Excellent article!
Posted on 04/13/2017 7:25:26 PM PDT 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.
Just did a blog post on how Judge Napolitano was proven correct when he said the British were surveilling Trump via their GCHQ. Fox News owes him an apology for suspending him.
http://dtforpres.blogspot.com/2017/04/cnn-confirms-judge-napalitano-was-right.html
The countries who donated to the Clinton Foundations ?
In addition a good the major Silicon Valley corporations coordinated and aided the efforts of the DNC and the countries named above.
JMHo
Agreed, Fox needs to publicly apologize to the judge.
All of them?
Donald J. Trump is the most thoroughly vetted President of the United States in history and yet they still just can’t shut up. But, they supported the most secretive, unknown President in US history, Barack Obama, and never even tried to investigate his background, actively participated in concealing it in fact. A pox on the lot of them.
The fascist government of Ukraine was definitely involved.
The socialists in the UK hate our guts (and that’s an understatement). Know this first hand (many academic dinner parties). When I said they should break ties with the US because of all the whining...I was met with utter SILENCE.
They want US to shed OUR ‘blood and treasure’. Not them.
answer: all of them. It’s called globalism for a reason.
Bookmarked.
ping for later.
There is one party that works with a foreign nationals to influence elections at every level of US government.
Democrats work with Mexicans.
Democrats in Congress gave the President of Mexico a standing ovation for his calls to change US law.
Hillary’s 2016 presidential campaign held Fund raisers in Mexico.
Americans can be real mindless at times. But this election, they paid attention and blasted all the powers that be.
Hope Trump sticks with them on his America First philosophy and promises.
I was reading this article and getting a sense of de ja vu. Napolitano! thank you, Pinkbell.
You're right, I forgot them. Probably because every time I think of Ukraine I think of Soros, not a country.
Mexico, China, the EU...
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