Posted on 06/14/2017 11:46:06 AM PDT by drewh
Russian Ambassador Sergei Kislyak’s phone was both hacked and turned into a ‘hot mike’ for recording conversations by a Five Eyes intelligence agency,
Sources with links to Western intelligence report that a similar ‘SS7’ exploit as that used by consent on the phones of James Comey, and other FBI agents, by the FBI and Justice Department, was placed on the phone of Sergei Kislyak – most certainly without his consent – and that the Russian Ambassador to the US not only had his phone bugged, but that his phone was being used as a microphone to record those with whom he was speaking.
Sources do not say when the exploit was placed on Kislyak’s phone. One source speculated that Ambassador Kislyak had only survived in his position in America ‘because of optics’.
The Five Eyes intelligence agreement prevents members of the world’s premier intelligence alliance – America, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United Kingdom – from spying on each other’s territories and citizens. However, crucially, embassies, such as those of Ecuador in London and Russia in Washington DC, are regarded as sovereign territory of their native countries. The NSA is free to spy within the Ecuadorean embassy in London, and GCHQ, its British equivalent, is free to spy within Russia’s embassy in DC. The Five Eyes alliance is the closest intelligence partnership in the world. Recently Canada assisted DGSE, France’s CIA, in spying on Rebel Media on behalf of M. Macron, the then French Presidential candidate. Sources report that both the FBI, NSA and Britain’s GCHQ assisted Canada in this operation, because of the involvement of the Russian partisan Jack Posobiec.
It is not known however if tapes were recorded via a Five Eyes SS7 exploit placed on Mr. Kislyak’s phone, or by normal surveillance of any Russian Ambassador on US soil that is always carried out by the American authorities.
Sources with links to Western intelligence would not give any details of when the exploit was placed or how long it had lasted.
We will now be wondering – along with the Russians – just how much intelligence Five Eyes has managed to gather, and for how long, from Mr. Kislyak’s phone.
Western intelligence sources said that their motives for speaking on background on this matter were to warn Mr. Trump and his associates that further attacks on the U.S. intelligence community, particularly on Director Comey’s integrity, would not be tolerated. Laws governing intelligence ‘leaks’ or whistleblowing do not apply to the sovereign allies of the United States, many of whom, both inside and outside Five Eyes, have hard signals intelligence on Donald Trump and his family. DGSE, who as a NATO ally outside Five Eyes are not prevented from spying on Americans by treaties.
Multiple, separate sources with links to the intelligence communities of more than one nation, used the phrase ‘gloves off’ when describing the situation with Russia and Trump. Vladimir Putin has attempted to intervene in Brexit, in the French election and in elections all over Europe, and has personally exposed all of Russia, and that nation’s economy, to the intense rage of the far richer and more powerful Western world. Understanding the principle of ‘deniabilty,’ intelligence sources inside and outside the US intelligence community have suggested that leaks of information by allied nations may serve US intelligence by freeing them from blowing the whistle themselves. Sources linked to one specific Five Eyes intelligence partner noted that ‘deniability’ is designed to allow witnesses to tell the truth on the stand. If, theoretically, British intelligence sources were to disclose information on Mike Flynn – as retired MI6 head Sir Richard Dearlove did to the Financial Times – US intelligence would not be consulted, even through a back channel, these sources said.
Sources reported that Director Comey was regarded with affection throughout allied intelligence, and that Donald Trump’s scornful attitude towards NATO – since Trump is perceived as a mere proxy of Russia, without thought or direction of his own, by the west – has enraged allied intelligence services, who are more than prepared to judiciously release intelligence at strategic times (such as Mr. Sessions’ testimony) to make it clear that Russia and Trump standing in the way of the FBI and Director Mueller’s inquiry will not be tolerated.
payback is a witch pootie poot!
Far fetched and based on the writing style I suspect this was written by a drunken Ukrainian
Writer of this should remember that she has a math test to study for and an early lacrosse practice at the school field today. Too much time in room on pink iphone.
I hope the good guys (both Team Trump and the many patriots within the intelligence community) will make sure that the full truth gets out rather than such a biased and distorted version that it’s essentially a lie. I want the President of the United States cooperating with Russia to obliterate terrorists across the globe, and I don’t care if we have to ignore Russia’s past bad behavior to get that cooperation.
Article smells fishy
This could be good news for TRUMP
Means, he doesn't have a leaker inside!
Took about 5 minutes t find this was some more of that crazy Mensch woman’s stuff.
Zero credibility.
I read she is a Conservative so WTF is going on?
so...there are 'tapes'?
Reads like the Pee Pee Dossier.
Five eyes is a creepy entity. It is a sophistry, designed to skirt the law against spying on American citizens by having a foreigner do it and give the results to the CIA/NSA.
If you hire someone to commit murder for you, you are not innocent of murder.
Stories like this make me wonder if our intelligence agencies create far worse problems than they ever solve.
Perhaps but the “five eyes” have been co-operating since the early 1940’s. Don’t expect the intelligence services of the anglosphere to cut ties any time soon. The relationship is too deep.
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