NEWS
Big Brother Sees All
by Yitzchok Roth
The storm of lies of the Israeli Police is gathering momentum. The more the department continues to lie, the more it becomes entangled in further prevarication.
To begin with, it categorically denied any usage of the Pegasus spying system against innocent citizens without court orders. After evidence of facts and recordings, its systematic denial turned into a halfhearted admittance. Yes, we did use such methods. Only negligibly, insignificantly - and we will check it out.
But more evidence continued to pour in, and the police continues to embroil itself in so much denial that no one believes them anymore. And then, names of public figures began appearing from all the community sectors and areas against whom the espionage computer program was aimed, and yet, the police continue to deny the facts.
The investigation of the economic publication, Calcalist, exposes the names of dozens of citizens attacked by that program. Its usage did not stop at the scrutiny of people suspected of criminal offenses or of municipal heads, but glided to telephones of directors of government offices and cellular phones of top businessmen. And from there, it was a hop to past Prime Minister advisors and their families, to newspapers and many other public figures. No one was immune to wire tapping and inserting the spy program detector into cell phones, until this practice was no longer occasional but actually systematic.
Just think of the power at the disposal of a police investigator who can penetrate the deepest secrets of every citizens via his cell phone which stores all personal conversations, photos and private film clips which he is certain that are privy to him alone. And then he discovers that a company of police-related investigators has infiltrated to his very home with hidden cameras, revealing everything he thought no one knew or would every know about him...
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