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Synopsis: This is certainly one of THE most important stories I've ever done. Within the last hour we received what appears to be an official British TOP SECRET signals intelligence document dated Nov. 17, 2016, showing that President Obama and his National Security Advisor, Susan Rice were the ones who first requested electronic spying on the candidate Donald Trump, just 7 days after Trump won the Republican nomination in late August, 2016. The secret document, which has no redactions, was sent by Robert Hannigan, the Director of GCHQ, to Boris Johnson, the British Secretary of State for Foreign & Commonwealth...

Sir David Omand, a former director of Government Communications Headquarters GCHQ (UK’s NSA), a former intelligence and security coordinator for the Prime Minister (UK’s Director of National Intelligence) authored an editorial to the UK Guardian commenting on the Edward Snowden revelations of the NSA and GHCQ. While insisting that the NSA was acting within the scope of the law, he did point out that “The real debate we should be having … is about what privacy in a cyber-connected world can realistically mean given the volume of personal data we hand over to the private sector in return for our...