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[–] -3 points 6 days ago (5 children)

this is such a weird situation...

this is an excerpt of a book, the Dutch are know to have hacked the Russian, but it's unclear the Russian hacked Kushner's iPhone.

Even if that is true right now we have a single source on the money transfers so while it might be true, there hasn't been corroboration. One book seems to make the statement and a bunch of news is talking about it.

The screenshots are only described not shown.

This all sounds like Kushner, but without real fact this is just finger pointing. Time to use critical thinking skills.

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  • [–] 18 points 6 days ago (2 children)

    Yeah $700mil is just scraping the surface. He was also part of the EA takeover by Saudi worth $55bil, to give just one example.

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  • [–] -4 points 6 days ago (1 child)

    Indeed, which is why this seems somewhat credible from a circumstantial standpoint.

    I'm not saying he didn't do it, I'm just saying in this era of information manipulation, you have to verify everything. Including me.

    I get people want to stop thinking due to decision fatigue, overwhelming news, and more, but do you want to get used and abused?

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  • [–] 4 points 6 days ago (1 child)

    I can't imagine the Netherlands would just give the screenshots to random journalists. That doesn't mean that if congress requested copies they wouldn't get them. That said I also can't imagine that the CIA wouldnt know about such happening, so if congress had anyway to investigate there is no saying you wouldn't get matching information from a leak. Hell I'd be surprised if the CIA didn't have a spy in the Netherlands security team.

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  • [–] -3 points 6 days ago

    The upside for MIVD is essentially zero; the downside is a diplomatic crisis.

    From my point of view that's entirely it. They have used journalists before for a leak, but not in a book and not of a US senior level official (even if he is a dip shit).

    Having said that, would you tell Trump that Kushner's phone got hacked because he has the hygiene of a hooligan?

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