Head of LulzSec reportedly worked with FBI for months, participated in disinformation campaign
Hector Xavier Monsegur aka Sabu
By Madison Ruppert
Editor of End the Lie
Today brought yet another international raid targeting alleged members of the hacker group Lulz Security, better known as LulzSec along with reports that Hector Xavier Monsegur or “Sabu” was working with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) for months.
During the peak of their activities I pointed out that their activities were in no way forwarding the cause of internet freedom, in fact they were giving ammunition to those in Washington who would like to see the internet be under total government control.
An article in the Guardian (which I addressed here) quoted one of my articles on the subject, essentially claiming that I had been tricked by the group into thinking they were working with the government.
As it turns out, I was, to a certain extent, correct the entire time. While it is now clear that all of LulzSec was not a government operation, I was correct in postulating that the leadership could be working directly with the government.
At the time, there was also concerns that the LulzSec member “Nakomis” was working with the government, although it is now obvious that they were controlling the group from the very top.
It’s always enjoyable to see when the alternative media and so-called “conspiracy theorists” are vindicated by the mainstream media months after the fact.
The operation targeted five of the top members of LulzSec across the United Kingdom, Ireland and the United States and an FBI official told Fox News, “This is devastating to the organization. We’re chopping off the head of LulzSec.”
LulzSec has claimed responsibility for a wide variety of attacks on targets ranging from Sony, to FBI affiliates, to government entities like the official Senate website and even random everyday people.
Last year, LulzSec assimilated into the amorphous Anonymous and stopped operating under their own banner, although the operations never ceased.
Monsegur reportedly was facing a dozen hacking-related charges, to which he pleaded guilty on August 15, 2011. After this time, it appears that he began working with the FBI in order to receive a reduced sentence.
“They caught him and he was secretly arrested and now works for the FBI,” a source that went unnamed who is allegedly close to Monsegur told Fox News.
So far, those arrested include: Ryan “Kayla” Ackroyd, Jake “Topiary” Davis, Darren “pwnsauce” Martyn, Donncha “palladium” O’Cearrbhail, and Jeremy “Anarchaos” Hammond.
Kayla and Topiary were arrested in London, England, pwnsauce and palladium in Ireland and Anarchaos in Chicago, Illinois.
This comes after another recent international raid targeting Anonymous resulted in arrests of a whopping 25 suspects.
According to Fox News’ coverage, Monsegur was quite a helpful asset for the government. According to anonymous sources who they claim are close to Sabu as well as law enforcement officials, he was disseminating disinformation via Twitter and even protecting the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and other government and financial institutions from being hacked.
The FBI was reportedly able to flip Monsegur on his associates by leveraging his guardianship of two children against him.
“He didn’t go easy,” an anonymous law enforcement official involved in the operation said. “It was because of his kids. He didn’t want to go away to prison and leave them. That’s how we got him.”
“He really cares about these kids,” another unnamed source said. “They’re young [and] he is really worried about what will happen.”
After he faced his charges, Monsegur reportedly began working out of FBI offices on an almost daily basis, assisting federal agents in identifying and arresting other prominent members of LulzSec and Anonymous.
Eventually he was allowed to work from home using a laptop provided to him by the FBI while his old computer was given to the FBI along with all of the encryption keys needed to uncover his records and log them as evidence.
Fox News paints Monsegur as this godly figure in the hacking world, likening the leads on vulnerabilities that hackers “he commanded” would send him to “offerings made to a monarch.”
Furthermore, they quote an anonymous law enforcement official as saying, “In half the world he was a god. If he thought what you did was good, you’d rise up in the [hacker] community – once he blessed you, basically.”
Monsegur reportedly spent 8 to 16 hours on the computer every day under the constant watchful eye of an FBI agent who monitored his activities through software loaded on to the government-issued laptop.
When LulzSec hackers would pass information to Monsegur about vulnerabilities they discovered, he would turn around and hand over the information to the FBI who would attempt to warn the targets before they were attacked.
Monsegur and his FBI handlers were also behind a large disinformation campaign which even included getting in touch with reporters who believed they were interviewing a notorious hacker.
Sometimes the journalists would be speaking directly to FBI agents the entire time, other times it would be Monsegur himself with his handlers by his side making sure he said what they wanted him to.
“About 90 percent of what you see online is bulls—,” one of Monsegur’s FBI handlers told Fox News, referring to their quite massive disinformation campaign.
An FBI supervisory official told Fox that Monsegur’s activites helped the FBI alert some 300 government, financial and corporate entities around the world to the potential points of vulnerability in their systems, all without blowing his cover this entire time.
Monsegur also acted as a fact-checker for the FBI, verifying claims of breaches and information theft from members of LulzSec or Anonymous.
Sabu was even responsible for calling off a DDoS attack on the CIA’s public website at the request of the FBI.
