assassination records act that was waived by then-president donald trump. joining me now is fernand amandi, msnbc political analyst, and jefferson morely, editor of the jfk facts blog and author of scorpion s dance, the president, the spy master, and watergate. thank you both for being here. i am fascinated by the subject and have been for a really long time. jefferson, i want to start with you. what are we expected to learn that s new in this document release? what we know that the cia is withholding is their, quote, sources and methods, unquote, around the accused assassin, lee harvey oswald. that means their spying techniques. that means their operational interest in him while president kennedy was still alive, and kind of the backdrop to this story, joy, is the story that hasn t been told is, the cia knew far, far, far more about
facebook just notified thousands of users they were hacked. who are these hackers? a number of groups that meta the parent company of facebook and citizen lab the university of toronto call cyber mercenaries. they notified 50,000 people they had been targeting in more than a hundred countries by seven different firms and organizations essentially spies for hire that offer a whole range of spying techniques. there are a number of companies from israel one called black cube which was used infaumously by harvey weinstein and these groups often say their tools are used against criminals and terrorists but what this report says is that they were used indiscriminately against rights activists and opponents of authoritarian regimes and this does echo another company that got into some trouble nso group another israeli company that the biden administration has accused of their technology targeting
we are going to be working with china. china. china. china. china. china. the u.s. will be keeping a close eye on china next week. the government is expecting chinese spies to be swarming singapore. they are expected to deploy their sophisticated repertoire of intelligence gathering technique. some of the tactics is u.s. is watching out for, paid eves droppers working among the wait staff in singapore restaurants. bugs or other electronic surveillance in the hotel where some of the participants are staying. china could even listen into mobile phones, including when they are turned off. china has apparently become very good at spying techniques. one american official working in china brought a hotel key card back to the u.s. where security found a microphone embedded inside. how is that possible? as a former assistant secretary of state told nbc news, all is fair in love, war, and espionage.
material issues that were being discussed, including what the republican platform was going to say about ukraine and including the trump administration s policy towards sanctions would be. bob, would it be surprising shouldn t it be surprising if the russians didn t use spying techniques? how consistent is this with russia s spying techniques? absolutely, don. and looking at this new rters - president, unpredictable, he seems to be sympathetic to russia but you need to know that from the inside and carter page is put out there as an adviser to trump, you go and try to recruit him, either as a source of information or an agent of influence. either way, they would have gone after this guy. i think that s what the fbi