When It Comes to Meddling in the US Election, Was it the UK?

Sic Semper Tyrannis ^ | 3/25/2017 | Publius Tacitus

[AC Beach Patrol]

I learned a long time ago that when you are close to the truth the opposition, if there is any, springs into action and launches a desperate counter attack. That appears to define what happened in the wake of Fox News suspending Judge Andrew Napolitano for the following claim:

that former US President Barack Obama asked British intelligence agency GCHQ to monitor President Donald Trump. . . . Andrew Napolitano, a political commentator and former New Jersey judge, said on Tuesday Obama used GCHQ in order to "make sure there were no American fingerprints."

"Three intelligence sources have informed Fox News that President Obama went outside the chain of command - he didn't use the NSA, he didn't use the CIA, he didn't use the FBI and he didn't use the Department of Justice," said Napolitano. "He used GCHQ." Well, the Brits went absolutely bonkers. GCHQ came as close to having a full blown aneurysm as any bureaucratic entity can. "We've made clear to the administration that these claims are ridiculous and they should be ignored and we've received assurances that these allegations will not be repeated," a Downing Street spokesman told reporters.

One of Judge Napolitano's sources apparently was Larry Johnson. However, according to Johnson, the Judge did not accurately report what Johnson had said. According to Mr. Johnson, President Obama did not order anything. Instead, information collected by GCHQ was passed to people in the U.S. intelligence community and then distributed in an unauthorized manner. To deny that GCHQ did not do anything in response to a request from President Obama, but that does not mean that GCHQ (aka General Communication's Headquarters) was passive and doing nothing...

[AC Beach Patrol]

GCHQ. U.K. Our good "friends" the Brits.

[Lurkinanloomin]

The truth is that the country that meddled in our election the most was MEXICO!

[DesertRhino]

The Brits worked hard to hurt Trump. The Saudis gave Hillary 20 million. The Mexicans were very involved. China has given the Clintons cash for years.

But none of that matters for some reason.

[Ouchthatonehurt]

This kind of thing is BO’s MO - look what he did to Jack Ryan to get his senate seat.

[Vendome]

Why couldn’t it be China? Hungary? Check? No. Korea?

[expat2]

You have to realize that GCHQ and NSA have a very close relationship and routinely share surveillance data. So Brennan or one of his henchmen at NSA only has to have a quiet chat with his opposite number in the UK

[piasa]

...Such was the case with a well-publicized December 5, 2005 letter of support to Senator John McCain, promoting his amendment to the Defense Appropriations Bill “reinforcing the ban on cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment by all U.S. personnel around the world.” The implication, without evidence, was that the torture allegations being recklessly thrown around at U.S. soldiers were all true. Among the 33 who signed the document were Richard Clarke, a close partner of Mary O. McCarthy in the Clinton Administration’s NSA; Melvin Goodman, CIP’s senior fellow; Ray McGovern, a close working ally of Goodman who has written for publications associated with conspiracy theorist and former Marxist Lyndon LaRouche; and Larry Johnson, a long-time friend and defender of Valerie Plame and Joe Wilson. (Careful media observers will also note that McGovern and Johnson were the mainstream media’s “go to” experts on the CIA in the wake of the Mary McCarthy firing.) ... --- https://www.academia.org/dana-priest-in-denial/

[piasa]

(snip)...The declerations made by Waxman to La Repubblica would appear somewhat singular. But just who is Waxman? The Congressman is linked to the millionaire Lyndon La Rouche, another exponent of the Democrats who, in Italy, are active through Movisol (International Movement for Civil Rights - Solidarity) and in the United States through the Executive Intelligence Review, which, on June 13 2003, circulated the following piece of disinformation: “according to EIR intelligence sources the Niger documents were produced inside the Niger Embassy in Rome and were passed to the Italian Carabinieri (Military Police) who then, without commenting at all, passed the documents to the British MI6 and the CIA”. Basing himself on this disinformation Waxman wrote a letter to Bush demanding an explanation, none ever arrived due to the simple fact that the EIR scoop was totally baseless. No trace of the Carabinieri, no trace of British or Americans. Nothing at all. All that remains is a network of spies, anti-Bush giornalists and Democrat Senators who all seem to forget two or three things: Rocco Martino was a spy employed by the French; Niger is an ex Frech colony; the French control the extraction of uranium in Niger; the French had the dossier containing the false documents in the autumn of 2000; in regards to the forgeries France remained silent, never telling the Americns a word about the forgeries, until after the IAEA disclosed all. ...(/snip)
——— Nigergate: the dangerous relations between Democrat Senators and ex spies
Il GIORNALE 13 November 2005 By Gian Marco Chiocci and Mario Sechi via FR thread Nigergate: the dangerous relations between Democrat Senators and ex spies
november 15, 2005 Posted on ?11?/?15?/?2005? ?1?:?52?:?47? ?PM by parnasokan

[ganeemead]

"When It Comes to Meddling in the US Election, Was it the UK?"

