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Fox News suspends Andrew Napolitano over British spying claim
Washington Examiner ^ | • 3/20/17 8:39 PM | EDDIE SCARRY (@ESCARRY)

Posted on 03/20/2017 5:48:02 PM PDT by HokieMom

Fox News has indefinitely removed contributor Andrew Napolitano from its programming, following an unsubstantiated claim he made on air last week and that was refuted by U.S. intelligence officials, according to a report.

The Los Angeles Times reported Monday that Napolitano has not made any appearances on Fox since last Thursday.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: fakenews; fauxnews; foxnews; gchq; judgenap; judgenapvideo; napolitano
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To: mewzilla

top UK spy left to spend time with his family

Kimdotcom says US and Brits share info via a Spy Cloud..so they don’t break their own law about spying on citizens, etc.

I may have to shut down for awhile. The news to me is so depressing. I am getting sick to my stomach over Trump allowing Gorelick into the WH.


21 posted on 03/20/2017 5:54:54 PM PDT by RummyChick
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To: Billyv
Perhaps he is special prosecutor material?

I'd love that. Along with Joe diGenova.

22 posted on 03/20/2017 5:55:53 PM PDT by HokieMom (Pacepa : Can the U.S. afford a president who can't recognize anti-Americanism?)
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To: HokieMom

First of two parts and maybe more on the 7+ decades long history of the UK’s spying on our people and us spying on their people.

UKUSA Agreement
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The UKUSA Community: Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States

The United Kingdom – United States of America Agreement (UKUSA, /;/ew-koo-sah)[1][2] is a multilateral agreement for cooperation in signals intelligence between Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The alliance of intelligence operations is also known as the Five Eyes.[3][4][5][6][7]

In classification markings this is abbreviated as FVEY, with the individual countries being abbreviated as AUS, CAN, NZL, GBR, and USA, respectively.[8]

Emerging from an informal agreement related to the 1941 Atlantic Charter, the secret treaty was renewed with the passage of the 1943 BRUSA Agreement, before being officially enacted on 5 March 1946 by the United Kingdom and the United States. In the following years, it was extended to encompass Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. Other countries, known as “third parties”, such as West Germany, the Philippines, and several Nordic countries also joined the UKUSA community.[9][10]

Much of the sharing of information is performed via the ultra-sensitive STONEGHOST network, which has been claimed to contain “some of the Western world’s most closely guarded secrets”.[11]

Besides laying down rules for intelligence sharing, the agreement formalized and cemented the “Special Relationship” between the UK and the USA.[12][13]

Due to its status as a secret treaty, its existence was not known to the Prime Minister of Australia until 1973,[14] and it was not disclosed to the public until 2005.

[13] On 25 June 2010, for the first time in history, the full text of the agreement was publicly released by the United Kingdom and the United States, and can now be viewed online.[9][15] Shortly after its release, the seven-page UKUSA Agreement was recognized by Time magazine as one of the Cold War’s most important documents, with immense historical significance.[13]
The global surveillance disclosure by Edward Snowden has shown that the intelligence-sharing activities between the First World allies of the Cold War are rapidly shifting into the digital realm of the Internet.[16][17][18]

Due to its status as a secret treaty, its existence was not known to the Prime Minister of Australia until 1973,[14] and it was not disclosed to the public until 2005.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UKUSA_Agreement#Origins_.281940s.E2.80.931950s.29


23 posted on 03/20/2017 5:56:25 PM PDT by Grampa Dave ( Remember during Trump Tower Spydgate, there were No American fingerprints; just Obama's...!!!!:))
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To: HokieMom

So, Fox joins CNN, MSNB, ABC, CBS, NBC, etc.
When is Fox going to suspend Hannity?


24 posted on 03/20/2017 5:57:09 PM PDT by caver (Trump: Home of the Winner)
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To: dforest

NewsCorp execs endorsed John Kerry in 2004. When HAS Fox been watchable?


25 posted on 03/20/2017 5:57:14 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (patriots win, Communists and Socialist Just-Us Warriors lose)
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To: HokieMom

Unbelievable!


26 posted on 03/20/2017 5:57:32 PM PDT by McGavin999
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To: dforest

It’s been unwatchable for a very long time. I gave up after Obama was elected. Since then, the three times I’ve turned on a news channel was election night 2016, President Trump’s Inauguration, and his recent speech before Congress, and I had Fox Business News on for those.


27 posted on 03/20/2017 5:57:44 PM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: the_Watchman
Shouldn’t this have been posted in Breaking News?!!

Ok, I just added it. :^)

28 posted on 03/20/2017 5:57:57 PM PDT by HokieMom (Pacepa : Can the U.S. afford a president who can't recognize anti-Americanism?)
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To: HokieMom

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: 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.

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_progra


29 posted on 03/20/2017 5:57:57 PM PDT by Grampa Dave ( Remember during Trump Tower Spydgate, there were No American fingerprints; just Obama's...!!!!:))
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To: HokieMom

So legal correspondents are no longer allowed to share their informed opinions about the government agencies, rules, laws et al??

Sad, but predictable. Even so, it is a disgusting reaction by Fox.


30 posted on 03/20/2017 5:58:16 PM PDT by SecAmndmt (Arm yourselves!)
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To: umgud
"Shep just had an organism."

That's the gerbil up his butt.

31 posted on 03/20/2017 5:58:17 PM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: RummyChick

Crap. You weren’t kidding abiut Gorelick, were you. Holy ****.


32 posted on 03/20/2017 5:59:03 PM PDT by mewzilla (I'll vote for the first guy who promises to mail in his SOTU addresses.)
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To: HokieMom

Say what????

One of the few good guys on Fox. They’ve gone full retard.

Screw Fox.


33 posted on 03/20/2017 5:59:14 PM PDT by meyer (The Constitution says what it says, and it doesn't say what it doesn't say.)
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To: umgud
What sort of organism did Shep have, vertebrate or invertebrate? Shep is spineless so my money is on the latter.
34 posted on 03/20/2017 5:59:22 PM PDT by Yo-Yo
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To: HokieMom

I turned off my TV for good the day Fox hired Jerry Rivers back in 2002. Fifteen years and I haven’t missed it a bit.


35 posted on 03/20/2017 5:59:41 PM PDT by KevinB (Barack Obama: The best example in history of the dangers of affirmative action!)
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To: HokieMom

Sounds like Deep State finally got control of Fox.


36 posted on 03/20/2017 5:59:46 PM PDT by BobL (In Honor of the NeverTrumpers, I declare myself as FR's first 'Imitation NeverTrumper')
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To: HokieMom

Stop. Watching. Fox.

Just. Stop.

You’re enabling them.

Don’t do that.


37 posted on 03/20/2017 5:59:47 PM PDT by Black Agnes
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To: HokieMom

The article does not say FOX has confirmed this story...only that the LA SLIMES has reported the suspension. Let’s verify.


38 posted on 03/20/2017 6:00:00 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: HokieMom

Unsubstantiated? That’s their excuse? They didn’t even give the accusation time to play out.


39 posted on 03/20/2017 6:00:26 PM PDT by Crucial
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To: HokieMom

Deep State counterattack bump for later.....


40 posted on 03/20/2017 6:00:29 PM PDT by indthkr
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