Posted on 01/23/2018 8:48:19 AM PST by mairdie
This has been republished from Sept. 20, 2017
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Six U.S. agencies created a stealth task force, spearhead by CIAs Brennan, to run domestic surveillance on Trump associates and possibly Trump himself.
To feign ignorance and to seemingly operate within U.S. laws, the agencies freelanced the wiretapping of Trump associates to the British spy agency GCHQ.
The decision to insert GCHQ as a back door to eavesdrop was sparked by the denial of two FISA Court warrant applications filed by the FBI to seek wiretaps of Trump associates.
GCHQ did not work from London or the UK. In fact the spy agency worked from NSAs headquarters in Fort Meade, MD with direct NSA supervision and guidance to conduct sweeping surveillance on Trump associates.
The illegal wiretaps were initiated months before the controversial Trump dossier compiled by former British spy Christopher Steele.
The Justice Department and FBI set up the meeting at Trump Tower between Trump Jr., Manafort and Kushner with controversial Russian officials to make Trumps associates appear compromised.
Following the Trump Tower sit down, GCHQ began digitally wiretapping Manafort, Trump Jr., and Kushner.
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I know.
It's the metaphor of the frog in the slowly boiling water. It's the nature of government incrementalism. Each little win (unconstitutional abuse) that they get away with emboldens them to reach a little further the next time. The MSM labels each occurrence as a lone-wolf, stand-alone, or isolated incident, when in fact its part of a long-lead strategy of encroachment. Republicans are like abused wives, they know what's going but are reflexive in not speaking about it to avoid future abuse.
At some point, the parties become arrogant in their success, and the cloak comes off. That's where Democrats were leading up to the election of 2016. They thought they could do anything, and the "intelligence community" that was corrupted by the Clintons in the late 1990s had continued to step up their own spy infrastructure throughout the Bush years, ready to serve Obama liberals.
-PJ
What was the negative spin the media put on the subject?
They mainly were just trying to pin down what Trumps positions were. Why doesn’t he release the memo? She responded he is in favor of full transparency. At least they are asking about it instead of their usual game of ignoring as it didn’t happen. One reporter even asked why he didn’t just fire Mueller.
Thanks. I should, but I rarely read the news conference reports. The reporters just get to me.
Bmk
BUMP
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