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Former NSC official: UK intelligence helped Obama team on collusion probe

2020-03-16

[World Tribune] A top official in British intelligence intimated that the UK assisted in the Obama administration’s investigation into alleged Trump-Russia collusion during the 2016 election, former Trump administration deputy national security adviser K.T. McFarland said.

McFarland, who served as national security adviser Michael Flynn’s deputy for the first four months of the Trump administration, told Just the News that as Trump was preparing to take office in January 2017 she was contacted by British Deputy National Security Adviser Patrick "Paddy" McGuinness.

The contact occurred around same time the bogus Christopher Steele dossier was leaked to the U.S. media, the Just the News report noted.

McGuinness said that the British and American intelligence communities work so closely together that "it’s often difficult to see where one ends and the other begins," McFarland recalled during an interview with the John Solomon Reports podcast.

At the time McFarland said she took the comment to be an obvious reassurance of the famously close relationship between U.S. and UK intelligence services. But "in retrospect, I think it was a signal that their former agent was working very closely with our intelligence agencies," McFarland now says.

"My conclusion was that they had been working closely with the intelligence officials in the Obama administration," McFarland said.

Late last month, in an interview with Just the News, Flynn defense attorney Sidney Powell confirmed that McFarland was contacted by McGuinness. Powell said that Flynn had received a parallel communique from Britain’s national security adviser which called into question Steele’s credibility within British intelligence circles.

Posted by:Besoeker

#7 /\ Yes, you noticed the Robert Hannigan departure as well. I'm sure his departure included a burgeoning folder of non-disclosure agreements followed by a hefty golden parachute.

Posted by: Besoeker 2020-03-16 18:03

#6 Any I the only one that points out overt treason? Working with another nation to overthrow a branch of our government. Pretty obvious if you think about it.

Flashing back to when Steele disappeared before we knew his name. Then there was GCHQ chief Robert Hannigan quitting like a bad case of exposed herpes.

Put his ass on the same plane to Gitmo.

Posted by: Woodrow 2020-03-16 17:59

#5 ^ Felony? Imprisonment, fine or both?

Posted by: Lex 2020-03-16 09:28

#4 Appears to be a circumvention or work-around of EO-12333, the prohibition regarding intelligence collection targeted at US citizens.

Posted by: Besoeker 2020-03-16 08:58

#3 We are overdue to punish the shit out of UK and Oz intelligence for their involvement in this. IV said it before, gouge out the Five Eyes. For starters we should tell MI6 no coordination until you hand Steele over to the US for interrogation and subsequent treatment outside of Constitutional norms. Just cut Oz off. They don't contribute anything worthwhile anyway.

Posted by: M. Murcek 2020-03-16 08:45

#2 What did Zero know and when did he know it?

John Durham, batter up

Posted by: Lex 2020-03-16 08:23

#1 "it’s often difficult to see where one ends and the other begins,"

Thank you Paddy. We might have never known. Steele's old office within near walking distance of Vauxhall Cross, I'm sure no one gave it a second thought.

Posted by: Besoeker 2020-03-16 08:19

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