embarrassing videos” on the phone. Asked if the phone contained material relating to any relationship with a woman that might be used to extort him, he dismissed the notion.

“Someone is pushing this spin, and turning the real problem into one that does not exist,” he said.

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Academic in Cambridge Analytica data mining sues Facebook for defamation

Saturday March 16th, 2019 at 9:39 PM

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By Anna Schecter

Aleksandr Kogan, the academic who mined Facebook for the data firm linked to Donald Trump's presidential campaign, Cambridge Analytica, filed a defamation suit against the social network Friday before the statute of limitations would have run out.

It was a Friday night exactly one year ago when Facebook “tried to get ahead of the Cambridge Analytica story,” in Kogan’s words, and issued a statement accusing him of deceiving the company when he developed his app in 2014, allowing him to collect Facebook data for Cambridge Analytica, the U.K.-based data firm that worked on Trump’s campaign.

Kogan told NBC News that he had been waiting on investigations by the Department of Justice, the Security and Exchange Commission and the Federal Election Commission of the Cambridge Analytica scandal to wrap up before filing, but the statute of limitations “forced our hand.” News of the lawsuit was first reported by the New York Times.

“Certainly my preference was to not file before the government investigations had concluded. That’s why we didn’t file this thing six months ago. We had no choice but to file Friday,” Kogan said Saturday in a phone interview.

Kogan, who currently works at a tech firm in Buffalo, New York, has maintained for months that his app that mined Facebook user profile data and the data of friends who downloaded his app was standard operating procedure for hundreds if not thousands of apps.

He has told NBC News that he had a working relationship with Facebook until the Cambridge Analytica scandal brought bad press to the company.

“This is a frivolous lawsuit from someone who recklessly violated our policies and put people's data at risk,” Facebook spokesman Andy Stone said Saturday.

Kogan’s lawyer, Steven Cohen, said Facebook found “a convenient scapegoat” in Kogan.

"They accused him of being a liar and a fraud and they knew that wasn’t the truth and that’s the standard for defamation for a public person," Cohen said. "Alex Kogan was clearly not a public figure, rather he was thrust into the limelight by Facebook's defamation.”

Cohen said Facebook strategically referred to Kogan as a “Russian American” in its statement.

“They were reacting to all the negative publicity they posed for allowing Russian trolls to post fake news on Facebook and they found a convenient scapegoat in Alex Kogan.”

Kogan says he gave Facebook the terms of service of his app, and he gave every user the terms of service, and he has acknowledged in past interviews that few people read the fine print, and terms of service should be more user friendly.

“He did not deceive Facebook. He complied with what they told him to comply with,” Cohen said. “In the meantime, he has lost jobs, investors, consulting agreements and his good name. We want nothing more than to put this in front of a jury.”

Anna Schecter is a producer for the investigations unit of NBC News.

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Facebook Accused Of Cambridge Analytica 'Cover-up' As Criminal Prosecutors Investigate

Saturday March 16th, 2019 at 9:38 PM

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The worst week in Facebook's history showed no signs of letting up this weekend, with fresh accusations in the Observer of an executive-level cover-up of the company's involvement in Cambridge Analytica's data harvesting as well as news that the academic behind the scheme, Aleksandr Kogan, is suing the social media giant for defamation, for faking ignorance and for using him as a scapegoat when they were aware of events all along.

In the last week, the company has suffered its largest technical outage, endured revelations of a grand jury investigation in New York into the trading of should-be private user data with other technology companies, witnessed the tragic right-wing shooting in New Zealand live-streamed on its network, overseen the departures of chief product officer Chris Cox and head of WhatsApp Chris Daniels and caused a major own-goal by removing presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren's campaign ads after she announced a proposal to break up the company.

Some week, even for Facebook. And there's still the likelihood of that multi-billion-dollar FTC fine to come.

As I wrote on Thursday, the super-outage coinciding with headlines of a New York grand jury investigation is an unfortunate coincidence, but an apt one. The omens for regulation of social media's apparent license to roam freely around the world and across billions of users are now there for all to see.

The Cambridge Analytica scandal, "the story of how whistleblower Christopher Wylie built media mogul Steve Bannon’s 'psychological warfare tool' by harvesting millions of people’s Facebook profiles", marked a sea change for Facebook's image. This weekend is the 12-month anniversary of that news, and it's a year that seemingly keeps getting worse and from which Facebook and its CEO Mark Zuckerberg can't find any respite.

