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the world to target exactly who you think they would target with a tool like that. this thing is marketed supposedly as a law enforcement tool, anti-terrorism tool. but government officials have used it around the world against their personal enemies, their ex-wives, their political rivals. and of course they have used it against opposition figures and journalists and human rights advocates and civil rights activists and advocates for minority groups. whoever it is that's that country's thorn in the side, whoever it is that is that country's insistent moral beacon, whoever is making change and leading movements, whoever is angering repressive government officials, that's who's been targeted with this technology. there's a book that's coming out tomorrow, which means technically at midnight tonight and it's called "pegasus" written by two journalists. they expose the existence of
not only exists, not like a concert card, it's only something that has been deployed. it is just been developed in a lab. it actually has been used already by repressive governments around the world to target exactly who you think they would target with a tool like that. this thing is marketed supposedly as a law enforcement tool, anti-terrorism tool. but government officials have used it around the world against their personal enemies, their ex lives, their political rivals. of course, they've used against opposition figures and journalists, human rights activists, civil rights activists, advocates for minority groups. whoever it is that is that countries thrown inside, whoever it is that is that countries insisted more begin. whoever is making change and leading movements, whoever is the book is called pegasus, it is written by two journalists. lebron and's dream. they expose the existence of this technology and it's used by reproductive governments around the world. the big break in them came when they got a list of 50,000 phones, have been selected for targeting. with this finishes software. i call texas. with that list of 50,000 numbers in hand, these journalists launched an international reporting project to discover what the software was, where came from, and who is being used against. as i said, the book, which is called pegasus, comes out at midnight tonight. i wrote the introduction to the book. here's a little piece of it from the audio book. >> the insidious power of -- it was completely invisible to the victim. you had no way to know if the bodies were reading your texts and emails and listening into your calls and even your
your phone and see everything that you do on your phone and have done on your phone. that technology exists. imagine how dangerous a tool that would be against civil rights activists. imagine how dangerous a tool that would have been against the martin luther king era civil rights movement. and in fact this technology, it not only exists, it's not like a concept car. it's not like something that hasn't been deployed, it's just been developed in a lab, it actually has been used already by repressive governments around the world to target exactly who you think they would target with a tool like that. this thing is marketed supposedly as a law enforcement tool, anti-terrorism tool. but government officials have used it around the world against their personal enemies, their ex-wives, their political rivals. and of course they have used it against opposition figures and journalists and human rights advocates and civil rights activists and advocates for minority groups.
with that. joining us is the fbi whistleblower. what is the potential for abuse by the fbi. >> thanks for having me back on. babble-x is a social media exploitation tool. it's used crawl across multiple platforms on social media. when used properly it's a proper law enforcement tool using key word and specific geographic areas. but if it's expanded it has questionable constitutional issues that couple. specifically your first amendment rights to free speech and whether the government should be monitoring it. dan: if they are trolling our social media for misinformation, it's discretionary what they
with that. joining us is the fbi whistleblower. what is the potential for abuse by the fbi. >> thanks for having me back on. babble-x is a social media exploitation tool. it's used crawl across multiple platforms on social media. when used properly it's a proper law enforcement tool using key word and specific geographic areas. but if it's expanded it has questionable constitutional issues that couple. specifically your first amendment rights to free speech and whether the government should be monitoring it. dan: if they are trolling our social media for misinformation, it's discretionary what they
of some judges there in texas for emboldening criminals. harris county texas constable mark herman joins us now from the houston area. constable, good morning to you. >> will hi, good morning. >> steve: this is a big step, why did you decide this is important that your deputies are armed with ar-15s? >> it's a safety issue. not only for our community but for our deputies to know the law enforcement tool that we felt we needed to roll out and, again, as you mentioned, it's because of a lot of the failed policies that here in harris county, i mean, just in three years, harris county has went to almost the top murder rate in the united states because of these failed policies. and we know it is basically these policies have emboldened these criminals to where they're, you know, i think there was like 150 citizens that were
conspiring with mother teresa or something like that. it looks much more serious. i think these subpoenas start to get at the bottom of that. it's a great law enforcement tool to use, and particularly so when steve bannon has now been indicted by the justice department for contempt of congress. so the alex joneses of the world and roger stones of the world have to know they're going to face a criminal charge just as steve bannon is. >> yes. that's such an important point you raise and goes to who you're dealing with here. the doj has now proven that it will indict on defiance. that changes the dynamic from the previous four years when stonewalling was automatic for so many of these individuals. i'll leave moral andeth cam judgments to others. the legal judgment is that these men are both liars. i say that because jones was found through the civil courts to be a liar, to commit defamation, and more seriously,
kids who did the best were the ones who had parental involvement in their education. does that make sense to you? >> yes, i think parental involvement is very important in education. >> thank you. with that in mind having parents involved in their children's education i have to say i find it deeply disturbing that the national school board association convinced the biden administration to sic you and your justice department, the f.b.i., the full power of the federal law enforcement in this country on involved parents. as if they were domestic terrorists. one of the tools in your arsenal of weapons is the patriot act that i just mentioned. not many current members of this committee were here when we passed the patriot act but i was. and mr. chairman, you were, too. and i remember clearly that we were both concerned about potential abuse of this new law
last straw, the catalyst for a great awaken just getting started. pilots at southwest airlines, chicago police union, parents at school board meetings. americans are pushing back because they value freedom. when the attorney general of the united states sets up a snitch line for parents they'll stand up for the accelerated march to communism we see. america will fight the good fight and finish the course and keep the faith because americans value freedom. >> one of the tools in your arsenal of weapons, of course, is the patriot act that i just mentioned. not many current members of this committee were here when we passed the patriot act. but i was. and mr. chairman, you were, too. i remember clearly that we were both concerned about potential abuse of this new law enforcement tool. i can tell you, not in a million years did we dream that one day we would see the
we figured out hey, wait, we're being followed around by technology in our pockets, by commercial services we use. in this way, people are developing some hives about it. it began for me with realizing that all of the sort of privacy policies we signed up for back in the day don't apply in the future. for instance, ged match. this was an innocent genealogy site you go to find long lost relatives. they had become a big law enforcement tool. they were used by law enforcement to find the golden state killer, joseph james deangelo and capture him. this year, it was purchased by a company that's a forensic genetics company. any of you that had been doing this sort of gee eeology stuff and thought i am playing around with it for fun, suddenly you're part of a law enforcement database. that was a big totem.