“We told Sabut to tell them to stop,” an anonymous official stated. “’It’s embarrassing for the CIA,’ we told Sabu, ‘Make them stop, now.’”
Like any good minion, Monsegur followed orders and said, “You’re knocking over a bee’s nest,” to his hacker pals.
When he told them to stop, that is exactly what they did. I’m not sure why the attack was so embarrassing for the CIA given that it was not actually a hack, just a disruption of their public website’s availability.
“When people in the hacking community realize their God has actually been [in] cooperation with the government, it’ll be sheer terror,” one senior official said.
“You might be a messiah in the hacking community but you’re still a rat,” another anonymous source said.
It will be interesting to see how Anonymous reacts to this revelation, although it has been said in the past that around a quarter of all hackers already work with government entities in one way or another.
The activities of LulzSec made it very clear to me that they would be targeted for infiltration, if they weren’t already compromised.
It is now obvious that my hunch was correct and they were a tool of the FBI for even longer than I had thought.
Did I miss anything? Would you like to share your opinion, tip me off to an important story, or share some of your own writing? Email me at Admin@EndtheLie.com
Related posts:
- The LulzSec controversy continues: damage control, disinformation, and doubt
- Confirmed: FBI charge LulzSec, Anonymous hackers ‘betrayed by insider’
- LulzSec, group behind massive Sony hacking, hits FBI affiliate InfraGard
- Anonymous to prevail sans Sabu: ‘He’s a traitor; LulzSec long-dead; we have no leaders’
- Anonymous continues the work of LulzSec, proving they actually didn’t disband
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John McCain: Founding Father of the Terrorist Emirate of Benghazi [videos included]
Benghazi declares autonomy, raises Al-Qaeda flag. McCain seeks to spread terrorist empire to Syria.
by Tony Cartalucci
March 7, 2012 – “I have met with these brave fighters, and they are not Al-Qaeda. To the contrary: They are Libyan patriots who want to liberate their nation. We should help them do it.” – Senator John McCain in Benghazi, Libya April 22, 2011.
Image: And yet, the very courthouse McCain uttered his lies in front of is now flying the flag of Al Qaeda, while crowds have been photographed in the streets of Benghazi carrying it aloft since the fall of Qaddafi. Clearly, the senator from Arizona was “mistaken.” (click images to enlarge)
Even as McCain deceived the world with his comments in pursuit of overthrowing and destroying the sovereign nation-state of Libya, it was already a matter of record, according to America’s own West Point Combating Terrorism Center, that Benghazi, and much of eastern Libya known as Cyrenaica, served as an epicenter for global Al Qaeda recruitment. Militants hailing from the eastern region’s Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG) would end up in both Afghanistan and Iraq fighting Western troops and participating in sectarian violence.
This included LIFG leader Abdul Hakim Belhaj aka Abdul Hakim Hasadi, who first fought alongside the CIA against the Soviets in Afghanistan, then against US and British troops before eventually being captured by the US and handed over to Qaddafi who imprisoned him for 7 years. Upon his release, he would promptly be sponsored by NATO and the likes of John McCain, given arms, money, and training just as he was by the CIA during the Soviet Afghan-invasion, with the addition of NATO close air support in his bid to overthrow the Libyan government.
Video: McCain can’t plead ignorance – international news has covered Al Qaeda’s involvement in Libya, and now in Syria for well over a year.
Belhaj and other militant factions constituting the “Libyan rebels” would go on a genocidal rampage throughout the country, encircling cities like Bani Walid and Sirte, cutting off food, water, electricity, and emergency aid while NATO mercilessly bombed populated city centers for days, weeks, and in the case of Sirte, months.
Belhaj is now the military commander of Tripoli and has been reported to be working with Syrian militants to repeat NATO’s campaign of atrocities, destabilization, and Balkanization in Syria, where he is said to be importing weapons and funds as well as LIFG fighters.
There is no doubt that the men McCain was defending were LIFG fighters, terrorists linked directly with Al Qaeda according to West Point reports (.pdf), and listed to this day by the US State Department and the UK Home Office (.pdf) as a “foreign terrorist organization.” McCain was not only rhetorically supporting listed terrorists, but providing material support including weapons, funds, training, and airsupport in direct violation of USC § 2339A & 2339B, “providing material support or resources to designated foreign terrorist organizations.”
Video: McCain can easily be considered one of the founding fathers of the autonomous Al Qaeda terror-emirate of Benghazi, a distinction that makes a mockery of the 6,000+ US troops that gave their lives for the fraudulent “War on Terror” McCain is so fond of promoting.
