Drumpf, Spicer & The GCHQ...

Spicer on how Obama wire-tapped Drumpf:

“He didn’t use the NSA, he didn’t use the CIA, he didn’t use the FBI, and he didn’t use the Department of Justice. He used GCHQ,” declared Trump’s press secretary Sean Spicer at a press conference recently.

Of course, his angle is that a 'reputable Judge Napolitano said it in FOX. Just in case you say that this is fake news:

Then, the Brits got really [SIZE=5]MAD[/SIZE].

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/british-government-delivers-brutal-slapdown-10044555

"That’s just foolish and very very dangerous stuff, and President Trump better get a grip - not only on his own press officer, but on the kind of encouragement being given from the White House that makes a press officer make these stupid remarks in the first place.

"It’s dangerous because we’re not talking about a candidate for the presidency, that would be bad enough. We’re talking about the President of the United States. You cannot have his official spokesman making allegations against a fellow Nato government."

He added: "Spicer the press officer never had the remotest evidence. He was relying as he himself said on a Fox News report.

“You don’t just quote from a Fox News report if you’re the President’s official spokesman unless you’ve taken the trouble to find out whether that report is justified.”

GCHQ - the Government Communications Headquarters - works alongside MI5 and MI6 and focuses on defending the country against cyber threats. It usually refuses to respond on intelligence matters.

So:

[SIZE=6]White House apologises to UK after saying British spies could have tapped Trump’s phone
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[SIZE=4]How long is this circus going to last? Countdown to Sean Spicer’s firing 30, 29, 28, 27, 26, …[/SIZE]

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People getting paid for stupidity

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The original Tweets about Obama were bad enough, but the denials and diversions has made the affair 1000 times worse:

[SIZE=6]White House-GCHQ row reveals a leader willing to alienate allies to save face[/SIZE]

[SIZE=4]The extraordinary public rebuke by the United States’ closest surveillance partner has revealed an emerging characteristic of Donald Trump’s White House: a willingness to antagonize even its allies instead of admitting error.

GCHQ, the UK surveillance mammoth intimately linked to the National Security Agency (NSA), has taken public exception to an allegation repeated from the White House podium that, if true, would probably shatter the Five Eyes intelligence alliance so dear to both Washington and London.

Sean Spicer, the White House press secretary, credulously repeated on Thursday an account by a Fox News pundit, Andrew Napolitano, that GCHQ laundered surveillance on Trump at the behest of Barack Obama. Napolitano, who is in no position to actually know, made the allegation apparently to explain away the emerging consensus, even from senior Republicans on the intelligence committees, that there is no basis to Trump’s claim that Obama ordered that surveillance.

GCHQ practically never responds to stories about its operations. But the implications of this one are severe. There would be no way for the NSA and GCHQ, which are joined at the hip, to continue their partnership if GCHQ was willing to interfere in the US political process.[/SIZE]

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Can it get any worse than this

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FBI investigating Russia and trump right now

Only a fool cannot see that there is a relationship between Putin and Drumpf, even if Drumpf is too clueless to have sensed that he was being helped?

American intelligence agencies concluded in January that the President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia personally ordered a covert effort to hurt Hillary Clinton’s chances and aid Mr. Trump. That included the hacking of political targets including the Democratic National Committee and releasing embarrassing emails through the website WikiLeaks.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/20/us/politics/fbi-investigation-trump-russia-comey.html

Were there infiltrations of DNC computer systems? Did Wikileaks release details regularly? Did Comey mysteriously revive the Clinton email case right at the point where Trump’s defeat seemed inevitable?

The Old and the Restless continues

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So much chaos in Trump’s administration. It will not end well…

The Trump Administration is busy attacking America’s Allies, i don’t know what their end game is. Lets wait and see.

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