Can the Rolling Stones sue over the use of the “crossfire hurricane” lyrics by the USG? Asking for (and waiting on) a friend....
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Evidence continues to mount that Mifsud was connected to and was an asset of Britain’s MI6 and GCHQ and was at the heart of the illegal spying operation waged against Donald Trump as early as 2015.
remember Hannigan:
Wikipedia: Robert Hannigan
He was a senior British civil servant who previously served as the Director of the signals intelligence and cryptography agency the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ). He announced his resignation as Director on 23 January 2017 and stepped down at the end of April 2017 to pursue a career in private sector cyber security and academia...
According to the Guardian, his resignation was sudden and prompted speculation that it might be related to “British concerns over shared intelligence with the US in the wake of Donald Trump becoming president.”...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Hannigan
no doubt some misinfo/disinfo in the following pieces, but worth remembering:
24 Jan 2017: Guardian: GCHQ chief Robert Hannigan quits
by Ewen MacAskill
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/jan/23/gchq-chief-robert-hannigan-quits
13 Apr 2017: Guardian: British spies were first to spot Trump team’s links with Russia
Exclusive: GCHQ is said to have alerted US agencies after becoming aware of contacts in 2015
by Luke Harding, Stephanie Kirchgaessner and Nick Hopkins
The European countries that passed on electronic intelligence – known as sigint – included Germany, Estonia and Poland. Australia, a member of the “Five Eyes” spying alliance that also includes the US, UK, Canada and New Zealand, also relayed material, one source said.
Another source suggested the Dutch and the French spy agency, the General Directorate for External Security or DGSE, were contributors...
According to one account, GCHQ’s then head, Robert Hannigan, passed material in summer 2016 to the CIA chief, John Brennan...
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/apr/13/british-spies-first-to-spot-trump-team-links-russia
Nope. So I guess You Can’t Always Get What You Want.
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“Can the Rolling Stones sue over the use of the ‘crossfire hurricane’ lyrics”
I think the phrase was “a thing” before the Rolling Stones put it in song lyrics — a term used in weather when a hurricane changes directions or something.
Another question, can Durham “school them with a strap right across their back”?