Posted on 03/14/2017 5:31:15 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Via the Daily Wire, that’s quite a claim. The president of the United States using a foreign intelligence agency to spy on the other party’s presidential candidate, for the obviously illicit purpose of erasing any domestic paper trail of his actions? “Scandal of the decade” material. And yet it falls not to the Fox News investigative team to break the story but to legal commentator Andrew Napolitano — and not on one of Fox’s marquee shows like O’Reilly or Tucker but on Fox & Friends and Martha MacCallum’s program. You’d think a scoop like this would be in 50-point font on the Fox website, but as I write this at around 4:45 ET, they’re leading with a story about a probe of IT staffers who work for House Democrats. How come?
Sean Davis thinks this is a game of telephone gone bad inspired by the “Trump dossier,” which was compiled by a British ex-spy. Could be. It gains some plausibility from the fact that the U.S. and UK are part of the “Five Eyes” intelligence-sharing arrangement, which of course includes the NSA and GCHQ (Britain’s NSA). It’ll also seem a bit more credible than it might have in light of the surprise resignation in January of Robert Hannigan as head of the GCHQ. Hannigan stepped down three days after Trump’s inauguration, ostensibly for personal reasons, having served just two years on the job. With news swirling at the time about the Trump dossier, some Brits speculated that the real reason he resigned might have been “related to British concerns over shared intelligence with the US in the wake of Donald Trump becoming president.” On top of all that, the Times reported just two weeks ago that two foreign intelligence agencies, the British and the Dutch, had provided intelligence on meetings allegedly held last year between Trump “associates” and Russian officials in European cities. It wouldn’t be surprising if the Brits had offered some information related to the probe into Trump staffers’ relationships with Russia. It would be surprising, and big, big, biggggg news, if it turned out Obama had secretly sought access to Trump communications intercepted by the NSA by asking the Brits to access the system and then hand them over to the White House.
The more attention this gets, the more incentive Fox will have to follow up on it, so give it some attention. Exit question: Doesn’t Trump watch Fox & Friends religiously? How has he not tweeted about this yet?
Update: Brits are chastising me on Twitter for my brain fart in describing GCHQ as “Britain’s CIA,” which is MI6, instead of what it really is, Britain’s NSA. I’ve fixed the error.
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Give the Churchill bust back. It’s probably got bugs in it anyway.
“Hack” wouldn’t be the appropriate word to use.
All of the data was sitting there in the massive NSA database. For anyone to have used it within the US group....you would require a court order or warrant. Because of the ‘friendship’ of the UK and various deals with Brit intelligence, they have free access to the database, without a court order.
My guess is that NSA had some kind of filter and knows when the Brits come in to browse through the data, and they know what they were looking at.
The problem really becomes...do you want to dump this relationship with Brit intelligence by laying out the cards? Did PM May even know about the request by the Obama White House? And what else did the WH request besides Trump’s data?
Have you been eating your Wheaties, 2DV? Seems like it...
The more my health deteriorates the less I have to lose.
Despite the United Nations being housed in New York, London is and has been the capitol of the world. It took the place of Rome some 300 years ago, give or take.
Larry Johnson of the NoQuarters blog ...and of VIPS... Claims he was one of Nappy’s sources.
Oops! CNN accidentally confirms story that Brit intell passed along Trump (Trunc.)
The American Thinker ^ | 03/20/17 | Thomas Lifson
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