{"id":30665,"date":"2017-04-19T13:28:30","date_gmt":"2017-04-19T17:28:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=30665"},"modified":"2017-04-19T13:28:30","modified_gmt":"2017-04-19T17:28:30","slug":"interesting-information-from-an-unlikely-source","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=30665","title":{"rendered":"Interesting Information From An Unlikely Source"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wikipedia defines the Government Communications Headquarters<\/b> (GCHQ<\/b>) as a British<\/a> intelligence<\/a> and security<\/a> organisation responsible for providing signals intelligence<\/a> (SIGINT<\/a>) and information assurance<\/a> to the British government<\/a> and armed forces.<\/a>This group played an interesting role in the 2016 presidential election in America. The American Spectator<\/a> reported today on some aspects of that involvement. The article at The American Spectator refers back to an article in the U.K Guardian<\/a> on April 13th. The perspective on the story in the two articles is very different, but both stories have valid points.<\/p>\n

The article at the U.K. Guardian reports:<\/p>\n

Britain\u2019s spy agencies played a crucial role in alerting their counterparts in Washington to contacts between members of Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s campaign team and Russian intelligence<\/a> operatives, the Guardian has been told.<\/strong><\/p>\n

GCHQ<\/a> first became aware in late 2015 of suspicious \u201cinteractions\u201d between figures connected to Trump and known or suspected Russian agents, a source close to UK intelligence<\/a> said. This intelligence was passed to the US<\/a> as part of a routine exchange of information, they added.<\/strong><\/p>\n

…Instead both US and UK intelligence sources acknowledge that GCHQ played an early, prominent role in kickstarting the FBI\u2019s Trump-Russia investigation, which began in late July 2016.<\/strong><\/p>\n

One source called the British eavesdropping agency the \u201cprincipal whistleblower\u201d.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Guardian has been told the FBI and the CIA<\/a> were slow to appreciate the extensive nature of contacts between Trump\u2019s team and Moscow ahead of the US election. This was in part due to US law that prohibits US agencies from examining the private communications of American citizens without warrants. \u201cThey are trained not to do this,\u201d the source stressed.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cIt looks like the [US] agencies were asleep,\u201d the source added. \u201cThey [the European agencies] were saying: \u2018There are contacts going on between people close to Mr Trump and people we believe are Russian intelligence agents. You should be wary of this.\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n

I would like to point out that with all this electronic surveillance and all this investigating, there has not been one concrete, proven charge of the Trump campaign<\/a> working with Russia to impact the election. I would also like to point out that the people in charge of this electronic surveillance in America (the Obama Administration) had a sincere interest in making sure Donald Trump was not elected President.<\/p>\n

The article at The American Spectator has a different perspective:<\/p>\n

An article in the\u00a0Guardian<\/em>\u00a0last week<\/a> provides more confirmation that John Brennan was the American\u00a0progenitor of political espionage aimed at defeating Donald Trump. One side did collude with foreign powers to tip the election \u2014 Hillary\u2019s.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Seeking to retain his position as CIA director under Hillary, Brennan teamed up with British spies and Estonian spies to cripple Trump\u2019s candidacy. He used their phony intelligence as a pretext for a multi-agency investigation into Trump, which led the FBI to probe a computer server connected to Trump Tower<\/a> and gave cover to\u00a0Susan Rice, among other Hillary supporters, to spy on Trump and his people.<\/strong><\/p>\n

John Brennan\u2019s CIA operated like a branch office of the Hillary campaign, leaking out mentions of this bogus investigation to the press in the hopes of inflicting maximum political damage on Trump. An official in the intelligence community tells\u00a0TAS<\/em> that Brennan\u2019s retinue of political radicals didn\u2019t even bother to hide their activism, decorating offices with \u201cHillary for president cups\u201d and other campaign paraphernalia.<\/strong><\/p>\n

A supporter of the American Communist Party at the height of the Cold War, Brennan brought into the CIA a raft of subversives and gave them plum positions from which to gather and leak political espionage on Trump. He bastardized standards so that these left-wing activists could burrow in and take career positions. Under the patina of that phony professionalism, they could then present their politicized judgments as \u201cnon-partisan.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

The article at The American Spectator concludes:<\/p>\n

Were the media not so completely in the tank for Obama and Hillary, all of this political mischief would make for a compelling 2016 version of All the President\u2019s Men<\/em>. Instead, the public gets a steady stream of Orwellian propaganda about the sudden propriety of political espionage. The headline writers at\u00a0Pravda<\/em>\u00a0couldn\u2019t improve on this week\u2019s official lie, tweeted out by the Maggie Habermans: \u201cSusan Rice Did Nothing Wrong, Say Both Dem and Republican House Aides.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Liberals pompously quote the saying \u2014 \u201cthe bigger the lie, the more it will be believed\u201d \u2014 even as their media enshrine it. Historians will look back on 2016 and marvel at the audacity of its big lie: whispers of an imaginary Trump-Russia collusion that wafted up from the fever swamps of a real collusion between John Brennan and foreign powers seeking Trump\u2019s defeat.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I am convinced that collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia does not exist. I am also convinced that the relationship between Hillary Clinton and Russia should be much more scrutinized than it is.<\/p>\n

As I reported here<\/a> in December 2016:<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s look at some of the history between Hillary Clinton and the Russians. in April 2015, Breitbart.com<\/a> reported that the chairman of the Russian Nuclear Agency-controlled Uranium One<\/a> funneled $2.35 million to the Clinton Foundation. This was followed by the Uranium One deal that allowed the Russians to acquire control of one-fifth of America\u2019s uranium. So the mainstream media is trying to tell me that Russia would rather do business with Donald Trump than Hillary Clinton. You can bribe Hillary Clinton. I\u2019m not sure you can bribe Donald Trump.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The lesson learned in the contrast between the articles in The American Spectator and the U.K. Guardian is that the media can twist a story in any direction it chooses. It is up to the readers to do the research into the background of the story.<\/p>\n

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