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Amazon Part 6: The Billionaire and the Tabloid

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Jeff Bazos and the National Inquirer

I don't think we will ever know for sure if basel phone was really hacked, and if he thought the soudies had tipped off the inquirer. But i think ultimately, bazos and his handlers were happy to muddy the waters. Letting the confusion and ambiguity about a possible global conspiracy swirl around made bazos look good. It allowed him to keep alive the possibility that his brave support of his newspaper, the wash an posts, was the source of his personal troubles. Around a year after the inquire story published, he spoke it a memorial for jamal kashoji. No one should ever have to endure what you did. It is unimaginable. And you need

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