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Its curious that the GCHQ statement doesn't actually contradict Trump. Trump claims he was wiretapped before the election, but GCHQ have denied spying on him wh
by paulajohnson 10y ago
Its curious that the GCHQ statement doesn't actually contradict Trump. Trump claims he was wiretapped before the election, but GCHQ have denied spying on him when he was president-elect, i.e. after the election.
- chenelson 10y agoGreat point. Logically, all was denied is 5-eyes not under FISA.
- ealexhudson 10y agoTrump's tweet was, "Just found out that Obama had my 'wires tapped' in Trump Tower just before the victory." "just before" reads to me as the starting point in his accusation, not the ending point?
- mcintyre1994 10y agoI wouldn't try to read anything logical or coherent into that tweet, Sean Spicer has been trying to walk it back and say it's just about surveillance in general and wasn't specifically about Obama.
- jacques_chester 10y agoUnlike some European powers, I suspect that Her Majesty's Government has some institutional awareness that interfering in US politics can go awry.
- 7952 10y agoAll it really says is that they were not asked to perform wiretapping by Obama. They could still have been collecting data as part of their normal duties.