McConnell claims that he has detected Gore’s signature use of the Apple Clipper chip from the spoliation of evidence at the JABS* crime scene associated with the murder of Neil Heywood; the British consultant whose death has decoyed suspicion away from the root authority behind dissident contract hits and onto Heywood’s client – Bo’s wife.
* Joint Automated Booking Station – Recipient of the Gore Hammer Award in 1996
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“http://m.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/ousted-chinese-leader-played-major-role-in-wiretapping-scandal/article2414390/?service=mobile When Hu Jintao, China’s top leader, picked up the telephone last August to talk to a senior anti-corruption official visiting Chongqing, special devices detected that he was being wiretapped – by local officials in that southwestern metropolis.The discovery of that and other wiretapping led to an official investigation that helped topple Chongqing’s charismatic leader, Bo Xilai, in a political cataclysm that has yet to reach a conclusion.
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Until now, the downfall of Mr. Bo has been cast largely as a tale of a populist who pursued his own agenda too aggressively for some top leaders in Beijing and was brought down by accusations that his wife had arranged the murder of Neil Heywood, a British consultant, after a business dispute. But the hidden wiretapping, previously alluded to only in internal Communist Party accounts of the scandal, appears to have provided another compelling reason for party leaders to turn on Mr. Bo.
The story of how China’s President was monitored also shows the level of mistrust among leaders in the one-party state. To maintain control over society, leaders have embraced enhanced surveillance technology. But some have turned it on one another – repeating patterns of intrigue that go back to the beginnings of Communist rule.
“This society has bred mistrust and violence,” said Roderick MacFarquhar, a historian of Communist China’s elite-level machinations over the past half century. “Leaders know you have to watch your back because you never know who will put a knife in it.”
Nearly a dozen sources with party ties, speaking anonymously for fear of retribution, confirmed the wiretapping, as well as a widespread program of bugging across Chongqing. But the party’s public version of Mr. Bo’s fall omits it.
The official narrative and much foreign attention has focused on the more easily grasped death of Mr. Heywood in November. When Mr. Bo’s police chief, Wang Lijun, was stripped of his job and feared being implicated in Bo family affairs, he fled to the U.S. consulate in Chengdu, where he spoke largely about Mr. Heywood’s death.
The murder account is pivotal to the scandal, providing Mr. Bo’s opponents with an unassailable reason to have him removed. But party insiders say the wiretapping was seen as a direct challenge to central authorities. It revealed to them just how far Mr. Bo was prepared to go in his efforts to grasp greater power in China. That compounded suspicions that Mr. Bo could not be trusted with a top slot in the party, which is due to reshuffle its senior leadership positions this fall.
“Everyone across China is improving their systems for the purposes of maintaining stability,” said one official with a central government media outlet, referring to surveillance tactics. “But not everyone dares to monitor party central leaders.”
According to senior party members, including editors, academics and people with ties to the military, Mr. Bo’s eavesdropping operations began several years ago as part of a state-financed surveillance buildup, ostensibly for the purposes of fighting crime and maintaining local political stability.
The architect was Mr. Wang, a nationally decorated crime-fighter who had worked under Mr. Bo in the northeast province of Liaoning. Together they installed “a comprehensive package bugging system covering telecommunications to the Internet,” according to the government media official.
Together, Mr. Bo and Mr. Wang unleashed a drive to smash crime rings that controlled large portions of Chongqing’s economic life. In interviews, targets of the crackdown marveled at the scale and determination with which local police intercepted their communications.
“On the phone, we dared not mention Bo Xilai or Wang Lijun,” said Li Jun, a fugitive property developer who now lives in hiding abroad. Instead, he and fellow businessmen took to scribbling notes, removing their cellphone batteries and stocking up on unregistered SIM cards to thwart surveillance as the crackdown mounted, he said.
Not only those suspected of being mobsters, but also political figures were targeted. One political analyst with senior-level ties, citing information obtained from a senior military colonel he recently dined with, said Mr. Bo had tried to tap the phones of virtually all high-ranking leaders who visited Chongqing in recent years, “including Zhou Yongkang,” the law-and-order czar who was said to have backed Mr. Bo as his potential successor.
“Bo wanted to be extremely clear about what leaders’ attitudes toward him were,” the analyst said.
Perhaps more worrisome to Mr. Bo and Mr. Wang, however, was the increased scrutiny from the party’s Central Commission of Discipline Inspection, which by the beginning of 2012 had stationed up to four separate teams in Chongqing, two undercover.
Beyond making a routine inspection, it is not clear why the disciplinary official who telephoned Mr. Hu – Ma Wen, the minister of supervision – was in Chongqing. Her high-security land link to Mr. Hu from the state guesthouse in Chongqing was monitored on Mr. Bo’s orders. The topic of the call is unknown but was probably not vital. Most phones are so unsafe that important information is often conveyed only in person or in writing.
