How The Guardian lied blatantly that Modi govt MAY have spied on RaGa

On Sunday, Forbidden Stories, a consortium of 16 media homes from internationally, in collaboration with left propaganda web site from India, The Wire, launched an alleged “bombshell” the place they claimed that they’d accessed an inventory of fifty,000 names that had been probably being illegally surveilled by numerous “authoritarian regimes”, together with India. The names that surfaced on Sunday included an inventory of 40 journalists (not all names had been revealed) and the Left instantly jumped to assert that the Modi authorities was cracking down on dissidents.
However, these claims had been simply that – conjectures and lies that had been peddled not solely by The Guardian but in addition by The Wire. The lies and phrase chicanery of their try to focus on the Modi authorities was complete debunked by us right here.
While they don’t have any proof to assert that the Modi authorities snooped on journalists and others, in actual fact, the Modi govt categorically denied utilizing the Pegasus software program in any respect, the cabal has now dumped one other set of names that they are saying had been POTENTIAL targets of snooping.
The Guardian right this moment printed an article the place they claimed that Rahul Gandhi was one other POTENTIAL goal of snooping “by the Modi govt”. To make their level, which isn’t based mostly on information, the featured picture they used contained the picture of Narendra Modi and Rahul Gandhi.

In the article, The Guardian claims:
Two numbers belonging to Gandhi, who led the Congress occasion throughout India’s 2019 nationwide elections, had been chosen as candidates for attainable surveillance within the 12 months earlier than the vote and within the months afterwards by NSO, whose spying instrument Pegasus permits clients to infiltrate cellphones and monitor messages, digicam feeds and microphones.
Phones belonging to at the very least 5 of Gandhi’s shut buddies and different Congress occasion officers had been additionally recognized as potential targets utilizing the spy ware, based on a leaked record of potential targets chosen by NSO clients. The information was accessed by the nonprofit journalism organisation Forbidden Stories and Amnesty International and shared with the Guardian and different media retailers as a part of the Pegasus mission.
It is essential to notice that The Guardian solely says that the quantity was “selected as potential target”. The flip of phrase makes it sound just like the Indian govt had deliberate to hack these telephones, nonetheless, the reality is way from it. It is pertinent to notice that within the earlier tales printed by The Guardian, it had itself, repeatedly stated that merely the truth that a quantity seems within the record doesn’t imply that the cellphone was hacked or that any NSO shopper even meant to hack the cellphone.
Essentially, The Guardian is saying that Rahul Gandhi’s numbers seems on the NSO record that they declare to have accessed, nonetheless, there is no such thing as a proof that he was hacked or that anybody had deliberate to hack him, not to mention the Indian govt that has refuted the declare that it even makes use of the Pegasus software program.
Further, additionally it is pertinent to notice right here that The Guardian has repeatedly asserted that it doesn’t have entry to NSO’s shopper record. That implies that they don’t know whether or not the Indian authorities is a shopper of NSO in any respect. NSO in actual fact spoke to ANI and stated that the record of nations talked about by the report is fake and that a number of the international locations usually are not even their purchasers to start with, nonetheless, on account of privateness considerations, they’ll’t reveal their record of purchasers.
Therefore, to additional draw the hyperlink that the Indian authorities POTENTIALLY hacked Rahul Gandhi’s telephones is a lie, one that’s being unfold by The Guardian with impunity.
The Guardian additional says:
It shouldn’t be attainable to say whether or not a cellphone within the leaked information was efficiently hacked with out forensic evaluation. But the consortium confirmed Pegasus infections, or indicators of potential focusing on, on telephones linked to 10 Indian numbers and on a further 27 telephones around the globe.
Gandhi, who modifications his system each few months to keep away from surveillance, was not capable of present the cellphone he used on the time for examination. A profitable hacking would have granted Modi’s authorities entry to the personal information of the prime minister’s major challenger within the 12 months earlier than the 2019 elections.
The Guardian right here admits that they don’t know whether or not Rahul Gandhi’s cellphone was hacked in any respect. However, they slyly make a conjecture that since they’ve supposedly discovered traces of Pegasus on 10 telephones in India, it’s fully attainable that this might be true.
It is to be remembered at this level that because the Modi govt has denied utilizing Pegasus, no one can say with definitely who actually wished to spy on the ten journalists and others, if in any respect. As talked about in our earlier report, it may simply as simply be China or the USA… and even Italy.
In the following paragraph, The Guardian takes the lies to a wholly new degree.
It fist admits that no forensics was completed on Rahul Gandhi’s cellphone as a result of he was not even in possession of those purported telephones any longer. However, after admitting that they’d no proof, they declare that IF AT ALL Rahul Gandhi’s cellphone was hacked, it might give the Modi govt entry to all his information.
