T. Belman. Help me out here. I seem to recall that the US had a deal with M16, the British spy agency to do the spying on Israel in the US that the US was barred from doing.
Fox News commentator Judge Andrew Napolitano dropped a bombshell Tuesday when he said that former President Barack Obama may have used a foreign spy agency to surveil President Donald Trump, a move that would have basically eliminated any trail leading back to the former president’s administration.
During an interview on Fox News‘ “Fox & Friends,” Napolitano said that Obama bypassed American spy agencies and obtained transcripts of Trump’s conversations from Britain’s Government Communications Headquarters, which is the equivalent of the U.S. National Security Agency.
“Three intelligence sources have informed Fox News that President Obama went outside the chain of command — 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,” Napolitano said.
“So by simply having two people go to them saying, ‘President Obama needs transcripts of conversations involving candidate Trump, conversations involving president-elect Trump,’ he’s able to get it, and there’s no American fingerprints on this,” he concluded.
“Big Brother is here, and in control. Big Brother cannot be stopped. Be still, and love Big Brother.”
Again, So, now what, Ted? My daughter and grandchildren live in Red China, where people take continual surveillance in stride. The citizens of the UK, I am told, have the dubious honor of being the most spied on (with surveillance cameras) people in the world. Now we have joined those two and others, knowing that every keystroke on our computers, and possibly our conversations with our microwaves (If you can’t trust your microwave, whom can you trust?) are collected and stored by multiple, often hostile, government agencies.
What’s next, I think, is,
“I sold you and you sold me, under the spreading chestnut tree”.
— http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/32773-under-the-spreading-chestnut-tree-i-sold-you-and-you
George Orwell saw this happening in the UK during WWII. Now, thanks to Wikileaks, we know it is happening all over the world. Orwell did not offer any solution; he just presented the little-believed facts of life. I am doing the same. I HAVE no solution, other than this:
Rev. 12:
[10] And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Messiah: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night.
[11] And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.
[12] Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time.
Yes, Ted. As far as I know, the “Five Eyes” (US, UK, Canada, Australia, NZ) sharing intelligence info. is simply a way for the powers that be in ALL those countries to, essentially, spy on their own citizens, and those of any country, without domestic political repercussions.
Judge Napolitano has said, more than once, essentially, that we now have a fully-blown police state. Of course, he’s not a judge anymore, just a news commentator, so he can’t actually DO anything about it. What’s more, every time Americans hear about how Orwellian things have gotten, they just become more and more desensitized to the fact. The message is,
“Big Brother is here, and in control. Big Brother cannot be stopped. Be still, and love Big Brother.”
So, now what, Ted?
When the USG announces that it’s going to fight a “war on terror”, you know, by such politically popular methods as monitoring suspected terrorists (especially through physical and electronic surveillance, without valid warrant), don’t be surprised when it (ab)uses those powers (which it granted to itself anyway) to target innocents, e.g. Jews.
In other words, institutions, like the MSM, and individuals, like political conservatives, who glorify the American security/intelligence apparatus really are, as Trump (himself a spook supporter) might say, “enemies of the People”.
That’s treason!