US Senator Ron Wyden, a Democrat, said he sent a letter to the US National Security Agency to request an assessment of the threat to White House officials who communicated with Saudi Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman with letters on their personal phones.
Widen refers explicitly to Jared Kushner, the president's adviser, because of his strong personal relationship with the Saudi crown prince. He added, "For the Saudi crown prince to reach Jared Kushner's phone, it is like planting a listening device in the White House."
Senator Wyden's warnings were preceded by Senator Chris Murphy and Senator Chris Kunz, and they see that Kushner's and Ben Salman's relationship carries with it a threat to US national security given the reports that the two men communicate through WhatsApp.
On Thursday, the White House said it was taking seriously reports of the Bezos phone being hacked.
In a related context, the British newspaper "The Guardian" quoted the UN investigator for extrajudicial killings, Anis Kalamar, her determination to uncover phone leads, the founder of the Amazon website and the owner of the Washington Post, Jeff Bezos.
Kalamar said that her desire to reveal this issue stems from her keenness to show who is of strategic importance for Saudi Arabia.
Kalamar has previously said that the circumstances surrounding the Bezos phone piracy operation are at the heart of the investigations into the killing of Jamal Khashoggi, noting that piracy took place at a time when Khashoggi was writing articles critical of the Saudi authorities.
It started in April 2018 when Bezos attended a dinner party with the Crown Prince and exchanged numbers. Then - specifically in May of the same year - Bezos received an encrypted video file sent from the Saudi Crown Prince's WhatsApp account, followed by the start of leaking huge amounts of data From the Bezos phone.
Bezos then said that he received WhatsApp messages from Muhammad bin Salman containing private and confidential information about his personal life, according to what was reported by the media between November 2018 and February 2019, the period that followed the murder of Khashoggi.
In January 2019, the National Inquirer began publishing private conversations with Bezos that were leaked from his phone, and brought him together with his former broadcaster girlfriend, Fox News, Lauren Sanchez.
One month before the private messages were leaked, Jeff's wife Mackenzie Bezos announced that she was planning to divorce, confirming that they had been separated for a long time.