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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPeople are scared: Paranoia seizes Trumps White House
People are scared: Paranoia seizes Trumps White House
Staffers are leaving their phones at home, using secret apps and monitoring each others social media.
By Alex Isenstadt and Kenneth P. Vogel
03/15/17 05:13 AM EDT
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Some rank-and-file White House aides, meanwhile, have become convinced that intelligence agents may be monitoring their phone calls, emails, and text messages. Those fears intensified last week when WikiLeaks released a trove of CIA documents outlining how the agency can break into phones and computers.
In an interview, one White House aide described the elaborate steps he was taking to shield himself. Once he gets home in the evening, he turns off his work phone and stores it in a drawer because, he said, he believes it could be used to listen to him even when its off. If he makes a call during off-hours, he uses a separate, personal phone in an adjoining room, where the stowed work device wouldnt be able to pick up his voice as clearly.
The fact that so much sensitive information from the White House was making its way to news outlets, he said, had raised suspicions that national security officials were listening in.
Im paranoid, said the aide. Anything significant seems to be on the front page the next day.
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I wouldn't call it paranoia under the circumstances, said a Republican who communicates with many administration aides through encrypted apps. Its not paranoia if people really are out to get you, and everybody actually is out to get everyone else.
Link: http://www.politico.com/story/2017/03/trump-white-house-paranoia-236069
Staffers are leaving their phones at home, using secret apps and monitoring each others social media.
By Alex Isenstadt and Kenneth P. Vogel
03/15/17 05:13 AM EDT
...snip
Some rank-and-file White House aides, meanwhile, have become convinced that intelligence agents may be monitoring their phone calls, emails, and text messages. Those fears intensified last week when WikiLeaks released a trove of CIA documents outlining how the agency can break into phones and computers.
In an interview, one White House aide described the elaborate steps he was taking to shield himself. Once he gets home in the evening, he turns off his work phone and stores it in a drawer because, he said, he believes it could be used to listen to him even when its off. If he makes a call during off-hours, he uses a separate, personal phone in an adjoining room, where the stowed work device wouldnt be able to pick up his voice as clearly.
The fact that so much sensitive information from the White House was making its way to news outlets, he said, had raised suspicions that national security officials were listening in.
Im paranoid, said the aide. Anything significant seems to be on the front page the next day.
snip
I wouldn't call it paranoia under the circumstances, said a Republican who communicates with many administration aides through encrypted apps. Its not paranoia if people really are out to get you, and everybody actually is out to get everyone else.
Link: http://www.politico.com/story/2017/03/trump-white-house-paranoia-236069
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People are scared: Paranoia seizes Trumps White House (Original Post)
MelissaB
Mar 2017
OP
Sounds like everything is running great - If you''re goal is the be Kremlin-west. n/t
CincyDem
Mar 2017
#1
If you've got nothing to hide, why are you worried about the government spying on you?
KeepItReal
Mar 2017
#6
CincyDem
(6,407 posts)1. Sounds like everything is running great - If you''re goal is the be Kremlin-west. n/t
bathroommonkey76
(3,827 posts)2. 'Paranoia' has been running rampant in Cheeto in Chief's admin
since election day. Remember we are approaching his 2 month anniversary-- even though it seems like 2 years.
leftyladyfrommo
(18,874 posts)3. Next people will start getting poisoned . nt
Stinky The Clown
(67,832 posts)4. "Like a well oiled machine"
Demsrule86
(68,715 posts)5. So what are you saying that would cause you so much trouble?
KeepItReal
(7,769 posts)6. If you've got nothing to hide, why are you worried about the government spying on you?
I distinctly remember Republicans saying that to us common folks when the USA Patriot Act was forced upon us all.