Breitbart News reported that former president Obama had wiretapped Trump with the aid of British intelligence during the US election campaign.
Both Judge Napolitano and Roger Stone, a Trump confidante, have stated that the British government spied on Trump for Barack Obama before the November election. Stone told DailyMail.com that “despite the quick denials,” he believes “Judge Napolitano is correct”.
“My own sources high up in the Tory government, who are quite powerful, assured me that there was surveillance by the Brits,” Stone says.
Meanwhile the British cabinet appears to have accepted the resignation of the current director of the GCHQ, Robert Hannigan, for “personal reasons”. The Sunday Times reported that he would be replaced by the current director of the MI5, Jeremy Fleming.
The relations between London and Washington have soured somewhat, with the Trump Administration considering that the British are allied to the US Deep State.
Hannigan’s sudden resignation – he informed staff just hours before making this decision public – prompted speculation that it might indeed be related to British concerns over shared intelligence with the US in the wake of Donald Trump becoming president.
The GCHQ was forced to publicly respond to claims made by President Donald Trump accusing the agency of wiretapping his phones. In a rare and unprecedented move, GCHQ called the claims “nonsense” and “ridiculous”.
In a statement posted to the agency’s website at the time, Hannigan, who has been at the helm of the group since 2014, said he would leave when a replacement was found.
In October 2016, GCHQ – as well as MI6 and MI5 – was found to have collected bulk communications data and bulk personal datasets in an unlawful way for more than two years. Their information collection had “failed to comply” with the European Convention on Human Rights.
In his first week in office, Hannigan created controversy with a column published in the Financial Times accusing US technology companies of becoming “the command and control networks of choice” for terrorists.
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