Hoo boy.
Posted on 04/13/2017 2:55:44 PM PDT by Mariner
That'd be UKUSA.
Sharyl Attkinson had a story last week detailing how the Brits have full access to the US data bases. She outlined how US agencies are restricted by the US constitution from accessing this to spy on US citizens, but the Brits aren’t. All it takes for someone (hint, hint) to ask, and the Brits may provide the data.
The power of Treaties...they Trump the constitution (no pun intended)
Amazing.... Tripling down on a Nothing Burger.
Hoo boy.
According to one account, GCHQ’s then head, Robert Hannigan, passed material in summer 2016 to the CIA chief, John Brennan. The matter was deemed so sensitive it was handled at “director level”.What kind of mindless idiot posts this shit with a straight face?
Illegitimate not because we didn't initially vote for them, but because once we did, they stopped serving us and began serving the O.B. Network and their own re-election, ignoring the "consent of the governed," which is that from which they would had drawn their legitimacy if indeed they had any left.
England is not immune to these temptations, as this article proves. Still, that only renders them among the many who need their naughty asses whipped, and Trump is just The Massah to flay the skin from their despicable hides.
GO TRUMP!!!!!
LMAO! I love you, man! Art is for man's sake! Tell it like it is, brother. You're preaching now. Mmmm, mmmm, mmmm!
;^)
Shucks, thanks Gargantua. Fight on!
We good?
LMAO! I really do appreciate your perspective and sense of irony. Fight on we shall, shan't we? LOL
The head of Britain’s electronic surveillance agency GCHQ has resigned!
23 January 2017*
Robert Hannigan, who has held the post of GCHQ director since 2014, said he was stepping down for family reasons.
He said he was proud of his work but that 20 years in public service roles had “demanded a great deal of my ever patient and understanding family”.
Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said Mr Hannigan had “led the renewal” of national security capabilities to fight terrorism during his time at GCHQ.
Mr Hannigan was director general of defence and intelligence at the Foreign Office before taking over the leadership of GCHQ in 2014.
In a letter to the foreign secretary, he said he was proud of the work he had done and “how many lives have been saved in this country and overseas by the work of GCHQ” but added “now is the right time for a change in direction”.
Mr Hannigan said it was “right” that a new director be in place ready for GCHQ’s 100th anniversary in 2019, but he would stay in the post until a replacement was appointed.
‘Cyber defences’
Sources have told BBC security correspondent Gordon Corera that the resignation was not the result of any concerns over policy in the UK or in the US.
Mr Johnson thanked him for his service, saying he had “set the groundwork for a major transformation of our cyber defences” during his tenure.
There will now be an internal competition within government to identify candidates for the job. Recommendations will then be sent to Mr Johnson and Prime Minister Theresa May for a final decision.
Mr Hannigan was born in Gloucestershire and is a married father-of-two.
He was previously responsible for the UK’s first cyber security strategy, oversaw the first national security strategy, and chaired Cobra emergency committee meetings on terrorist incidents.
He also worked as principal adviser to then Prime Minister Tony Blair on the Northern Ireland peace process.
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-38723040
*23 January 2017 (A couple of days after the $$$$ hit the fan aka Muscular and the UK’s GCHQ spying on Trump, his people and us!
How Many Countries Conspired Against Trump?
Powerline ^ | April 13, 2017 | John Hinderaker
Posted on 4/13/2017, 7:25:26 PM by 2ndDivisionVet
The Guardian adds to our knowledge of how the Obama administration and its allies overseas tried to discredit Donald Trump. (For purposes of this post, I assume that everything the Guardian says is true, even though it is based on anonymous sources who are pursuing their personal and political interests.)
Britain’s spy agencies played a crucial role in alerting their counterparts in Washington to contacts between members of Donald Trump’s campaign team and Russian intelligence operatives, the Guardian has been told.
GCHQ first became aware in late 2015 of suspicious “interactions” between figures connected to Trump and known or suspected Russian agents, a source close to UK intelligence said. This intelligence was passed to the US as part of a routine exchange of information, they added.
Over the next six months, until summer 2016, a number of western agencies shared further information on contacts between Trump’s inner circle and Russians, sources said.
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.
So just about every Western intelligence service was collaborating with the Obama administration in trying to elect Hillary Clinton. Yet, amazingly enough, they failed.
