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watoos

(7,142 posts)
Thu Apr 11, 2019, 08:26 AM Apr 2019

5 Eyes Spy Program

Not much discussion about 5 Eyes. A coalition of countries; U.S. Australia, Canada, New Zealand and Britain. It is also assumed that Japan and Germany and France are in on the arrangement. These countries have agreed to share confidential information that they pick up in surveillance. A lot of the surveillance was to combat China but increasingly the surveillance was used to listen in on Russia.

These countries were listening in on Russian communications and ended up listening in on Americans talking to Russians. I'm talking about the Trump administration. How much of our intelligence on the Trump crime family came from 5 Eyes listening in on Russia? I just thought this was pertinent now since our new A.G. is accusing our spy agencies of spying on Trump. Maybe we should have that discussion about why there was a counterintelligence investigation going on? Bring it on.

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5 Eyes Spy Program (Original Post) watoos Apr 2019 OP
the intel may not have come through spying on Russia DetroitLegalBeagle Apr 2019 #1

DetroitLegalBeagle

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1. the intel may not have come through spying on Russia
Thu Apr 11, 2019, 08:40 AM
Apr 2019

There is an equal or greater chance it came direct from a 5 Eyes country. 5 eyes is known for spying on each others citizens and sharing the information to that citizens country in order to circumvent laws on domestic surveillance.

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