Documents obtained by the New York Times show the FBI paid nearly $5M for Pegasus spyware, going so far as to draw up guidelines for federal prosecutors about how the bureau should disclose use of the hacking tools during domestic criminal proceedings.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/12/us/politics/fbi-pegasus-spyware-phones-nso.html

Internal Documents Show How Close the F.B.I. Came to Deploying Spyware

Christopher Wray, the F.B.I.’s director, told Congress last December that the bureau purchased the phone hacking tool Pegasus for research and development purposes.

@kennwhite Chris Wray needs to go.