CBS News Hacks U.S. Congressman's Phone Confirming Previous Site Claims

Congressman Ted Lieu
 

In the May 7, 2010 Judiciary Report article "The FBI And Mobile Phone Spying" and the April 28, 2011 article "Rupert Murdoch Compromised National Security With Illegal Phone Hacking And Wiretapping" the site stated:

"The U.S. Congress has failed to stop this criminal misconduct, which some of them have benefited from and illegally so. However, whether they realize it or not, the aforementioned misuse of technology, poses a severe danger to national security. If a non-government worker or foreign entity, secretly uses the aforementioned tactics on members of Congress, they could listen into high ranking, classified, closed session meetings, simply by targeting a senator's mobile phone, with inexpensive malware and spyware. 

If they target the mobile phones belonging to the family members of Congress people, they could also spy on the entire family in their home, by default and eventually hear and see things they are not entitled to under the law, which could also damage national security. After all, many people take their work home."

 
Congressman Ted Lieu on his mobile phone
 

Years after the Judiciary Report's aforementioned 2010 and 2011 articles, in April 2016 the CBS News program "60 Minutes" hacked the mobile phone of Congressman Ted Lieu of California, with his consent, to show him it could be done. They were able to secretly listen into his calls, conversations and track him everywhere he went. Lieu, who has a degree in computer science was astonished. 

Lieu stated of the hacking and GPS stalking via his mobile phone, "It was really creepy that they knew where I was even though the GPS was turned off. I always sort of thought that whatever I say on my phone or type in my computer … other people will potentially see it. Now it’s very real to me. This flaw affects everybody. It affects daily life. There are just thousands of ways this flaw affects commerce … and national security. I’m sure the Donald Trump campaign would love to know what the Ted Cruz campaign manager is saying on his cellphone." 

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Congressman Calls for Cellphone Hacking Investigation After CBS Program

Tuesday, April 19, 2016 at 5:41 pm  - WASHINGTON (Los Angeles Times/TNS) - U.S. Rep. Ted Lieu (D-California) is asking for a congressional investigation after an episode of a CBS program in which his phone was hacked to show how easy it is. In a segment that aired Sunday night, the news program purchased an iPhone in New York and sent it to Lieu in California. Lieu, who has a computer science degree from Stanford, agreed to use the phone as his personal device for a week. 

CBS then gave the phone’s number to a German company that looks for security flaws in technology, and two German hackers were able to easily listen to Lieu’s phone calls. Lieu said that when he showed up to tape the segment in Washington, the hackers had told producers which hotel he’d stayed at the night before.“It was really creepy that they knew where I was even though the GPS was turned off,” he said by phone Monday. 

The segment also shows different hackers demonstrating a technique that allowed them to access reporter Sharyn Alfonsi’s emails, ride-sharing account and credit card information when she got onto a fake wireless internet network made to look like it belonged to the hotel where she was staying. 

Lieu said he’s always tried to be careful what he writes and says, but the experience has him thinking about how many elected officials are using phones that might have been hacked. He also has been using encrypted messaging systems. “I always sort of thought that whatever I say on my phone or type in my computer … other people will potentially see it,” he said. “Now it’s very real to me.”...

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The Spill At Dan River In North Carolina Included Cancerous Toxins Such As Arsenic In Drinking And Fishing Water (Video)

Profits Ahead Of People

CBS News program “60 Minutes” aired a segment on Duke Energy and the company’s poor coal ash removal practices currently contaminating drinking and fishing waters in select U.S. states. The most damage has been done in north Carolina, where toxic items such as arsenic have been discovered in drinking and fishing water adjacent to Duke’s plants and their coal ash ponds. The ponds were never lined which has resulted in the coal ash contaminating soil and nearby drinking water.

Lynn Wood of Duke Energy being interviewed by Lesley Stahl of investigative news show "60 Minutes"

It is important that drinking and fishing water be kept to the highest standards of purity, as contamination with coal ash and by products such as arsenic, is cancerous. This is a prime example of corporation putting profits ahead of people. Initial government fines Duke Energy was assessed were paltry, totaling approximately $100,000. The most recent fines are approximately $100,000,000. However, it is not enough money to clean up the environmental damage that has been done.