But Beijing was galled that Mr. Bo would wiretap Mr. Hu, whether intentionally or not, and turned central security and disciplinary investigators loose on his police chief, who bore the brunt of the scrutiny over the next couple of months.
Internal party accounts suggest that the party views the wiretapping as one of Mr. Bo’s most serious crimes. One preliminary indictment in mid-March accused Mr. Bo of damaging party unity by collecting evidence on other leaders. Party officials, however, say it would be far too damaging to make the wiretapping public. When Mr. Bo is finally charged, wiretapping is not expected to be mentioned.
“The things that can be publicized are the economic problems and the killing,” according to the senior official at the government media outlet. “That’s enough to decide the matter in public.””
“AL GORE BUGS AMERICA? Published: 08/02/2000 at 1:00 AM by CHARLES SMITH Email | Archive Charles R. Smith is a noted investigative journalist.
In 1993, Vice President Gore and Attorney General Janet Reno were ordered to form an IWG or “interagency working group” in a secret White House memo. The sign off sheet on the secret memo specifically sought Gore and Reno’s signature.
Included in the working group were White House Counsel Vince Foster and convicted Whitewater figure Webster Hubbell. Gore quickly went to work with the secret group of Clinton advisers and delivered a report to the president.
“Simply stated, the nexus of the long term problem is how can the government sustain its technical ability to accomplish electronic surveillance in a advanced telecommunications environment characterized by great technical diversity and many competing service providers (numbering over 1500, some potentially antagonistic) who have great economic and political leverage,” states the top secret report prepared by Gore’s Interagency Working Group.
“The solution to the access problem for future telecommunications requires that the vendor/manufacturing community translate the government’s requirements into a fundamental system design criteria,” noted the Gore report.
“The basic issue for resolution is a choice between accomplishing this objective by mandatory (i.e., statutory/regulatory) or voluntary means.”
This chilling conclusion, that there is no choice but to be monitored by Big Brother is backed by several other documents. One such document released by the Justice Department is a March 1993 Justice memo from Stephen Colgate, assistant attorney general for administration. According to the Colgate memo, Vice President Al Gore was to chair a meeting with Hubbell, Reno, Commerce Secretary Ron Brown, and Leon Panetta in March 1993. The topic of the meeting was the “AT&T Telephone Security Device.”
According to Colgate, AT&T had developed secure telephones the U.S. government could not tap. The Clinton administration secretly contracted with AT&T to keep the phones off the market. Colgate’s memo noted that the administration was determined to prevent the American public from having a private phone conversation.
“AT&T has developed a Data Encryption Standard (DES) product for use on telephones to provide security for sensitive conversations,” wrote Colgate. “The FBI, NSA and NSC want to purchase the first production run of these devices to prevent their proliferation. They are difficult to decipher and are a deterrent to wiretaps.”
Buried in the Colgate memo is the first reference to government developed monitoring devices that would be required for all Americans.
According to the March 1993 Colgate memo to Hubbell, “FBI, NSA and NSC want to push legislation which would require all government agencies and eventually everyone in the U.S. to use a new public-key based cryptography method.”
In 1993, the “public-key” system referenced by Colgate had already been developed by the Federal government. The system, a special computer chip called “Clipper,” provided the Federal government with an “exploitable feature” allowing a wiretap of any secure phone communications.
However, the only way to force “everyone in the U.S. to use” the new Clipper chip was to enact “legislation” which would require that it be manufactured into all phones, fax machines and computers.”
“[Spoliation inference that Apple director Gore is selling to spy] Former Vice President Al Gore Joins Apple’s Board of Directors CUPERTINO, California—March 19, 2003—Apple® today announced that Albert Gore Jr., the former Vice President of the United States, has joined the Company’s Board of Directors. Mr. Gore was elected at Apple’s board meeting today. “Al brings an incredible wealth of knowledge and wisdom to Apple from having helped run the largest organization in the world—the United States government—as a Congressman, Senator and our 45th Vice President. Al is also an avid Mac user and does his own video editing in Final Cut Pro,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “Al is going to be a terrific Director and we’re excited and honored that he has chosen Apple as his first private sector board to serve on.” …. “Apple sold 35.1 million iPhones in the quarter, beating most analysts’ expectations (the company derives roughly half its revenue from iPhone sales). It also sold 11.8 million iPads during the quarter, a 151-per-cent increase over the same quarter a year earlier. Strong sales in the Asia-Pacific region were largely responsible for Apple’s record quarter. CEO Tim Cook noted the company has begun selling the newest version of the iPhone in mainland China, and is finally starting to penetrate that massive market. “It was an incredible quarter in China,” he said. “It is mind-boggling that we could do this well.” Sales of Apple’s iPhone were up five-fold from the same period a year ago in the country. Mr. Cook also pointed out that Mac sales growth in China was up 60 per cent year over year – worldwide, Mac sales are up just 7 per cent.”
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