Did Obama Use The “Five Eyes” Intelligence Agreement To Get Britain To Spy On Trump?
Few people outside of the U.S. intelligence community and congressional intelligence committees are aware of a post-World War II intel-sharing agreement between the United States and four other nations.
Known as “Five Eyes,” intelligence services from the U.S., Canada, the United Kingdom, New Zealand, and Australia are bound by what is formally known as the UKUSA Agreement outlining joint cooperation in the gathering, processing and sharing of signals, military, and human intelligence (SIGINT, MILINT and HUMINT).
In recent years, reports based on leaked secret documents indicate that, in order to get around each country’s strict rule against domestic spying, the various intelligence services from each of the five countries spy on citizens of all the other countries. In November 2013, The Guardian reported:
The phone, internet and email records of U.K. citizens not suspected of any wrongdoing have been analysed and stored by America’s National Security Agency under a secret deal that was approved by British intelligence officials, according to documents from the whistleblower Edward Snowden.
The following month, The Guardian reported that the Australian government’s spy agency had also offered to share information it had actually collected on its own citizens with the other Five Eyes members. In January 2014 the paper reported that the NSA had offered information on British citizens to the U.K.’s spy agency, and in June 2013 Reuters noted that Britain’s spy agency – the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), the equivalent of the CIA, was tapping international communications cables, then sharing captured data with the NSA. (RELATED: McCain Challenges Trump To Prove Obama Wiretapped Him… Even Though There’s Clear Evidence He Did.)
In short, the relationship between Five Eyes intelligence agencies has been incestuous, to say the least, with each agency tapping the communications of each others’ citizens and then sharing it with that country’s intel services.
With that being said, did President Obama utilize the unique Five Eyes agreement to bypass U.S. intelligence agencies to illicitly gather information on then-GOP presidential nominee Donald J. Trump’s campaign? Judicial analyst Judge Andrew Napolitano of Fox News seems to think so.
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