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The Spill at Dan River 

2015 Jun 14 - Lesley Stahl reports on how Duke Energy is handling over 100 million tons of coal ash waste in North Carolina. The following is a script from "The Spill at Dan River" which aired on Dec. 7, 2014, and was rebroadcast on June 14, 2015. Lesley Stahl is the correspondent. Shachar Bar-On, producer.

Every year coal-burning power plants generate not only electricity but a staggering amount of leftover coal ash that contains heavy metals unhealthy to humans. Yet due in part to intense industry lobbying, oversight over disposal has been largely left in the hands of state officials and employees, who are often beholden to the powerful, local utility companies.

For decades coal ash was just dumped into giant pits dug by rivers and lakes, where toxins could leach into nearby water and soil. There are over 1,000 ash pits or ponds dotting the nation, many of them old, poorly monitored, all but forgotten. But as we first reported back in December, every few years we are reminded that this can lead to disaster like the coal-ash spill in February last year into North Carolina's Dan River at a power plant owned by Duke Energy, the biggest utility company in the country.

The spill at Dan River happened when a drainage pipe that ran underneath an ash basin and dam, collapsed, sucking out six decades of waste and spewing gunk directly into the river. Lynn Good: It was an accident. It didn't work the way it should have worked. It didn't meet our standards or our expectations. Duke Energy CEO Lynn Good, then only seven months on the job, had a crisis on her hands...

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Corporate Tax Dodgers Rankling The U.S. Government

The CBS News program "60 Minutes" aired a segment yesterday, exposing American companies that have relocated their headquarters, sometimes only on paper, to European nations, to avoid paying the 35% income tax rate in the United States. Many of their CEOs and upper level management still live in the States.

Google, Facebook, Pfizer, GE, Cisco are among the American corporations that have relocated to countries such as Ireland and Switzerland, to avoid full domestic taxes, while maintaining offices of various sizes in the United States. It is estimated, America has lost 100,000 jobs and $1 trillion dollars, due to this practice.

The United States GDP is currently $14.5 trillion dollars. Regrettably, so is the national debt, thanks to the latest hike in the debt ceiling, which created an S&P downgrade of America. The U.S. government does collect trillions in taxes, but as stated numerous times on the Judiciary Report, some of the funds are going to fruitless, wasteful programs and initiatives.

Many countries would love to have a GDP as high as $14.5 trillion, yet the government, for reasons known to them, can't make it work, as written about in the article "Is $14.5 Trillion Not Enough Money." How can they not make that work, when that's so much money coming in (regarding their cut of corporate revenues).

The Judiciary Report finds it very alarming that the government can't make a success on their end out of such a successful GDP. Something is wrong there (government management). Serious questions need to be asked, because with all the money coming into the national treasury, America should never have reached the point of landing in an unprecedented financial crisis (2008 to the present) that has rivaled and surpassed the Great Depression in some respects. The system is broken and needs to be fixed.

Obama Refuses To Own Up To Election Failures

Barack Obama

The CBS News program "60 Minutes" aired an episode featuring, U.S. President, Barack Obama, who refused to own up to the mid-term election losses his political party faced this past week. Try as the host may, Obama refused to accept responsibility for the historic losses his fellow Democrats sustained, representing political regression that set them back 68-years in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Does this level of denial, similar to that of Vice President, Joe Biden, who prior to the election, believed there would be no electoral losses and former, House Speaker, Nancy Pelosi, proclaiming a few hours before polls closed that the Democrats would retain the House of Representatives, symbolize a larger political and social disconnect from the rest of the country.

For months, the national polls were spot on correct and accurate, yet top ranking Democrats, including the President, ignored them and more alarmingly, continue to do so, even after the election has been decided. They are experiencing a form of denial and political paralysis.

How can they go forward if their minds are still in the past. They have to wake from the stupor they are in and go forward. It is time for a change. Sadly, the Obama Administration has made "change" a bad word. People don't even want to use it any more. It is no longer the word du jour.

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Transcript: President Barack Obama, Part 1