The dominos begin falling

Facebook has consistently blamed Aleksandr Kogan for the Cambridge Analytica scandal, admitting their own culpability for lapse governance but not for knowing what was actually taking place. The academic used Facebook's third-party data-sharing tools to invite 300,000 users to play games, which in turn opened up access to their 87 million friends. That is the data at the heart of the scandal. Data that was mined, allegedly with overseas (read Russian) interference to help shape electoral intentions in various campaigns, most notably Trump and Brexit.

Commenting on Aleksandr Kogan's suit, his lawyer Steve Cohen said that “Alex did not lie, Alex was not a fraud, Alex did not deceive them, this was not a scam. Facebook knew exactly what this app was doing, or should have known. Facebook desperately needed a scapegoat, and Alex was their scapegoat.”

Kogan claims that Facebook sought to scapegoat him, despite being aware of what was going on throughout. Facebook has maintained that they were led to believe the data being harvested was for academic purposes only, and not for use as a data-driven exercise in political manipulation. When they found out the data had been passed on by Kogan, they sought its deletion and severed the relationship. This was long before the Trump campaign and its 'Defeat Crooked Hilary' videos on Facebook.

Responding to the latest news, a Facebook spokesperson dismissed Kogan's lawsuit as “frivolous" and the academic as a person "who violated our policies and put people’s data at risk.”

But there's more

On Saturday, the Observer went further than Kogan, claiming that Facebook executives had insight into what Cambridge Analytica was planning in 2016, as the firm began its work for the Trump campaign, facts that will be in evidence "as federal prosecutors investigate claims that the social media giant has covered up the extent of its relationship with the firm."

The claims center on an alleged meeting between Facebook board member Marc Andreessen and the Cambridge Analytica whistleblower Christopher Wylie, two years before he came forward to the press. "Individuals who attended the meeting with Wylie and Andreessen claim it was set up to learn what Cambridge Analytica was doing with Facebook’s data and how technologists could work to 'fix' it."

A year ago, Zuckerberg claimed in a blog post that "last week we learned from the Guardian, the New York Times and Channel 4 that Cambridge Analytica may not have deleted the data as they had certified." The latest allegations materially refute that claim.

The Observer article quotes 'a Silicon Valley technologist' with knowledge of the meeting saying: “There were people who were very concerned by the reports of what Cambridge Analytica was doing with data, and the meeting was set up to try and find out as much about the exploit as possible in order to figure out possible solutions. That’s why Wylie was invited. They wanted his knowledge. He was asked a lot of questions including about the company’s contacts with Russian entities.”

If the new allegations are true, it is "a hugely embarrassing revelation for Facebook, which was revealed last week to be the subject of a criminal investigation into whether it had covered up the extent of its involvement with Cambridge Analytica."

The Observer reports that Facebook declined to answer any questions about their claims.

Regulation looms

Before the weekend, with news of a grand jury investigation into the casual sale of users' privacy, it was clear that the case for regulation if not the break-up of the social media giants is now uncontestable.

A year ago, before these latest allegations came to light, the Observer commented: "What the Cambridge Analytica story exposed, by accident, from Facebook’s reaction in the months that followed, is the absolute power of the tech giants. Power and unaccountability that is the foundational platform on which populist authoritarians are rising to power all across the globe. Power and unaccountability that continues unchecked."

The hard truth is that what was known 12-months ago only scratched the surface of what we have discovered since. The honeymoon we have all enjoyed with social media is now so badly tarnished it dominates the headlines week after week. And it has become a major political issue around the world, which will undoubtedly find its way into many more campaigns and manifestos that Senator Warren's alone.

In making her case for the break-up of Big Tech, the Senator said "today's big tech companies have too much power -- too much power over our economy, our society, and our democracy. They've bulldozed competition, used our private information for profit, and tilted the playing field against everyone else. And in the process, they have hurt small businesses and stifled innovation."

It's hard to argue.

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Gantz demands AG probe whether Netanyahu leaked Iran phone hack claims - Google Search

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Gantz demands AG probe whether Netanyahu leaked Iran phone hack ...

