Yes, based on the Snowdon and Vault 7 releases so far, in order to spy on their own citizens without the mess of getting a warrant, the UK and US governments came up with a cleaver plan: We have American’s assigned to GCHQ and they spy on Brits and we have Brits at NSA/CIA who spy on Americans. That way it is “foreign intelligence” that is being collected and not domestic surveillance.
Judge Napolitano is known to be a close associate and informal adviser to President Donald Trump. When Sean Spicer quoted from Judge Napolitano’s report of this arrangement being used by Barack Obama, it was kind of like the US Government confirming this little arrangement. The “announcement” from the May government is that the US government will not repeat these “ridiculous” assertions any more.
Kinda like having a E-5 Coast Guardsman on every intel gathering /LEO enforcement team to take advantage of his US Customs authority so we can claim that US military assets were not used in the intel gathering or enforcement actions against any US citizens?
“Yes, based on the Snowdon and Vault 7 releases so far, in order to spy on their own citizens without the mess of getting a warrant, the UK and US governments came up with a cleaver plan: We have American’s assigned to GCHQ and they spy on Brits and we have Brits at NSA/CIA who spy on Americans. That way it is “foreign intelligence” that is being collected and not domestic surveillance.”
This crap has to stop.
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