NSA official: Reports that British spied on Trump 'arrant nonsense'

CNN ^ | Sat March 18, 2017 | Eugene Scott

[HarleyLady27]

...I noticed that, and I did notice all the chatter since...but the thing of it is, CNN and others are still supplying cover for the people that are trying to ruin our Country...

Why is Comey and McCabe still there??? Why are others that worked in the Clinton, Bush and bami groups still there???

We need people that support America and Our President...and we need to start Grand Juries instead of this ‘Congressional Hearings B.S.’ that is to shut us up as they protect the crooks...

[Seruzawa]

I love it when deep staters identify themselves.

[txhurl]

You think May is sweating how to explain to Rex how her guys were SO CONVINCED HRC would win that trashing our special relationship should DJT winning was a worthy risk?

[RC one]

Also according to The Guardian's Glenn Greenwald even low-level NSA analysts are allowed to search and listen to the communications of Americans and other people without court approval and supervision. Greenwald said low level Analysts can, via systems like PRISM, "listen to whatever emails they want, whatever telephone calls, browsing histories, Microsoft Word documents.[30] And it's all done with no need to go to a court, with no need to even get supervisor approval on the part of the analyst."[44] He added that the NSA databank, with its years of collected communications, allows analysts to search that database and listen "to the calls or read the emails of everything that the NSA has stored, or look at the browsing histories or Google search terms that you've entered, and it also alerts them to any further activity that people connected to that email address or that IP address do in the future."

[Robert357]

Once more CNN is into FAKE NEWS. Several British papers are saying that the Brits did spy on Trump prior to the election and that they gave the information to the US Government.

Now people need to learn who got the information, was it political and if it was, was it at the request of the Obama Administration

[Grampa Dave]

Thanks, you have "encouraged me" to update from 5 EYES, Echelon, and Muscular to Prism:

Also according to The Guardian's Glenn Greenwald even low-level NSA analysts are allowed to search and listen to the communications of Americans and other people without court approval and supervision. Greenwald said low level Analysts can, via systems like PRISM, "listen to whatever emails they want, whatever telephone calls, browsing histories, Microsoft Word documents.[30] And it's all done with no need to go to a court, with no need to even get supervisor approval on the part of the analyst."[44] He added that the NSA databank, with its years of collected communications, allows analysts to search that database and listen "to the calls or read the emails of everything that the NSA has stored, or look at the browsing histories or Google search terms that you've entered, and it also alerts them to any further activity that people connected to that email address or that IP address do in the future."

[Steven Tyler]

0bama just wet himself from laughing so much

[Chewbarkah]

“a complete lack of understanding in how the relationship works.” Each side is barred from asking for such prohibited actions, he [Richard Leggett] added.

Leggett has bolstered my theory of “how it all worked”:
1) Neither the US IC nor Hillary nor Obama, et al, asked British GCHQ, Five Eye, or any other of its foreign intel partners to surveille Trump or his associates. The foreigners were passive players following normal procedures.
2) Those partners constantly and routinely send the US large amounts of intel, including vast categories of digital data they pick up in diverse parts of the world.
3) Surveilling Trump folks was accomplished by the US intel community searching this data and filtering it for anything they could tie to Trump and Trump-related persons.
4) This product was forwarded to Susan Rice, for analysis and use. She had the NSC staff digested it to look for exploitable patterns or anything politically embarrassing. Thus the “extensive spreadsheets” that have been mentioned in connection with Rice’s operation. I assume there are also physical or digital link charts, by which they expand the data mining to everyone who communicates with the surveilled.

Leggett is actually being truthful. This was a domestic spying operation by subversive elements (”Democrats”) within the US government. Coordination with foreign agencies did not occur because it was unnecessary.

[mac_truck]

At least this DDO is willing to go on the record, albeit with the BBC.

It might be a good idea to invite him to go on the record again...under oath in front of the US Senate.

[Cementjungle]

The fact that he’s spent much of the past several years claiming that there’s nothing wrong with the NSA spying on all of us. He wanted to give Snowden amnesty.