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Posted on 02/08/2019 5:12:59 AM PST by yesthatjallen
A reporter at the Washington Post says that an investigator hired by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos believes that text messages leaked to the National Enquirer between Bezos and his girlfriend may have been sent to the magazine by someone in government.
In an appearance on MSNBC on Thursday, Post reporter Manuel Roig-Franzia said that Bezos's security consultant Gavin de Becker believes that National Enquirer obtained text messages from Bezos through inappropriate means.
Bezos on Thursday said in a blog post that the Enquirer was attempting to force him to call off his investigation of the tabloid under the threat of further texts being released.
“They have begun to believe, the Bezos camp, that this publication by the National Enquirer might have been politically motivated,” Roig-Franzia said Thursday.
“Gavin de Becker told us that he does not believe that Jeff Bezos’s phone was hacked, he thinks it’s possible that a government entity might have gotten hold of his text messages,” he added.
De Becker's assertion that Bezos's phone was not hacked raises questions as to how staffers at the Enquirer obtained messages that were allegedly sent privately between Bezos and his rumored girlfriend, former TV anchor Lauren Sanchez.
The Enquirer is owned by David Pecker, a top ally of President Trump. Pecker has been accused of helping the president kill unfavorable stories about his past affairs during the 2016 election.
Bezos and Trump have feuded publicly over Amazon and its relationship with the federal government, as well as over Bezos's ownership of The Washington Post, which the president says unfairly targets him with negative news coverage.
In a Medium post Thursday night, the Amazon CEO vowed not to fall for "extortion" tactics from Pecker and American Media Inc., which owns the Enquirer.
"Rather than capitulate to extortion and blackmail, I’ve decided to publish exactly what [American Media Inc. (AMI)] sent me, despite the personal cost and embarrassment they threaten," Bezos wrote.
Lol. So why are you spewing the Hill of trash’s hearsay from the Washington Compost here? Why not just post the Compost? Do you work for the Hill of trash?
Bozo: Trump stole my d***-pic!
Yup, payback’s a bi#$h.
Huh, you’d imagine they’d confirm that both phones weren’t hacked which leads them to believe some outside agency provided the texts... Yet oddly they assert only Bezos’ phone wasn’t hacked.
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First thing I noticed as well.
Aren’t all these involved pics ones that were sent to the girlfriend’s phone? If that is the case, then it is one of only 2 phones.
But if the pictures were sent to several different numbers, and the only commonality is the source phone, then it would pretty unlikely that several destination phones happened to be hacked.
So, somebody on Bezo’s payroll comes out and blames a “government entity” for Bezo’s problems yet doesn’t offer a shred of evidence to back it up. And that’s supposed to mean something? Sounds like he’s just saying what he’s being paid to say.
At the Washington Post it is okay for the government to leak information to the paper for publication, so long as the leaked information attacks the President. But, it is “wrong” if the government leaks information to another media source that is damaging to Bezos. Makes perfect sense to me.
National Enquirer **^^might^^** have been politically motivated.
That word again sure gets used a lot when no answers are known.
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