The FBI informed the Israeli government in a 2018 letter that it had purchased Pegasus, the notorious hacking tool, to collect data from mobile phones to aid ongoing investigations, the clearest documentary evidence to date that the bureau weighed using the spyware as a tool of law enforcement. The FBI’s description of its intended use of Pegasus came in a letter from a top FBI official to Israel’s Ministry of Defense that was reviewed by The New York Times.
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