the national news. as luck would have it, we brought you the story for the first time a week ago at this time. it s a story out of new mexico. just tonight as we are getting on the air, there is a major development in that story tonight and it is a shocking one. i imagine given these new developments in the story, this will not be the only place you will be hearing about this over the next several days. all right, what we were able to tell you last week is news of a spate of recent shootings that had targeted the homes and offices of at least a half dozen elected officials in new mexico, all of them members of the democratic party. no one was injured in these shootings. these shootings hit buildings, not people. but they apparently had all been targeted at democratic politicians during december and january. so just over the last few weeks. we first learned of the shootings at five homes and offices belonging to some county commissioners and two state senators and new mexico s
targeted at democratic politicians during december and january. just over the last few weeks. we first learned of the shootings at five homes and offices belonging to county commissioners and two state senators and new mexico s newly elected democratic attorney general. then we learned that there is also been an additional shooting at the house of the incoming speaker of the new mexico state legislature. we have since learned some additional details about the shootings targeting individual democratic politicians. it is alarming, it is not an individual pot shot here in there. for example, on december 4th, it was a shots that were fired into a home of one democratic count county commissioner in new mexico. that was december 4th. then on december 11th, it was 12 bullets that were fired into the home of a county commissioner, again, this is all in new mexico, all democrats. december 4th at one politicians home, he s a county commissioner, a shots fired into his home. a week l
once this project exposed that this kind of surveillance was happening, the u.s. government did an unexpectedly stand up and strong thing, they blacklisted the company that makes pegasus, and they banned the use of texas software in the united states. that can stop it around the world, this is still a life issue, is actually still a live issue in the united states. just last week, the supreme court let the company whatsapp go ahead and sue the company that makes pegasus. what s up gets to sue pegasus, gets to see the company that makes pegasus for using their software to break into peoples phones and spy on peoples encrypted messages on whatsapp so that the civil lawsuit is going to go ahead, that can be
if this anti-democratic authoritarian nightmare cannot be safely reported upon, it won t be understood. and if it isn t understood, there s no chance that it will be stopped. again, that s from the introduction i did to this book, pegasus which comes out tonight at midnight. i did not write the whole book, i just did the introduction because i think the story is incredible. and the story has developed in the united states in really interesting ways. once this international reporting project exposed this kind of surveillance was happening, the u.s. government did an unexpectedly stand up and strong thing. they black listed the company that makes pegasus and banned the use of pegasus software in the united states. that didn t stop it around the world. this is still a live issue. it s still a live issue in the united states. just last week the u.s. supreme court let the company whatsapp go ahead and sue the company that makes pegasus.
i just did the introduction because i think the story is incredible. and the story has developed in the united states in really interesting ways. once this international reporting project exposed this kind of surveillance was happening, the u.s. government did an unexpectedly stand up and strong thing. they black listed the company that makes pegasus and banned the use of pegasus software in the united states. that didn t stop it around the world. this is still a live issue. it s still a live issue in the united states. just last week the u.s. supreme court let the company whatsapp go ahead and sue the company that makes pegasus. whatsapp gets to sue pegasus sue the company that makes pegasus for using their software to break into people s phones and spy on people s encrypted messages on whatsapp, so that intratech civil lawsuit will go ahead and that could be a big deal. this is a live issue. this is hotly contested territory. but it s sort of from the news