Yes. I love questions with simple answers...

[Fedora]

Johnson mentions he is still active in a VIPS discussion group here: Brian Stelter's Guest Exposes CNN's Pre-Interview Procedure. Interestingly, he mentions that the group features "a complete ideological spectrum, from right to left", which is something I've been noticing.

[moose07]

[datricker]

Not only is much of the news fake but the events themselves are Kabuki Kooky theater. Seriously lets think about some things.

• It didn't matter what health care bill came out of the house it was DOA in the senate. So now we must be all pissed and count coupe - why am upset that a crappy replacement that was never going to happen didn't happen exposing Ryan further as backstabbing snake
• So I'm supposed to pretend that if Trump did get the votes and this passed it would create some sort of legislative momentum that would magically make president Trumps enemies purchase a ticket on the Trump train.
• Why the artificial deadline? This is the most important thing if its not done by Friday well then screw it. WTF? Thats not how people do things. They show up on Monday and continue to work till finished maybe even come in on Saturday.
• Why did Trump need the Russians to win again? And how did they keep Hillary out of Wisconsin?
• Judges have no say in border security or immigration for that matter - who the hell cares what they say in this regard
• No way moonlight was the best movie of that crappy set of candidates
• And lastly why is there any pretending that anyone likes Speaker Ryan. He and Comey could seem to be competing to see who can be a bigger snake - Why does anyone one pretend he is a leader. Nobody follows Ryan unless he gives them money - hich whe does. Paul Ryan is a big fat phony who is about as interesting as watching paint dry. He isn't the leader in the House after today

  Crazy Gingrich Please

It just seems DesertRhino the underlying premises to so many of the stories of the day are phony, contrived and artificial.

president Trump seems to be deregulating and wall building while focusing vigorously on American business and jobs. I think he understands these are going to be the hard hours as its the best and last chance that many apparatchiks in the Uniparty have to take him out as he rips the levers of power away from them each day.

President Trump is going to be savaged beaten upon for a good month all the while making gains in jobs, deregulation

Then America will wake up one morning soon and see somebodies been building a Wall.

[Parley Baer]

One thing about Newt is he is his own man. He is not beholden to the corrupt establishment and IMHO he would work well with President Trump.

[tinamina]

The US government meddled in our election. They have this big database you see that Maxine Waters told us about. John Brennan thunk it up. They know your bank account number and everything about you. If they knowing about you they know it about Trump

[tophat9000]

I make that suggestion back in a post on 3/21 that you could make the case the UK metal in this election

http://freerepublic.com/focus/news/3536689/posts?page=30#30

[tophat9000]

metal= meddled

So much for voice recognition

[FlingWingFlyer]

Mexico played a bigger part in meddling in our election than any other country. Mexico is the real threat to American “democracy”. That’s why the Bolshies are focusing all the attention on the Russkis. They don’t want anyone looking at Mexico because that’s where it gets really ugly when it comes to our election. There are a lot of gullible and dumb people living and voting in this country who will believe anything they hear from the fascist left “media”.

[euram]

The biggest meddlers in our elections has been the media. BTW, the Russians are pretty tight with Podesta, and gave millions to the Clinton Foundation in exchange for buying US uranium, but no one talks about that either.

[WayneLusvardi]

we have to remember that the head of the GCHQ British Intel Service, Robert Hannigan quit suddenly on January 23, 2017 under a pretense of wanting to have more family time. It was speculated thereafter that Brit Prime Minister asked for his resignation which was quite unexpected. Hannigan is the guy who raided the Gay-Lesbian flag at the GCHQ building in Britain in a show of solidarity. Did Trump call Brit Prime Minister Teresa May and ask for Hannigan’s head?

[virgil]

That’s what I think. Most of the meddling was done by the U.S.government.