Trump claims that the Obama administration bugged Trump Tower before the election. <\/p>\n
Sound nutty? <\/p>\n
Perhaps but former Attorney General Michael Mukasey said that Trump isprobably rightthat Trump Tower was bugged (by the Justice Department, not Obama personally). <\/p>\n
And chief Fox News Washington correspondent James Rosen who Obamas Attorney General Eric Holder ordered be bugged likemany other reportersfor well over a decade said he thought Trump might be right: <\/p>\n
Binney is the NSA executive whocreatedthe agencys mass surveillance program for digital information, who served as theseniortechnical director within the agency, who managedsix thousandNSA employees. <\/p>\n
He was a 36-year NSA veteran widely regarded as a legend within the agency and the NSAsbest-everanalyst and code-breaker. <\/p>\n
Binney also mapped out the Soviet command-and-control structure before anyone else knew how, and so predicted Soviet invasions before they happened (in the 1970s, he decrypted the Soviet Unions command system, which provided the US and its allies with real-time surveillance of all Soviet troop movements and Russian atomic weapons). <\/p>\n
Binney told Washingtons Blog: <\/p>\n
NSA has all the data through the Upstream programs (Fairview\/Stormbrew\/Blarney) [background] and backed up by second and some third party country collection. <\/p>\n
Plus the FBI and CIA plus others, as of the last month of the Obama administration, have direct access to all the NSA collection (metadata and content on phones,email and banking\/credit cards etc.) with no attempt at oversight by anybody [background]. This is all done under Executive Order 12333 [the order whichallows unlimited spyingno matter what intelligence officials claim] . <\/p>\n
FBI would only ask for a warrant if they wanted to be able to take it into court at some point given they have something meaningful as evidence. This is clearly true given the fact the President Trumps phone conversations with other country leaders were leaked to the mainstream media. <\/p>\n
In other words, Binney is saying that Trumps phoneswerebugged by the NSA without a warrant remember, top NSA whistleblowers have previously explained that the NSA is spying onvirtuallyallof the digital communications of Americans. and the NSA shared the raw data with the CIA, FBI and other agencies. <\/p>\n
If the FBI obtained a warrant to tap Trumps phone, it was a parallel construction to launder improperly-gained evidence through acceptable channels. <\/p>\n
As weve previouslyexplained: <\/p>\n
The government islaundering information gained through mass surveillancethrough other agencies, with an agreement that the agencies willrecreate the evidence in a parallel construction so they dont have to admit that the evidence came from unconstitutional spying. This data laundering is gettingworseandworse. <\/p>\n
So does it mean that the NSA spying on Trump Tower actually turned up some dirt? <\/p>\n
Maybe <\/p>\n
But history shows that mass surveillance has long beenused toblackmail opponents includinghigh-level officials. Andsee this. <\/p>\n
And the former NSA directoradmittedthat the mass surveillance is apower grab. <\/p>\n
So we wont know until the intelligence agencies actually show their cards andrevealwhat evidence theyve gathered. <\/p>\n
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