Gotcha, mate!

The Guardian just published a story documenting the role of British Intelligence in uncovering collusion between the Trump Campaign and Russian agents.

GCHQ, the British Intelligence agency, became aware of suspicious connections between figures connected to Trump and known or suspected Russian agents as early as 2015. This was not part of any operation that targeted Trump or his associates, but the by-product of authorized routine surveillance of Russian intelligence assets.

British Intelligence previously rebuked the Trump Administration’s spurious claims that they were the agency behind the “wiretapping” of Trump Tower. “They are utterly ridiculous and should be ignored,” a spokesperson for GCHQ said.

Former MI-6 chief Sir Richard Deerlove described Trump’s wiretapping claim as “simply deeply embarrassing for Trump and the administration”.

The Guardian describes how American Intelligence agencies were slow to pick up on the extensive nature of the connections between Trump associates and the Russians because, in part of US restrictions on surveilling US persons:

It looks like the [US] agencies were asleep. They [the European agencies] were saying: ‘There are contacts going on between people close to Mr Trump and people we believe are Russian intelligence agents. You should be wary of this. The message was: ‘Watch out. There’s something not right here.’”

The investigation picked up considerable steam in October, just before the election after the FISA court granted permission for specific surveillance. Last Month, FBI Director James Comey confirmed that the FBI is conducting an extensive investigation into russian election interference and into possible collusion between Trump associates and agents of the Russian government.

And according to The Guardian, the investigation is bearing significant fruit:

One source suggested the official investigation was making progress. “They now have specific concrete and corroborative evidence of collusion,” the source said. “This is between people in the Trump campaign and agents of [Russian] influence relating to the use of hacked material.”

Wow.

If this is confirmed it would obviously blast a significant hole in the so-called President’s carefully constructed fantasy world where he is the victim of malignant forces surrounding him. It would also confirm the most shocking betrayal of America in perhaps ever.

And it would likely mark the end of the Trump Era in American politics.

Groovy, baby.

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