Jeff Bezos’ investigator suspects 'a government agency' intercepted Amazon CEO's text messages

On MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell show tonight, Roig Franzia of the Washington Post said the security and legal team representing Jeff Bezos believes it's possible the leaks of the Amazon CEO's texts, with accompanying intimate photos, were politically motivated -- and that a “government entity” accessed the material somehow, rather than the phone being hacked.

It's hard to know why they make this claim, without more information. But — WOW. Lots of hoo-boy possibilities if it's true. They're not saying the U.S. government, but based on internet chatter tonight, the prevailing theories are that perhaps we're talking...

Israel (Mossad)?
UK (MI-6)?

Or?

Lots of questions about how his data was compromised.

Also, what kind of phone does Bezos use? Amazon's Fire phone exists, but... as Dan Nguyen points out in a tweet embedded below, he tweets from an iPhone. What kind of security would his phone software have offered or lacked?

Dear Mr Bezos,
I'm just gonna leave this here... pic.twitter.com/ggQfsWeiM0

— ryan huber (@ryanhuber) February 8, 2019

The Bezos investigation’s suspicion centers on a *foreign* government’s intelligence agency, possibly Israel’s Mossad or the UK’s MI-6, according to @RoigFranzia as I understood his comments. https://t.co/o8fIC0agF3

— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) February 8, 2019

New: Washington Post reporter just said that Bezos’ investigator suspects that “a government agency” intercepted Bezos’ text messages.

— julie k. brown (@jkbjournalist) February 8, 2019

Washington Posts @RoigFranzia says Bezos' team thinks it's possible that the text leaks were politically motivated and that a "government entity" accessed the Bezos texts and hoo boy that's certainly something pic.twitter.com/MQuzNFbCed

— Andrew Lawrence (@ndrew_lawrence) February 8, 2019

If you’re trying to understand why Jeff Bezos just accused the National Enquirer of blackmail, this from me, @mffisher & @Sarahlellison will help https://t.co/mr7NCWpwdb

— Manuel Roig-Franzia (@RoigFranzia) February 8, 2019

As @RoigFranzia carefully notes in his interview, Bezos team suspects a “government entity” might have gotten the texts. Not necessarily US government.

— Greg Miller (@gregpmiller) February 8, 2019

Per a reporter at Bezos’ paper, Bezos investigators probing how the Enquirer got his texts thinks “a government agency” may have been involved. https://t.co/6E8VlovDxw

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) February 8, 2019

He seems to tweet from an iPhone pic.twitter.com/VgreCGm8Ja

— Dan Nguyen (@dancow) February 8, 2019

It's just that I went on a journey trying to think through what happened here pic.twitter.com/UxQHg64W9g

— sarah jeong (@sarahjeong) February 8, 2019

Is AMI/National Enquirer still in compliance with its plea agreement? Seems as though the US Attorney for the Southern District of NY would have at least wanted to forbid blackmail and extortion going forward. https://t.co/ZCd9z6SWx5

— James Gleick (@JamesGleick) February 8, 2019

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