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if Mohammed Bone Saw is behind this also, then wow, just wow. His Highness is really dumber than a saw handle.
Can't you just picture him being on a call with Trump and casually saying this was something he could do, and Trump being like yes please thus creating yet another Putin-esque blackmail situation. My gut says that's what this is.
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Those agreements are now void if they've broken the law.
Is that true? I know Manafort's cooperation agreement was nullified, but my understanding is that's because he lied to the special counsel. Which is presumably a crime, but it also violates the spirit of cooperation. I'd assume that in this case the matters are separate. But IANAL, what do I know.
https://attorneyalexhernandez.com/read-david-pecker-ami-plea...
Get the prison cell ready.
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Is that true? I know Manafort's cooperation agreement was nullified, but my understanding is that's because he lied to the special counsel. Which is presumably a crime, but it also violates the spirit of cooperation. I'd assume that in this case the matters are separate. But IANAL, what do I know.
ANY crime committed between Sept. 20, 2018 and Sept. 20, 2021 voids the agreement. https://attorneyalexhernandez.com/read-david-pecker-ami-plea... Get the prison cell ready.
It seems like a lot of people are not reading between the lines of this post. Bezos apparently believes that he was hacked by either the US or Saudi government and that now one or both of those governments are using the National Enquirer as an attack dog against him. That accusation is much bigger than any other piece of this story. EDIT: Here [1] is a reporter from the Washington Post backing that up. The Bezos' cam…
Apparently Bezos's mistress's password is in haveibeenpwned.com so this very likely didn't require a government entity. https://blog.erratasec.com/2019/02/how-bezos-dick-pics-might...
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Not all Presidents or foreign powers are obsessed with finding and collecting dirt on their enemies with the intent to harm or influence them. Wether you call it gaining influence or blackmail, it's usually the technique of authoritarians or the corrupt and not a path we want to advocate or even tolerate.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Edgar_Hoover
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I think the point is that it doesn't require the power of a government agency to get anybody's images off their phone. It could be a government, it it could be Bezos' wife, Sanchez's brother or ex husband, or just someone with a knack for social engineering who thought there was a lot of money to be made.
Could it also be someone with a stringray who intercepted Jeff's correspondence to and from Sanchez?
If you want exotic explanations, the images could have been recovered by Van Eck phreaking too, I suppose.
More likely explanation is something like the geek squad scandal where someone with physical access to the device (e.g. cell phone repairman, personal assistant, hotel maid) copied the photos.
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I think it's that people are allergic to partisan flamebait, with good reason. Also, these comments usually break the site guidelines. So do comments alleging astroturfing and related things (bottage, shillage) without evidence, so could you guys please not post those? https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Except that it is factual that AMI is involved in a criminal enterprise, since they plead guilty to crimes involving improper attempts to influence the 2016 election.
Beyond that, there is huge variation in how one phrases facts and how they relate to context. None of that is neutral or factual, even if the selected facts themselves are.
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Probably more to do with the fact that there's so much high quality porn on the internet that we're honestly desensitized to amateur quality celeb nudes. Briefly intriguing, but overall rather "meh?" Granted, I could just be projecting, but I don't think I'm alone here.
I think I speak for the majority of humanity when I say I have zero desire to see Jeff Bezos’ package. There’s a reason tabloids stick to celebrities.