Analyst's note: If these 15 or more "interceptor" devices don't belong to our government intelligence agencies or our law enforcement ..... then who and for what purpose? Come to think of it, these are good questions whatever the source. Also noted this headline, and can only hope it is not related: Islamic State: Find U.S. soldiers’ homes, “show up and slaughter them” this and a disturbing story confirming that Islamic terrorists are operating in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez (Feds in El Paso: Rep. O’Rourke Called to Ban Contact with Judicial Watch).
"The Obama administration steadfastly denies that Islamic terrorists are operating in Juarez, even as facts continue to unfold proving otherwise. Though the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has failed to respond to multiple inquiries from Judicial Watch, both telephonic and in writing, about this information it has issued statements in the media rejecting the story. Is it possible that the administration called upon a trusted ally, a federal lawmaker from the targeted area, to silence the whistle blowers?
After all, the administration has for years covered up, or at the very least downplayed, a serious epidemic of crime along the Mexican border even as heavily armed drug cartels have taken over portions of the region....."
We already know that Illegal Aliens in the US Get Passport & Social Security Numbers in One Day - Legals must Wait.
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Mysterious “interceptor” cellphone towers that can listen in someone’s phone call despite not being part of any phone networks have turned up near the White House and Senate.
A company that specializes in selling secure mobile phones discovered the existence of several of the towers in and around the nation’s capitol.
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“It’s highly unlikely that federal law enforcement would be using mobile interceptors near the Senate,” ESD America CEO Les Goldsmith told the technology website Venture Beat on Thursday.
The towers are also capable of loading spyware onto a mobile device before passing off a victim’s call to a legitimate network.
“My suspicion is that it is a foreign entity,” he told Venture Beat.
The reason Mr. Goldsmith doesn’t suspect U.S. agencies of placing the interceptors is that the federal government already has the capability of tapping directly into the carriers.
The devices, although often called a tower, can actually be as small as a suitcase, the website reported.
Goldsmith told the site he passed along the information he’d uncovered to the Federal Communications Commission.