In a recent turn of events, it has been reported that the city of Benghazi has declared autonomy from Tripoli, raising the Al Qaeda flag and becoming in effect, a terror-emirate, one whose capital McCain had stood in, praising men who had American blood on their hands and were in the process of (and still are) carrying out racist genocide. Thanks to McCain’s support, the forces of Al Qaeda have achieved in one year what Qaddafi had prevented them from doing for decades. They now have a vast region, rich in oil resources gladly siphoned by Western corporations, to use as a base of terror – one of the very supposed scenarios McCain helped send 6,000+ US troops to their graves in Iraq and Afghanistan to prevent.
But McCain’s treason, national, and international crimes don’t begin or end there. His International Republican Institute (IRI) was mentioned by name in the New York Times as being behind the supposedly “indigenous” “spontaneous” “Arab Spring” unrest in the first place. In an April 2011 article published by the New York Times titled, “U.S. Groups Helped Nurture Arab Uprisings,” it was stated:
“A number of the groups and individuals directly involved in the revolts and reforms sweeping the region, including the April 6 Youth Movement in Egypt, the Bahrain Center for Human Rights and grass-roots activists like Entsar Qadhi, a youth leader in Yemen, received training and financing from groups like the International Republican Institute, the National Democratic Institute and Freedom House, a nonprofit human rights organization based in Washington.”
After helping overthrow the Egyptian government, McCain would lead representatives from Wall Street’s Fortune 500 corporations on a tour of Cairo like conquerors surveying their new dominion. He would also taunt the heads of state of both Russia and China, revealing the final destination of the chaos and destabilization he has been helping along by claiming, “I would be a little less cocky in the Kremlin with my KGB cronies today if I were Vladimir Putin. I would be a little less secure in the seaside resort [of] President Hu and a few men who govern and decide the fate of 1.3 billion people.”
The work of McCain’s IRI more recently manifested itself when it was caught meddling in Russia’s elections late last year and again just this month. The National Endowment for Democracy (NED), a US government funded umbrella organization under which the IRI falls and the IRI itself, were behind several US-backed NGOs, particularly GOLOS, seeking to “expose voting irregularities.” The purpose of this was of course to cast doubts on the validity of the elections and justify street mobs brought out by the Russian opposition groups the IRI had been cultivating in an attempt to trigger an “Arab Spring” in Russia.
Image: Screenshot taken of McCain’s messages regarding unrest he and his IRI have prepared and are now trying to trigger in the streets of Russia. (click to enlarge.)
And just this week, echoing his frothing warmongering over Libya, McCain called for US airstrikes on Syria. Promoting the use of America’s military while being unable to cite any credible or imminent threat to US territorial security would seem like a punishable offense or at least a sign of mental instability and grounds for dismissing the aged Senator. Instead, McCain represents the public face and voice of the corporate-financier agenda of Wall Street and London which has plotted a premeditated blitzkrieg from Tunisia to Thailand, and eventually to the doorsteps of both Moscow and Beijing.
On the eve of possible Western intervention in Syria, and with warmongers like John McCain, fellow IRI chairman Lindsey Graham, and Senator Joseph Lieberman calling for a repeat of Libya, it is essential that Americans look at the Al Qaeda flags waving over Benghazi and recognize McCain’s role helping hoist them aloft.
Thousands of American troops have shed their lives in a war they believed was meant to fight these very men now being handed nation after nation by US senators like McCain, who in fact were the principle proponents of the wars in both Afghanistan and Iraq. We are not witnessing a wave for liberation and democracy sweeping the globe, but rather a sinister deception paved in blood, terror, and betrayal of all kinds crafting a world not for ‘we the people’ to thrive in, but for Wall Street and London to feed on.
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Source URL – http://landdestroyer.blogspot.com/2012/03/john-mccain-founding-father-of.html
Mossad, CIA and Blackwater operate in Syria – report
Russia Today
March 7, 2012
A security operation in Homs reveals Mossad, CIA and Blackwater are involved in the military violence in this part of Syria, as over 700 Arab and Western gunmen and Israeli, American and European-made weapons were detained in Baba Amr district.
Syrian security forces got yet further proof of Western powers’ military involvement in Syria’s internal conflict, reports Al-Manar, a news agency, affiliated with Hezbollah, the Lebanon-based militant group and political party.
Around 700 gunmen were recently arrested in the former rebel stronghold of Babar Amr.
“The captured gunmen held Arab nationalities, including Gulf, Iraqi, and Lebanese. Among them were also Qatari intelligence agents and non-Arab fighters from Afghanistan, Turkey, and some European countries like France,” the agency quotes Syrian expert in strategic affairs Salim Harba as saying.
Harba also confirmed to the agency that “a coordination office was established in Qatar under American-Gulf sponsorship. The office includes American, French, and Gulf – specifically from Qatar and Saudi Arabia – intelligence agents, as well as CIA, Mossad, and Blackwater agents and members of the Syrian Transitional Council.”
The Syrian expert also added the security forces have also seized Israeli-, European- and American-made weapons.
