British agency GCHQ denies allegations of Trump surveillance with odd statement

GCHQ's response to the Napolitano story was oddly off-point.

Napolitano asserts that the NSA captured data, correspondence, and conversations throughout the campaign as part of its routine surveillance dragnet. As pertains to Trump, this material could not be accessed by the US IC without a warrant. However according to Napolitano, the Brits had free access to the same data. All of it. They could have pulled Trump data, and then provided it to US authorities without any US 'fingerprints" or warrant needed.

As far as I can tell, GCHQ does not deny any of that in anyway. They instead deny something which no one is accusing them of. Instead of denying accessing Trump records through the NSA, they deny 'wiretapping' Trump.

May be nothing to this at all. But it seems strange nonetheless.

I'm just as confused as to what benefit Obama would have derived from any of this. Could he have used data obtained that way?

I guess with someone as corrupt as Lynch running the DOJ, maybe he could have.

Here are the Napolitano and GCHQ statements:

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Napolitano:

"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,"

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GCHQ:

"Recent allegations made by media commentator Judge Andrew Napolitano about GCHQ being asked to conduct 'wire tapping' against the then President-elect are nonsense. They are utterly ridiculous and should be ignored," the spokesperson told CNBC.

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