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Report: British Intelligence Agencies, In Addition to Six Other Nations, Were All Spying on Trump

About a month ago, Fox suspended Judge Nap for suggesting British intelligence had spied on Donald Trump. The media went hysterical, saying the good judge was filled with UFO styled conspiracy theories.

Here was his claim.

A spokesman for the GCHQ at the time called the claims ‘nonsense’, proclaiming “They are utterly ridiculous and should be ignored.”

Lo and behold, the Guardian is out with an exclusive tonight — rebuking the GCHQ denial — confirming that Obama had received information from the British spy agency, possibly to avoid being detected by people investigating FISA warrants. In addition to Britain’s GCHQ, Mi6 was also involved, and 4 other nations —  as part of the intelligence gathering apparatus called SIGINT — who then ferried their findings to Obama. The spying nations were Germany, Estonia, Poland and Australia.

Another guardian source said both France and the Netherlands were possible contributors to the Trump spying ring too.

CNN reporting:

The GCHQ became aware of  ‘suspicious interactions’ in late 2015.

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.

It is understood that GCHQ was at no point carrying out a targeted operation against Trump or his team or proactively seeking information. The alleged conversations were picked up by chance as part of routine surveillance of Russian intelligence assets. Over several months, different agencies targeting the same people began to see a pattern of connections that were flagged to intelligence officials in the US.

In typical spin, the Guardian’s source posited the notion that something improper had taken place between the Russians and Trump.

“It looks like the [US] agencies were asleep,” the source added. “They [the European agencies] were saying: ‘There are contacts going on between people close to Mr Trump and people we believe are Russian intelligence agents. You should be wary of this.’

“The message was: ‘Watch out. There’s something not right here.’”

The Guardian claims the GCHQ head, Robert Hannigan, passed the information in the summer of 2016 to the CIA boss, John Brennan. In turn, Brennan told the ‘gang of eight’ in the House and Senate that there was evidence Russia was trying to swing the election towards Trump, then reported by the NYT.

According to the Guardian, intelligence agencies were progressing in their attempts to tie the hacking of John Podesta’s email box, Russia, and the Trump team.

“They now have specific concrete and corroborative evidence of collusion,” the source said. “This is between people in the Trump campaign and agents of [Russian] influence relating to the use of hacked material.”

We eagerly await their findings.

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58 comments

  1. dopefeller

    You are upset that they were spying (picked up while monitoring known hostile country intelligence operatives) or that they have “specific concrete and corroborative evidence of collusion”

    Sounds like the former to me.

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    • reversion

      “Multiple communications over many months between trump advisors and Russian officials”

      Fkn treason, hang them all

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      • reversion

        Can u imagine the fkn outrage if this was a dem??? Ahahahahahah joke

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  2. sarcrilege

    Tells you the prez is blackmailable just like any other politician.

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  3. dopefeller

    Word on the street is that Rudy Giuliani is on a race along with Flynn – To cut a deal
    MAGA via treason
    Enjoy!

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    • Dr. Fly

      That’s fake news.

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      • dopefeller

        We shall see. This will be the longest April on record

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        • Dr. Fly

          It will be the same exact duration as every other April since the beginning of time.

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          • dopefeller

            Einstein. I bow to thee

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          • moneybagz

            Dopefeller, the vitriol and arrogance you speak with is the exact reason people voted for Trump to shut you up. You’re not special. Just because you are a “progressive” doesn’t mean your logic is modern or better. And you are terrible at hiding the bias.

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          • frog

            Vitriol and arrogance on the part of liberals here, LOL? Right. The average liberals here is 10X more respectful to others than the average Trumpeter here.

            Trumnpeters are snowflakes just like Trump himself– thin skinned people who can dish it out but can’t take it. Trumpeters expect others to treat you 100X better than you treat them, and are enraged when that doesn’t happen.

            Trumpland is one big narcissism club of thin skinned snowflakes.

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  4. dopefeller

    BTW, your very own “republican administration” is calling Wikileaks a “hostile intelligence service”. That’s your buddy Assange in case you forgot.

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    • dopefeller

      Donald “Traitor” Trump: “I love wikileaks”
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUtT0b0EnSw

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    • Dr. Fly

      Who is a republican here?

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      • dopefeller

        You. Calling yourself neutral is a bigly lie.
        You promote propaganda that is anti-anything-not-republican

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        • Dr. Fly

          I am not neutral. I am independent. And to say that I shill for GOP fuckheads is simply untrue. I fucking hate them.

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          • moneybagz

            I think dopefeller needs a hug or another drag of the special K.

