on her former coworkers in the intelligence community to four iranian nationals who actually targeted those individuals through their computer accounts and they did it by using imposter social media accounts and working to deploy malware that would provide access to the computers and networks of these members of the u.s. intelligence community. kate, monica witt at this point is in iran and defected there in 2013 and they do have a warrant out for her arrest and they re trying to get her back to the u.s. to face charges. some pretty stunning charges, and there s been reaction from the iranian government? hi, kate. so far what we ve been doing is we ve been scanning iranian
pro-putin russian government operation. i ll quote this. peter severa s spam system ran a sophisticated evolving family of computer viruses, called kelihos and walladac, the kelihos virus had been made to send spam, but during the election it was made to send e-mails to computer accounts. and those e-mails saying that the business man who ran across vladimir putin had come out as gay. so this guy was one of the most famous criminal spam king pins in the world. these viruses and botnet operations that he built for his spam entire apparently had made
major blackberry service outage. we re finding out more about what went wrong. good morning to you. it is thursday, october 13th. this is your am wake-up call. the treasury department has slapped new sanctions against iran s force. the government describes a money trail starting within that iranian organization. but former homeland security secretary tom ridge says think bigger. it s a monstrous ly buffet. they are working unilaterally independent of the ayatollah himself. clearly that, is a force under the control of the hierarchy of the mullahs within iran. so i just can t imagine that anybody s been authorized to operate independently of that leadership. senator joe leberman tells cnn a military response should be considering saying this behavior by iran cannot go unresponded to. the president as kmapder in chief, our allies and the you saudis including the target here have a lot of options that are both owe ververt and covert. in my opinion, there has to be a respon
they are lawyers in part. that is a separate issue apart from discovery. right. it will. the question is, is this the thing that brings this to the united states? it s always the piece that s been missing. the 9/11 families are the two pieces that make it a u.s. issue. pr wise, it s more difficult that you are in england, you are in the united states, you are hacking into people s phone accounts and their computer accounts. it s not only the news arm, the advertising arm. it all adds up. the people are going to come forward. if there s one phone call. yeah. it is a, just like water gate. after that, the issue of watergate became more important than going after nixon. they are going after the whole company and murdock.
extravagant. this is millions of dollars. to say you didn t know your company paid $29.5 million for a similar violation. in the united states, right. it s only a matter of time until there s paper evidence or e-mail evidence of him being informed of this. they are lawyers in part. that is a separate issue apart from discovery. right. it will. the question is, is this the thing that brings this to the united states? it s always the piece that s been missing. the 9/11 families are the two pieces that make it a u.s. issue. pr wise, it s more difficult that you are in england, you are in the united states, you are hacking into people s phone accounts and their computer accounts. it s not only the news arm, the advertising arm. it all adds up.