Political prognosticators and pundits debated on Saturday the political implications of a bombshell report that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia had access to the cell phone of Amazon founder and Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos.
Famous private investigator Gavin de Becker, who had been retained by Bezos to investigate how the National Enquirer published salacious details of an extramarital affair, laid out the allegations in a column published by The Daily Beast.
“Our investigators and several experts concluded with high confidence that the Saudis had access to Bezos’ phone, and gained private information,” De Becker explained. “We did not reach our conclusions lightly.”
The internet, unsurprisingly, wondered what would happen next. Here is some of the analysis:
So what happens if and when the FBI confirms this and DOJ wants to indict a bunch of Saudi officials? Lot of diffic… https://t.co/xx3DTcz0xp— Matthew Miller (@Matthew Miller) 1553984668.0
This could be a whole new level of trouble that needs to be exposed by bright sunlight. Possibly @JeffBezos most im… https://t.co/Pau9TQ6J6q— Rich Siegel, Pulsati.com (@Rich Siegel, Pulsati.com) 1553983971.0
The Bezos camp is doubling – no, tripling – down on the Saudi angle: https://t.co/oDDgqnkNrU— Brian Stelter (@Brian Stelter) 1553982712.0
Golly! Why on earth would the Saudis want to hack Bezos? I mean, it's not like they're colluding with a dude who ha… https://t.co/1z4c95xIbv— John Battelle (@John Battelle) 1553984434.0
Jeff Bezos’ private investigator says they’ve determined with high confidence that Saudi Arabia got access to Bezos… https://t.co/SCfECigI6v— Josh Lederman (@Josh Lederman) 1553982766.0
Holy Sh*t. “And now they’ve evolved into trying to strong-arm an American citizen whom that country’s leadership wa… https://t.co/H8Fxdt3w9N— Kelly Blodgett (@Kelly Blodgett) 1553983933.0
This account would explain why Bezos raised Saudi Arabia in his Medium post, a key question that hadn’t been answer… https://t.co/iMS38tYBOq— Julie Bykowicz (@Julie Bykowicz) 1553982730.0
Jeff Bezos told his longtime security specialist to “spend whatever is needed” to find out who was involved in the… https://t.co/hEIKSMAEq8— kpoulsen (@kpoulsen) 1553982785.0
Earlier today, Michael Sanchez — brother of Bezos' GF — told Page Six that the Enquirer *approached him* about Bezo… https://t.co/TIcB5oNN1W— Noah Shachtman (@Noah Shachtman) 1553986545.0
However could that have happened? https://t.co/XTN3d6vtL4— John Avlon (@John Avlon) 1553985747.0
Bezos’ investigator notes that the Saudi government has been intent on harming Jeff Bezos since the Washington Post… https://t.co/WNGhwMZyA8— Max Tani (@Max Tani) 1553985141.0
I got some grief from people for this column after AMI so aggressively leaked "the brother did it" angle on the Jef… https://t.co/l834CRGS9m— Will Bunch Sign Up For My Newsletter (@Will Bunch Sign Up For My Newsletter) 1553983816.0
But I thought the #Khashoggi killing was totally an accident and the Saudis have nothing to hide from… https://t.co/6H4ILvAS7D— Juliette Kayyem (@Juliette Kayyem) 1553982212.0
BREAKING! Saudi Arabia ‘had access’ to Jeff Bezos’ phone: Investigator drops bombshell allegation against the Middl… https://t.co/KmIHeekSC0— Raw Story (@Raw Story) 1553983435.0