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          • frog

            Fly, you bash Dems pretty much constantly. Once in a while you do bash an establishment Republican.

            And Trump is doing almost all GOP stuff– has cabinet full of crony capitalist welfare queens, is destroying the EPA, helping out private prisons, trying to restart the colossal failure War on Drugs, helping the .01% crony capitalist welfare queens like his cabinet and screwing over the 99.99%. And in war, he’s starting to look like a redo of GW Bush.

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  5. dmfracer

    US counter intelligence is MIA in this whole shit show. Eventually they will have to compromise a source to actually take action and protect US Citizens

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    • dopefeller

      Which citizens? The likes of Robert Hansen?
      Those are traitors who end up in solitary confinement.

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  6. Dr. Fly

    One thing is clear, it looks like King Obama is going to gaol.

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  7. dopefeller

    Mike Pompeo 2016: “Need further proof that the fix was in from Pres. Obama on down? BUSTED: 19,252 Emails from DNC Leaked by Wikileaks”

    Mike Pompeo 2017: Wikileaks is a “hostile non-state intelligence service”

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    • moneybagz

      Wahhhhhhhhhhh. Pompeo flip flopped. Welcome to the game motherf*cker. Obama has a monster collection of flip flops

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  8. dopefeller

    “Be prepared, there is a small chance that our horrendous leadership could unknowingly lead us into World War III.”

    Donald Trump – 8/31/2013

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    • cancel19

      That is what you Demonrats wanted! Enjoy sending your baby pink wearing hatted snowflakes to WAR! With enuf butch dykes as canon fodder, we can do this! Extra LBGT!

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      • frog

        No Democrat wanted this. You Trumpeters own it. Your guy did it.

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        • cancel19

          At you all’s request! Hillary likes it. 😉

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        • anjingbauwau

          Frog there are no good choices Hilary or Trump was a condemnation of the political system in America…..I understand how you feel and and I know you are an outsider on this blog.

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          • frog

            Hillary was a million times better choice than Trump, though she was not perfect. But the Right Wing media, and Right Wingers talking and writing on neutral and Left Wing media, kept telling one lie after another about her and making one unsubstantiated accusation after another about her.

            We are immersed in propaganda and tons of it was anti-Hillary lies and bs and rumor and innuendo.

            You folks here are going to regret not voting for her, if you have not already.

            You don’t change the system by voting for a narcissistic billionaire who tells you what you want to hear and then immediately betrays you.

            You change the system by finding true civil servants and electing them to Congress and the presidency. You get people who will find a way to overturn Citizens United. Instead of doing that, this country is going in the opposite direction. Trump isn’t draining the swamp. Trump IS the swamp.

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  9. dmfracer

    Seriously, wtf is going on in Washington, D.C. that turns people into…what, I don’t know what the term is, but whatever has them so scared makes them all align toward the same goals.

    Why can’t D.C. just be straight with us, the American people, as to what the fuck is so scary?

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    • frog

      Why would anyone in government tell voters anything? People have been voting for Republicans in Congress for years, and they’ve been screwing you, and you keep voting for them. Why would any of them need to change what they’re doing now? It works perfectly. The more they screw people, the more votes they get.

      They treat voters like mushrooms– keep them in the dark and feed them bullshit lies from Fox, Drudge, Limbaugh, Breitbart etc. Works like a charm.

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      • t.c.

        When we lost the cold war, the Democrats were complicit in aiding and abetting the enemy and they still are. Difficult to vote for that.

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        • frog

          In your fantasies only. Not in the real world. In the real world, Republicans now control everything. But we are so immersed in Right Wing propaganda in the U.S. that the Republicans still have you idiots believing that the party that has no power over anything, is responsible for the Republicans’ mistakes.

          Propaganda is powerful.

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          • t.c.

            Cultural marxism is the main problem. We have to eliminate it to have a future and the Dems are the proponents of it.

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  10. traderconfessions
    traderconfessions

    You crazy fucks hired a clown for 4 years and now you’re surprised he’s acting like a clown? Enjoy the bombs bursting air. Glad I don’t live on the West Coast. Long Uranium detectors.

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    • frog

      But but it’s all the Democrats fault, don’t you know, Trader Confessions? You know–
      the party that controls zero branches of government. Now that Republicans control all branches, they still want to blame everything on Dems who have no power to do anything now. Blaming powerless people is what you do when you are a snowflake Trumpeter who won’t take personal responsibility for who you voted for.

      We all make mistakes sometimes. But Trumpeters will make the same mistakes over and over, because they don’t want to admit they made a mistake and change courses.

      The North Korea guy is just beating his chest boasting about nothing. He claims to have nukes that can reach the West Coast, but I’ll bet he doesn’t.

