Posted on 03/17/2017 5:30:05 AM PDT by UKrepublican
The US has agreed not to repeat claims the UK's communications intelligence agency wiretapped Donald Trump in the weeks after he won the US election.
GCHQ denied allegations made by the White House that it spied on Mr Trump as president-elect.
No 10 has been assured the allegations would not be repeated, a spokesman for Prime Minister Theresa May said.
He said it had been made clear to US authorities the claims were "ridiculous and should have been ignored".
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...
Part two of ??? parts history of our agreement where the Brits spied on our people and we spied on their people for 7+ decades. Unlike PRISM, the MUSCULAR program requires no (FISA or other type of) warrants.
“It couldn’t possibly be true, because that is not how our system works,” Pelosi said during a Christian Science Monitor breakfast in Washington.
“We do not investigate, through a FISA court, Americans — here or abroad.”
Well, Nancy how about this: Unlike PRISM, the MUSCULAR program requires no (FISA or other type of) warrants.
MUSCULAR (surveillance program)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
MUSCULAR (DS-200B), located in the United Kingdom,[1] is the name of a surveillance programme jointly operated by Britain’s Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) and the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) that was revealed by documents which were released by Edward Snowden and interviews with knowledgeable officials.[2] GCHQ is the primary operator of the program.[1]
GCHQ and the National Security Agency have secretly broken into the main communications links that connect the data centers of Yahoo! and Google.[3]Substantive information about the program was made public at the end of October 2013.
Contents:
1 Overview
2 Operational details
3 Reactions and countermeasures
4 Gallery
5 See also
6 References
7 External links
Overview:
The programme is jointly run by:
– Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) (United Kingdom)
– U.S. National Security Agency (NSA)
MUSCULAR is one of at least four other similar programs that rely on a trusted 2nd party, programs which together are known as WINDSTOP.
In a 30-day period from December 2012 to January 2013, MUSCULAR was responsible for collecting 181 million records. It was however dwarfed by another WINDSTOP program known (insofar) only by its code DS-300 and codename INCENSER, which collected over 14 billion records in the same period.[4]
Operational details:
According to the leaked document the NSA’s acquisitions directorate sends millions of records every day from internal Yahoo! and Google networks to data warehouses at the agency’s headquarters at Fort Meade, Maryland.
The programme operates via an access point known as DS-200B, which is outside the United States, and it relies on an unnamed telecommunications operator to provide secret access for the NSA and the GCHQ.[3]
According to the Washington Post, the MUSCULAR program collects more than twice as many data points (“selectors” in NSA jargon) compared to the better known PRISM.[2]
Unlike PRISM, the MUSCULAR program requires no (FISA or other type of) warrants.
Because of the huge amount of data involved, MUSCULAR has presented a special challenge to NSA’s Special Source Operations. For example, when Yahoo! decided to migrate a large amount of mailboxes between its data centers, the NSA’s PINWALE database (their primary analytical database for the Internet) was quickly overwhelmed with the data coming from MUSCULAR.[5]
Closely related programmes are called INCENSER and TURMOIL. TURMOIL, belonging to the NSA, is a system for processing the data collected from MUSCULAR.[1]
According to a post-it style note from the presentation, the exploitation relied on the fact that (at the time at least) data was transmitted unencrypted inside Google’s private cloud, with “Google Front End Servers” stripping and respectively adding back SSL from/to external connections.
According to the Washington Post: “Two engineers with close ties to Google exploded in profanity when they saw the drawing.” After the information about MUSCULAR was published by the press, Google announced that it was working on deploying encrypted communication between its datacenters.[2]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUSCULAR_(surveillance_program)
in reply to the Senate/House Intel chairs’ statements about no evidence of wiretapping, Sean Spicer gave a listing for 7 minutes of press reports alluding to surveillance. i think the British thing was included.
Not fake news. This was the way to get around the FISA warrants. Have the UK do it, but in a “casting a wide net” type way, and oops- Trump and crew were recorded. President Trump is getting more and more people to fall into the the trap. Do you really think he’s that stupid to say this stuff without any evidence??
The UK’s MI-5 and MI-6 are past-masters in the art of lying to the public. You create a spy agency which is devoted to hiding the truth and you can never really depend on what its leaders say — e.g., Clapper testimony.
Spicer read for Judge Napolitano’s article making the accusation, apparently.
Didn’t a prostitution/escort allegation come from England?
Spicer apparently read from the udge’s piece in a press conference. The media here cried that Spicer made the charge himself.
Inconvenient truth, wonder if Al Gore will pick this up or is inconvenient truth a only synonym for fake news?
There really better be strong evidence for what Trump wrote on Twitter other than news reports because he will have no credibility after this strong allegation. So much to go after Obama, Hillary and co. and he better not have messed up with this.
CYA time by the intelligence communities in multiple countries it appears. One tweet by the president saying he was wiretapped and all the rats are running for cover.
Oh ye of little faith
Weakly, you have turned on Him already
Head UK spy quit to spend time with his family.
The peculiar mixture of diplomatese with lawyerly vehement non-denial says that there is definitely a “there” there.
So the BBC speaks for the US now.
How about this. US says UK spied on Trump and is gonna get spanked. UK will bend over and take it because they are pussies.
Kinda like having a E-5 Coast Guardsman on every intel gathering /LEO enforcement team to take advantage of his US Customs authority so we can claim that US military assets were not used in the intel gathering or enforcement actions against any US citizens?
WH repeated what Judge Nap. said.
If Spicer thinks the Judge knows what he is talking about he is crazy,he is wrong most of the time and his inside sources are fictional
Judge Nap: Obama ‘Went Outside Chain of Command,’ Used British Spy Agency to Surveil Trump
http://insider.foxnews.com/2017/03/14/judge-napolitano-why-there-may-never-be-proof-even-if-obama-spied-trump
How many times now, has he come out with an apparently random comment on Twitter that was broadly condemned yet turned out to be substantially correct? Can you think of an instance wherein he wasn’t?
I expect more than Trump and Spicer just reading reports and allegations and everyone should. Trump chose to make this a focus and there better be a there there. Bad enough he hasn’t hit back hard enough on Russia, but to give enemies this if he doesn’t have solid proof!
Table-pounding absent facts and law.
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