The blindingly obvious point that the Guardian tries to obscure is that the combined assets of all of these agencies failed to find any evidence of collaboration between the Trump campaign and Russia. We know this, because the Democrats have pulled out all the stops. Both before the election, and especially after the election, they have leaked furiously to try to discredit President Trump. If there were any evidence of collusion between Trump (or even obscure, minor “advisers” like Carter Page) and Russia, there would have been nothing else in the Washington Post or the New York Times for the past five months. But they have nothing.
What was really going on seems clear. Everyone involved in this story thought that Hillary Clinton was sure to win the election. Why? Because they read the Washington Post and the New York Times. Plus Real Clear Politics and 538. The suggestion that the Russian government tried to swing the election to Donald Trump is ridiculous. The Russians thought that Hillary was the certain winner, and if–a big if–they carried out a primitive phishing expedition into Debbie Wasserman-Schultz’s email account, and subsequently sent the DNC emails to Wikileaks, it was to cause trouble for Clinton after she became president.
Likewise, British intelligence and the other agencies mentioned by the Guardian thought there was no doubt but that Hillary would win. How could they curry favor with the new administration, expected to be Obama’s third term? By feeding negative information about the opponent who was sure to lose, even though there was no real significance to the intelligence provided.
That’s what happened. The fact that liberals still try to push the “Russia” story, even when it is obvious that they are out of ammo, is pathetic.
http://freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/3544021/posts
According to one account, GCHQ’s then head, Robert Hannigan*, passed material in summer 2016 to the CIA chief, John Brennan. The matter was deemed so sensitive it was handled at “director level”. After an initially slow start, Brennan used GCHQ information and intelligence from other partners to launch a major inter-agency investigation.
Brennan is the one behind all of this at the behest of Obama. The fact that it was so closely held makes it far easier to manipulate the bureaucracy with just a few people. We really don’t know the nature of the information or whether it was just fabricated by Brennan.
The head of Britain’s electronic surveillance agency GCHQ has resigned!
23 January 2017*
*Robert Hannigan, who has held the post of GCHQ director since 2014, said he was stepping down for family reasons.
He said he was proud of his work but that 20 years in public service roles had “demanded a great deal of my ever patient and understanding family”.
Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said Mr Hannigan had “led the renewal” of national security capabilities to fight terrorism during his time at GCHQ.
Mr Hannigan was director general of defence and intelligence at the Foreign Office before taking over the leadership of GCHQ in 2014.
In a letter to the foreign secretary, he said he was proud of the work he had done and “how many lives have been saved in this country and overseas by the work of GCHQ” but added “now is the right time for a change in direction”.
Mr Hannigan said it was “right” that a new director be in place ready for GCHQ’s 100th anniversary in 2019, but he would stay in the post until a replacement was appointed.
‘Cyber defences’
Sources have told BBC security correspondent Gordon Corera that the resignation was not the result of any concerns over policy in the UK or in the US.
Mr Johnson thanked him for his service, saying he had “set the groundwork for a major transformation of our cyber defences” during his tenure.
There will now be an internal competition within government to identify candidates for the job. Recommendations will then be sent to Mr Johnson and Prime Minister Theresa May for a final decision.
Mr Hannigan was born in Gloucestershire and is a married father-of-two.
He was previously responsible for the UK’s first cyber security strategy, oversaw the first national security strategy, and chaired Cobra emergency committee meetings on terrorist incidents.
He also worked as principal adviser to then Prime Minister Tony Blair on the Northern Ireland peace process.
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-38723040
*23 January 2017 (A couple of days after the $$$$ hit the fan aka Muscular and the UK’s GCHQ spying on Trump, his people and us, yes us!
Thanks for the important info. The timing of his resignation is more than coincidental given what we know now. Things get curiouser and curiouser.
We Shall Fight On! Go Trump! Go Sessions! Go Mattis! No Quarter!
British spies were first to spot Trump team’s links with Russia>>>>>
You mean the liberal fascist 5th column of British Intel conspired with the Obama , the FISA Court, Susan Rice , and Leftist FBI John Comey , a recent Board Member of the Clinton Foundation, to interfere with the Nov. 2016 US election?
Crucify THEM!
Question:
With all of these Congressionsl House Committee on Intelligence subpoenas floating around, why is Obama beyond service process in French Polynesia? ( He must be on holiday with British Intelligence Officers?)
The 5 eyes is not a treaty, ratified by the Senate. It’s a secret arrangement the NSA put together. There is no secret treaty provision of the constitution. And the arrangement is blatantly illegal. In police work it would be called a pretext. I understand that fedzilla is bound by no laws at all, but this is no different than hiring a hitman and insisting that means you arent guilty of murder.
Good points! Thanks for the clarification.
Burn!!!
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