Special Report - Inside the UAE’s secret #hacking team of U.S. mercenaries
▻https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-usa-spying-raven-specialreport-idUKKCN1PO1A6
She had joined Project Raven, a clandestine team that included more than a dozen former U.S. intelligence operatives recruited to help the United Arab Emirates engage in #surveillance of other governments, #militants and human rights activists critical of the monarchy.
Aux Émirats Arabes Unis, le Project Raven espionne des citoyens américains
▻https://www.la-croix.com/Monde/Moyen-Orient/Au-Emirats-Arabes-Unis-Project-Raven-espionne-citoyens-americains-2019-02-
Complètement d’enquête par les mêmes journalistes :
#Made_in_America
▻https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-raven-whitehouse
Reuters reports this year revealed how a group of former National Security Agency operatives and other elite American intelligence veterans helped the UAE spy on a wide range of targets through the previously undisclosed program — from terrorists to human rights activists, journalists and dissidents.
Now, an examination of the origins of #DREAD, reported here for the first time, shows how a pair of former senior White House leaders, working with ex-NSA spies and Beltway contractors, played pivotal roles in building a program whose actions are now under scrutiny by federal authorities.
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In an interview in Washington, Clarke said that after recommending that the UAE create a cyber surveillance agency, his company, Good Harbor Consulting, was hired to help the country build it. The idea, Clarke said, was to create a unit capable of tracking terrorists. He said the plan was approved by the U.S. State Department and the National Security Agency , and that Good Harbor followed U.S. law.