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Their god is money: American intelligence contractors working for the UAE

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Reuters published a bombshell story on Wednesday, January 30, based on interviews with participants and leaked documents, revealing how former National Security Agency contractors set up an offensive cyber-espionage unit in a converted mansion in the United Arab Emirates. The targets of this computer hacking unit included journalists, human rights activists, and a number of American citizens.

Previously, BuzzFeed broke a story about American special operations veterans contracting for the UAE in Yemen. NEWSREP followed up on this story with an exclusive interview with Dale Comstock, a former Delta Force operator who worked on that contract in a direct action capacity. The former Green Berets, SEALs, and Delta operators were assigned targets by a UAE intelligence officer. Those targets were ostensibly members of al-Qaeda, but the lines blurred as some of those targets appeared to be political rather than military in nature.

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  • Musashi

    It sounds like a Deckard novel, oh wait…good story Jack.

  • Andy T

    Im not sure why its so easy to believe that the Obama admin intelligence community leadership did NOT approve of this. And to date, I dont think Ed Snowden’s FSB handler has been unmasked. I wonder when and how Lisa Stroudt met Ed Snowden, and if in Hawaii was the first time they met, and who may have introduced them, why she recommended he join her NSA project team in Hawaii which got him the access to everything he made his way to Moscow with shortly after.

  • Brandon Webb

    Good piece Jack.

  • Dylan K

    Disturbing to say the least.

  • Jack Murphy

    Not too far off…