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      • MSGT HARTMAN

        Apr 13:…Dr. Jumana Nagarwala was arrested by the FBI Thursday and charged with carrying out female genital mutilation (FGM) on multiple six to eight-year-old girls at her Livonia, Michigan office.

        MAGA

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    • t.c.

      Why do you guys assume that the West coast gets nuked first. The nukes come over north pole, plus they travel at 20x the speed of sound at that speed NYC to San Fran takes 18 minutes.

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  11. dopefeller

    “Asked last week what was Mr. Trump’s biggest success for his anti-establishment base, White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders pointed to the president’s five-year lobbying ban on administration officials.

    But this week, the White House waived that ban for Marcus Peacock, a senior administration official who left the Office of Management and Budget to join the Business Roundtable, which lobbies on behalf of major corporations. Bloomberg News first reported Mr. Peacock’s waiver on Wednesday.”

    Enjoy!

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    • frog

      Dopefeller, you know you have said some very true things when you get a score of 3 “fake news.” These conspiracy theory lovers and Right Wing propaganda believers here on this site hate the truth more than anything.

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      • derp

        How’s the taste of his ass? Seeing as how you’re so far up in it.

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  12. ferd

    I believe somebody new is writing under the frog id tonight. Much more able to make a cogent argument than the regular frog. Still biased re party though. Leave the D and R out of your arguments new frog.

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    • cancel19

      The tadpoles change with the pollution of the waters!

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    • frog

      I know, Ferd, you and other people here don’t like reality.

      But the reality is partly about D and R. Doesn’t make any sense to leave D and R out of arguments, when the reality is that voters have voted in Republicans to control all 3 branches of government, and yet voters have been successfully persuaded by propaganda to always blame Dems for everything.

      Well, Republicans now control everything, by the voters’ choice. If you don’t like government now, it can not possibly be the Dems’ fault. And if you want a change in government, then elect Dems next time. That’s the real world. Pardon me for mentioning it here on this fantasy and conspiracy theory web site.

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  13. s.k.

    For all the Democrat bashing that goes on around here it is pretty rich that you voted one into office. Fucking idiots.

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  14. heckler

    The problem in washington and in politics is the two party system! The DNC and RNC are private organizations, and are in no way constitutionally protected. In fact, many of our nation’s founders were concerned with powerful factions and actually tried to protect against them.

    I respect those who thought they were voting for an outsider. This is why many of us favoured Bernie indeed.

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    • anjingbauwau

      The problem in washington and in politics is the two party system!….. winner winner give the man a chicken dinner

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    • ironbird

      For the love of all things holy and fun and not evil. Bernie is a fucking fake Communist. Devil with a fat wife and no skills. Fucking Satan. What will it take. You are your own problem. The Gov is death. They will lend a helping hand so can you rape and kill and starve and suicide and murder and bitch while doing it. Bernie was the ultimate fraud. Wake up.

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      • heckler

        I happen to disagree. But you have a colourful persepctive!

        Personally? I don’t think gov is always the problem. I think that’s retarded.. Take health care… I’d rather get dragged of a plane like a blood-faced little screamer once or twice than not get to see a doctor. And if I was a woman, I’d want to go get my little fucking vag looked at, or whatever? You know?

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      • joshua

        Iron is probably right, the gubernment man….. looks how well our school system did with him. Scary.

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  15. anjingbauwau

    Trump is accelerating the fourth turning… when the time comes the next crash will be the mother of all crashes… problem is I don’t know if those betting on the crash will get paid or not…..

    PS 2018 or after for the monster crash… next week we may well see a mini flash crash when the bots get all fucked up and home in on a technical break and signal sell. that would set up a buy but it isn’t going to be pretty or easy.

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  16. frog

    If Trump starts Nuclear WWIII of the Small Hands, you folks will say “But Obama had wars too. He continued Bush’s wars in the M.E. And Benghazi, Benghazi (the big nothingburger scandal that was investigated almost endlessly and nothing illegal was found) about Hillary.

    You can’t defend anything Trump does on its own merits. So you just find something remotely similar, and 1/100th as bad, that a Democrat once did and then claim it’s okay. You can never say Trump did the right thing, because he never does. You can only say “Oh a Dem did something remotely similar, so that excuses Trump”

    Excuses excuses. That’s all Trump supporters have.

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    • MSGT HARTMAN

      Apr 14….AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A private prison company announced Thursday it has won a $110-million federal contract to build in Texas the first new immigrant detention center under the Trump administration.

      U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement already has a record of more than 41,000 detainees.

      MAGA

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