Not solely does the Guardian make a wild allegation of hacking with out proof, after admitting that they’d not completed any forensic exams and the looks of a reputation doesn’t imply that the cellphone was hacked, however it additionally goes on to blatantly declare that on the off probability that it was hacked (no proof, bear in mind), it was completed by the Modi authorities (this, whereas the Modi authorities has denied utilizing Pegasus in any respect).
Prashant Kishor cellphone hacked, says The Guardian – Convenient circumstances
The Guardian report claims that Amnesty International performed a forensic check on the cellphone of Prashant Kishor and spherical that it had been hacked utilizing the Pegasus software program.
However, there’s fairly handy catch within the story.
The Guardian writes:
Forensic evaluation performed on Wednesday on the cellphone of Prashant Kishor, a political strategist working for the occasion that defeated Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) within the West Bengal state election earlier this 12 months, established it had been hacked utilizing Pegasus as lately because the day it was examined.
So allow us to break this down. Prashant Kishor’s quantity was within the record of fifty,000 numbers that the consortium claims to have accessed. Then, in the future, they method Kishor to provide his cellphone for a forensic check. Prashant Kishor agrees. However, at this level, his cellphone has NOT been hacked but, based on what The Guardian writes. Suddenly, the second the evaluation begin checking his cellphone and conducting forensic exams, on that very day, the cellphone will get hacked.
There is one thing worse right here. When was the check performed? On Wednesday. Considering this story was written and printed on Monday, meaning lower than every week in the past – 14th of July 2021. How does this relate to the Bengal elections and the Modi govt snooping on him in the course of the polls? Only Guardian can clarify.
The Guardian report additionally says that there was “evidence of Pegasus intrusion” in April, within the thick of the Bengal Elections. However, what was the proof and did the proof conclude who really hacked his cellphone? The Guardian doesn’t say. It doesn’t even point out the date on which it was hacked. It can’t as a result of they don’t have any proof to allege that it was the Modi authorities. But conjectures go a good distance in affecting regime change – simply ask the people who find themselves funding this operation.
The Wire makes the precise conjectures whereas speaking about former CJI Ranjan Gogoi and different employees members
The Wire too printed a report based mostly on the identical database to say that “Three phone numbers belonging to the Supreme Court staffer who accused former Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi of sexual harassment in April 2019 were selected as potential targets for surveillance by an unidentified Indian agency that is a customer of the Israel-based-NSO Group, The Wire can confirm”.
Let us perceive the implications of this. As defined earlier, they’re additionally saying that these had been “potential targets”, which implies that the numbers appeared within the record of fifty,000, however that, based on their very own stories, is not any proof that the cellphone was hacked. Further, The Wire CONFIRMED that it was by an “unidentified Indian agency”.
As defined earlier, there is no such thing as a proof that the Indian govt or any Indian company was a shopper of the NSO. Further, The Wire claims that the company is “unidentified”. One has to ask then how is it CONFIRMING that it certainly was an Indian company?
They don’t have the shopper record of NSO, they haven’t recognized this purported “Indian agency”, they don’t have any proof of the involvement of the Indian govt in any respect and the Indian govt has denied that they’re a shopper of Pegasus. However, that clearly didn’t cease The Wire from CONFIRMING, with confidence, that it certainly was an Indian company – simply that it was unidentified in the intervening time.
The Wire additional says:
Her presence within the record, and the timing of her choice, counsel that the explanation she and her household grew to become individuals of curiosity is as a result of she went public with severe allegations towards the sitting chief justice of India.
Nothing actually means that. Her identify within the record doesn’t even counsel that she was hacked or that the Indian govt thought-about her an individual of curiosity.
However, it’s evident from one other passage from The Guardian’s newest article that the intention shouldn’t be actually to give attention to information, however to create a story towards the Modi govt.
The Guardian writes:
Analysis of the greater than 1,000 largely Indian cellphone numbers chosen for potential focusing on by the NSO shopper that hacked Kishor strongly point out intelligence companies throughout the Indian authorities had been behind the choice.
Essentially, they went via 1,000 cellphone numbers (we don’t know who these individuals are, the record shouldn’t be obtainable) and determined that based mostly on the character of individuals, it MUST BE some intelligence company throughout the Indian authorities. From all of the information which have come to the fore, we all know already that this assertion has no foundation in actuality and at the very least, stands utterly unsubstantiated given what we all know now.
Forbidden Stories, hyperlinks to US institution and regime change propaganda in center east
The Wire acquired its info from Amnesty International and Forbidden Stories. FS was launched by the Freedom Voices Network and the Reporters Without Borders (RSF). RSF, previously, has funded media organisations that fund regime change propaganda to justify USA’s unlawful wars within the Middle East.
FS can also be funded by teams related to The Omidyar Group, George Soros’s Open Society Foundations amongst others who manufacture western propaganda to justify its without end wars. Thus, mixed with all the pieces that has been identified above within the report, the doubtful nature of the supply of data itself makes the allegations towards the Indian Government fairly unbelievable.