The Times of Israel-2 hours ago

Gantz demands AG probe whether Netanyahu leaked Iran phone hack ... claimed Iran had hacked into party leader Benny Gantz's cellphone ...

Blue and White demands AG probe leak of Iran hacking Gantz phone
International-The Jerusalem Post-9 hours ago

Rouhani claims Israel, US behind deadly suicide bombing in Iran

The Times of Israel-Feb 14, 2019

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Thursday blamed the suicide bombing ... “If this continues and they cannot stop the terrorists, it is clear — based ... Wednesday's bombing was claimed by the jihadist Jaish al-Adl (Army of ... Gantz demands AG probe whether Netanyahu leaked Iran phone hack claims.

Tehran-Beirut cargo flight sparks concerns Iran arming Hezbollah ...

The Times of Israel-Nov 29, 2018

Israeli and American security officials have long claimed that Iran has been ... Yemen, but did not specify if that spending has increased in recent years. ... In September, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu brandished pictures ... Gantz demands AG probe whether Netanyahu leaked Iran phone hack claims.

New Right said seeking bloc with Likud, Kulanu and Yisrael Beytenu

The Times of Israel-Feb 3, 2019

With Benny Gantz's Israel Resilience party soaring in the polls after announcing ... If we are not big, Netanyahu will again give the Justice Ministry to ... “the next generation of the right” and claiming it was in the interest of other ... Gantz demands AG probe whether Netanyahu leaked Iran phone hack claims.

Putin absolves Israel in downing of spy plane, but warns PM: Don't let ...

The Times of Israel-Sep 18, 2018

Netanyahu told Putin that Israel was “determined” to prevent Iranian ... This appeared to refute the claim made by Moscow that the Israeli pilots ...

PM must be indicted for bribery, conviction is guaranteed, AG's team ...

The Times of Israel-Feb 1, 2019

Responding to the leaked transcripts, Netanyahu issued a statement ... Netanyahu further claimed that Mandelblit's decision on the cases — which he ... Israeli law only requires that a prime minister step down if convicted, but ... After phone hacking, Likud claims Iran pushing for Gantz, Lapid to win election.

True life 'fairy tale' of Nazi-fighting bear to get animated treatment

The Times of Israel-Jan 12, 2019

Poland's Corporal Wojtek, a Syrian brown bear, made his way from Persia, via Palestine, to Europe as a morale booster for troops, and did ...

PM warns Iran: Attack Israel and 'it will be the last anniversary you ...

The Times of Israel-Feb 11, 2019

After IRGC commander threatens to raze Tel Aviv and Haifa if US strikes and pledges support for Hezbollah, Netanyahu tells it not to make ...

In Warsaw, Netanyahu criticized after appearing to push for war ...

The Times of Israel-Feb 13, 2019

Iran's supreme leader says negotiations with the US “will bring nothing but material .... Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is expressing unhappiness with a ... to decide on whether or not to establish the medical school at Ariel University, .... Israel Resilience leader Benny Gantz is calling on Prime Minister ...

Iran attacks Israel in cybersphere 'daily,' Netanyahu charges

The Times of Israel-Jan 29, 2019

Israeli officials have long accused Iran of seeking to hack important systems, ... In his Tuesday speech, Netanyahu also hailed Israel's cybersecurity ... “Civil aviation requires the most immediate treatment for cyber defense,” he said. ... in Beersheba last month launched the emergency phone number 119, ...

Israeli study: 1/4 of Jews killed in Holocaust murdered in 100 days in ...

The Times of Israel-Jan 3, 2019

A new Israeli study claims that almost a quarter of the Jews murdered in the Holocaust were killed during 100 days in 1942, making it the period ...

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1 Israeli killed, 2 critically injured in West Bank terror shootings

Sunday March 17th, 2019 at 5:55 AM

The Times Of Israel

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The Blue and White party has asked the attorney general to investigate a report last week that claimed Iran had hacked into party leader Benny Gantz’s cellphone and collected purportedly compromising information on him.

Gantz, a former chief of staff of the Israel Defense Forces, has roundly denied the reports, calling the leak “political gossip” and noting that the Likud party was jumping on the news as fodder for campaign videos.

Blue and White also noted in the three days since the initial Thursday report that if it was accurate, the information could only have come from intelligence agencies or the civilian National Cyber Directorate, all of which are under the Prime Minister’s Office.

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