Investigator Gavin De Becker is pointing fingers at Saudi Arabia for gaining access to Jeff Bezos‘ phone.

In an op-ed published by The Daily Beast on Saturday, De Becker talked about his work trying to uncover the persons — or entity — who gave the National Enquirer salacious private texts from Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos.

According to De Becker, who has worked with Bezos for over 20 years, the Enquirer’s lawyer insisted it was not Saudi Arabia or the White House behind the texts and tried to get him “to say there was no hacking.”

The Enquirer also tried to place the blame on Bezos’ girlfriend’s brother.

De Becker explained his version of the events where he says Michael Sanchez was fingered as the culprit, even though The Enquirer contacted him first.

“It was not the White House, it was not Saudi Arabia,” a company lawyer said on national television, before telling us more: “It was a person that was known to both Bezos and Ms. Sanchez.” In case even more was needed, he added, “Any investigator that was going to investigate this knew who the source was,” a very helpful hint since the name of who was being investigated had been made public 10 days earlier in a Daily Beast report.

Much was made about a recent front-page story in the Wall Street Journal, fingering Michael Sanchez as the Enquirer’s source—but that information was first published almost seven weeks ago by The Daily Beast, after “multiple sources inside AMI” told The Beast the exact same thing. The actual news in the Journal article was that its reporters were able to confirm a claim Michael Sanchez had been making: It was the Enquirer who first contacted Michael Sanchez about the affair, not the other way around.

Yet De Becker’s most stunning revelation was his conclusion that Saudi Arabia did — in fact — access Bezos’ phone and private information.

“Our investigators and several experts concluded with high confidence that the Saudis had access to Bezos’ phone, and gained private information,” the investigator wrote, making sure to clarify he does not have the evidence to prove AMI knew of the hack.

“As of today, it is unclear to what degree, if any, AMI was aware of the details,” he wrote.

Read the full op-ed here.

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