By Aaron Miller-
Ex president Barack Obama used a British intelligence organisation to spy on Donald Trump’s campaign, a judicial analyst has said.
Fox News judicial analyst, Judge Andrew Napolitano has alleged that former President Obama used a British intelligence organization to spy on the Trump campaign. Judge Napolitano made the explosive claim on Fox and Friends, stating that Obama employed the Brits to avoid any evidential trail that would trace the source of the spying back to him.
Judge Napolitano said:
“Three intelligence sources have informed Fox News that President Obama went outside the chain of command,” Napolitano said. “He didn’t use the NSA, he didn’t use the CIA, he didn’t use the FBI, and he didn’t use the Department of Justice.”
Instead, Napolitano said, Obama used GCHQ, a British intelligence and security organization that has 24-7 access to the NSA database.
“There’s no American fingerprints on this,” Napolitano said. “What happened to the guy who ordered this? Resigned three days after Donald Trump was inaugurated.”
The claim provides some explanation to claims made by Donald Trump that he was wire tapped by Barack Obama, although the U.S president made no reference to the intelligent sources cited by judge Napolitano, neither did Trump provide any evidence to back up his claim.
There have been quite suggestions that Trump may not have wanted to openly give credence to intelligent sources, given the president’s own previous discrediting of intelligent sources that had claimed Russia used hacking devices to interfere with the U.S elections.
The thing is that Judge Napolitano has not himself given proper evidence to support his claim, but would be expected to have some hidden evidence to make such an explosive claim. The news has not been widely publicised yet, probably because many news outlets are waiting for concrete evidence to support it.
Robert Hannigan, the director of GCHQ, resigned from his job as head of three British intelligence agencies on January 23. The British media at the time expressed shock that the intel boss had quit after just two years. GCHQ have cited ”personal reasons” for Hannigan leaving his post for “personal reasons” and had not been “sacked or subject to disciplinary proceedings.”
However, without stating what those personal reasons were, it leaves it open to wide speculation which may well include the allegation being made. President Trump has been widely criticised for accusing Obama through a series of tweets, with some legal commentators saying that the allegation was ”impeachable” if the U.S president was making accusations of that magnitude that was without foundation. It has been equally stated that had Obama committed the offence made, it would have been an impeachable offence.