04-04-2017, 07:27 AM
Paul Rigby Wrote:[quote=Paul Rigby]
On the institutional level, confirmation that US investigatory and intel outfits resorted to GCHQ to, shall we say, supplement collection related to US citizens and *ahem* circumvent US laws would lead to demands for that bane of all spook prerogatives, oversight and perhaps a committee to review requests for intel exchange between the US and GCHQ before they happened (I recall reading that currently the NSA can reach into Five Eyes servers and pull out whatever it wants whenever it wants; it would be fun to find out in open testimony if that actually happens!).
The writer recalls well. ONLY the USA, in fact, can reach its soiled hand into the entire collection reservoir/archive of the Five Eyes and pull out anything and everything. Every other member of the five can only access stated code-worded material of the ECHELON system and thus suffer from far more restricted access. This was all made public over a decade ago by New Zealand investigative journalist, Nicky Hager, in his book Secret Power about New Zealand's involvement and role in the Five Eyes. Hager received his information from disgruntled members of New Zealand's Government Communications Security Bureau - which is their eye-closing name for the Kiwi NSA.
Quote:On the political level, it would be hard to escape the imputation that Great Britain was conducting politically-motivated collection/querying/handover of intel concerning disfavored US politicians and officials, and that the English bulldog was INTERFERING IN AMERICA'S SACRED ELECTIONS, you know, like a certain country, name begins with R ends with A led by a guy name begins with P ends with N is allegedly doing.
I note the following paragraph from your post No. 546 above wherein the perennial penned slyness of the British civil servant saw the following uttered in defence of GCHQ:
'"We've made clear to the administration that these claims are ridiculous and they should be ignored and we've received assurances that these allegations will not be repeated," a Downing Street spokesman told reporters.'
"The claims are ridiculous...."
That's what the striped trousered masters of British double-speak call a "non denial denial."
The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.
Carl Jung - Aion (1951). CW 9, Part II: P.14