Posted on 03/20/2017 5:55:37 AM PDT by pgkdan
Also interesting: The Brits denials all relate to “wiretapping”. I’ve seen no denials relating to any other forms of surveillance.
The head of Britain’s electronic surveillance agency GCHQ has resigned!
23 January 2017*
Robert Hannigan, who has held the post of GCHQ director since 2014, said he was stepping down for family reasons.
He said he was proud of his work but that 20 years in public service roles had “demanded a great deal of my ever patient and understanding family”.
Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said Mr Hannigan had “led the renewal” of national security capabilities to fight terrorism during his time at GCHQ.
Mr Hannigan was director general of defence and intelligence at the Foreign Office before taking over the leadership of GCHQ in 2014.
In a letter to the foreign secretary, he said he was proud of the work he had done and “how many lives have been saved in this country and overseas by the work of GCHQ” but added “now is the right time for a change in direction”.
Mr Hannigan said it was “right” that a new director be in place ready for GCHQ’s 100th anniversary in 2019, but he would stay in the post until a replacement was appointed.
‘Cyber defences’
Sources have told BBC security correspondent Gordon Corera that the resignation was not the result of any concerns over policy in the UK or in the US.
Mr Johnson thanked him for his service, saying he had “set the groundwork for a major transformation of our cyber defences” during his tenure.
There will now be an internal competition within government to identify candidates for the job. Recommendations will then be sent to Mr Johnson and Prime Minister Theresa May for a final decision.
Mr Hannigan was born in Gloucestershire and is a married father-of-two.
He was previously responsible for the UK’s first cyber security strategy, oversaw the first national security strategy, and chaired Cobra emergency committee meetings on terrorist incidents.
He also worked as principal adviser to then Prime Minister Tony Blair on the Northern Ireland peace process.
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-38723040
*23 Jmuary 2017 (A couple of days after the $$$$ hit the fan aka Muscular and the UK’s GCHQ spying on Trump, his people and us, yes us!)
exactly.
This is like coming home and announcing “Honey, I didn’t cheat on you today.” Up until now, I wasn’t thinking that you had. The fact that you felt the need to announce it makes it immediately suspect.
All this little mack daddy queer did was work behind people’s backs... it’s what beta males do, chicken crap that they are. Deception, deflection, word parsing, false income sources and arm’s length.
The same people who brought us a “video” at Benghazi, gun-running and creating an enemy out of another enemy, al-qaeda to ISIS with the cooperation of the mil-industrial complex.... that is who did this for the muzzie in chief who was to dismantle the USA in the image of an evil globalist non-sovereign world “State”. This will be a long battle, and we must not stop cleaning this utter wasteland up.
“they were very concerned about this because they saw it as an unfair meddling in the politics”
Total word games. The phrases “very concerned” and “saw it as an unfair meddling” are meaningless and inconclusive. The statement doesn’t contradict the possibility of their full and complete approval and participation.
Yes, and the parsing and tap-dancing the propagandists do in relation to the expression “wire tapping” can be entertaining. They think that if you don’t send someone physically into the building to install a “wiretap” then they can deny that they did any kind of surveillance at all.
Plausible deniability has become sacred doctrine is the cesspool our government operates in.
I will strongly disagree with you there: Obola knew NOTHING about what was going on, and was utterly incapable of understanding nor anticipating ANYTHING the world, US policy, or international events. He WAS, however, shielded very well by people who DID control and advance his” agenda internationally and domestically.
In large part they did that by shielding him from any and all knowledge and information, and by feeding him limited news and stories by teleprompters in front of his national press corpse in the ABCNNBCBS media.
What did he know, and when did he know it?
I hope the MSM and liberactionaries chase their own tails (or are they being chased BY their own tails) forever on this.
“’But it was done with the full knowledge of people like John Brennan and Jake clapper. Two people I flow within the intelligence community in January, they were very concerned about this because they saw it as an unfair meddling in the politics, but it was a way to get around the issue of American intelligence agencies not collecting.’” Is this saying that Brennan and Jake Clapper were “concerned about this”? That certainly runs counter to the perceived knowledge around here.
Get a load of this.
It sounds like Johnson needs to be called to testify who he heard that from. He’s implying that he had a source in either Brennan or Clapper’s circle.
More conclusive than anything showing Trump Colluding with Russia.
That quote was from the transcript, and was what Johnson was saying .
I wonder if Larry Johnson was all along feeding Napolitano info from his friends at Russia Today?
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