CNN's John Sutter says the FBI got closer to using Pegasus than it seemed. He says there was an aggressive campaign by NSO and its owners to Americanize the company. L3 Harris, a defense firm, tried to convince the government to take them off the blacklist, he says. "This is an American national security issue," they say.
A little over a decade ago, a small Israeli company created what would become the world’s most powerful and notorious hacking tool.
Mark Mazzetti, who is a Washington investigative correspondent for The Times, explains the surprising story of the NSO Group and why, despite banning its technology, the United States kept trying to use it.
Guest: Mark Mazzetti, a Washington investigative correspondent for The New York Times.
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