Interesting that the chatter is increasing about the British intelligence service doing the spying at the behest of the Obama administration. The story has been out there for awhile, but it never really gained a footing. Kim Strassel just wrote about it and you can find lots of articles from over a year ago.
Consider how dirty this is....... the outgoing administration used our supposed “best friend” to spy on the opposition candidate and this coincided with the inexplicable Obama memo granting access to a dozen agencies from two or three so the information would be more likely to leak.
Who colluded with who? I think, as others have suggested, that the fear of releasing the EC is that it will show that our supposedly closest ally, the UK, did the spying. It will be.a scandal here and a scandal there.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/17/world/europe/trump-britain-obama-wiretap-gchq.html
This article was from over a year ago......
A lot of people are unwilling to admit that the UK never stops serving its own interests. If said interests also benefit the US, the UK is our "ally."
Not that the UK has been different from any other government.
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>> “Interesting that the chatter is increasing about the British intelligence service doing the spying at the behest of the Obama administration.” <<
Been going on full blast since Gerald Ford took office.
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I'm sorry, but this isn't even "news". It's been known for decades that British intelligence spies for the US and the US spies for the Brits. It is how they get around any laws against domestic surveillance. Of course, Americans don't care as long as the bread and circuses continue uninterrupted.