“The Syrian army also uncovered tunnels and equipments there,” he told to the agency, “advanced Israeli, European, and American arms that have not yet been tested in the countries of manufacture, in addition to Israeli grenades, night binoculars, and communication systems were confiscated by the security forces.”
Salim Harba however said the Syrian authorities are not planning to reveal all the obtained information now, but assured all the evidence is of high value.
“The Syrian security forces have documents and confessions that could harm everyone who conspired against Syria, and could make a security and political change, not just on the internal Syrian level, but also on the regional level,” he said.
The recent Stratfor leak and hacked email of the company’s director of analysis also suggest undercover NATO troops are already on the ground in Syria.
There have been previous allegations of a Western presence on the side of the rebels as 13 French officers were reportedly captured by the loyalist forces earlier in March.
President Bashar al-Assad has repeatedly claimed his regime is fighting not with peaceful protesters as claimed by the West, but with the military gangs supported by the West.
Western powers however have categorically denied any military involvement in Syrian internal conflict.
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Source – http://rt.com/news/cia-blackwater-mossad-syria-037/
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Corbett Report Radio 080 – HAARP, Earthquakes and Mind Control with Dr. Nick Begich [audio]
The Corbett Report
March 1, 2012
Tonight James talks to Dr. Nick Begich, the publisher and co-owner of Earthpulse Press and an author and lecturer on new technologies, health and earth science related issues. Best known for his groundbreaking work on HAARP, including his book, Angels Don’t Play This HAARP, we discuss the science behind earthquakes, weather manipulation, mind control, and other advanced technologies.
Works Cited:
Atmosphere Above Japan Heated Rapidly Before M9 Earthquake
Ionospheric electron enhancement preceding the 2011 Tohoku-Oki earthquake
Great Tohoku earthquake probably shook Earth’s upper atmosphere before it shook the Earth
Background of the HAARP Project
Mind Control: The Ultimate Brave New World by Dr. Nick Begich
Syrian Girl – Colour Revolutions Soros or Levi Flavours [video]
YouTube – 108morris108
March 7, 2012
Syrian Girl takes us around the worlds unfolding events, with a near constant backdrop of colored revolutions.
‘ACTA not over, people await Internet revolution’ [video]
Russia Today
March 7, 2012
Senior members of the notorious computer hacker group LulzSec, with ties to the Anonymous movement, have been arrested and charged with cyber-crimes by the FBI. The group is famous for attacking the websites of the CIA, FOX news and credit card companies, among others. The leader of the movement, however, has reportedly worked for the U.S. government following his arrest last year and is believed to have aided the arrest of his former colleagues. Human rights lawyer Katarzyna Szymielewicz says the arrests draw society’s attention back to the controversial anti-counterfeit trade pact.
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Splintered Syria: Fears of sectarian violence [video]
Russia Today
March 7, 2012
Syria has a long history of peaceful coexistence among diverse religious and ethnic communities. But with ongoing violence in the country, more and more people fear this pillar of secularist regimes might end up crumbling.
With a predominantly Sunni Muslim population, Syria is also home to many ethnic and religious minorities – Shia, Druze and Christians included.
President Bashar al-Assad and his family are Alawite – the Shia Islam minority – and Alawites dominate the government, holding key military positions.
For years his regime has protected the interests of the country’s diverse religious population by enforcing its strictly secular program and curbing the influence of radicalism.
But for the past year the country has been embroiled in a political conflict which is now threatening to break this fragile balance.
RT’s Maria Finoshina traveled to one of the last resorts of peace and stability in the country – the village of Maaloula. It is the only place in the world where Aramaic – the language believed to have been spoken by Christ – is still used as a living language.
Away from the battles in this long-running conflict, it has troubled neighbors – the village of Yabroud, the alleged center of weapon smuggling in Syria is just 20 minutes away. The beleaguered city of Homs is less than a hundred kilometers away. The residents therefore are afraid the violence can now reach their place and ruin their peaceful life.
“We are afraid that these people [[anti-government protesters – RT]] will come here to try to disturb us and destroy our peaceful life, as they did in Homs and many cities, but we trust army and security and state,” one of the residents told the RT crew.
For years the regime kept all the religious groups in unity with President al-Assad, more than just the head of state, but kind of a symbol of this harmony.
“Our country before the crisis was developing now – we are all losing. Jesus said any kingdom that split will die fast. These people are receiving money, and listening to the orders. They want to ruin this country. What else [do] you think?” Pelagia Sayaf from St. Thekla Monastery explained to RT.
As sectarian violence over Syria between Sunnis and Alawites has already been seen in neighboring Lebanon, Syrian minorities now scared it will bleed over across the border.
And with increasing calls for foreign intervention and the arming of the opposition people fear a no-win fight would be tragic.
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source: http://rt.com/news/syria-sectarian-violence-fear-021/
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