US makes formal apology to Britain after White House accuses GCHQ of wiretapping Trump Tower

[Fast Walker 52]

Source: Telegraph

The US has made a formal apology to Britain after the White House accused GCHQ of helping Barack Obama spy on Donald Trump in the White House.

Sean Spicer, Mr Trump's press secretary, repeated a claim on Thursday evening – initially made by an analyst on Fox News - that GCHQ was used by Mr Obama to spy on Trump Tower in the lead-up to last November's election.

The comments prompted a furious response from GCHQ, which in a break from normal practice issued a public statement: "Recent allegations made by media commentator Judge Andrew Napolitano about GCHQ being asked to conduct 'wiretapping' against the then president-elect are nonsense. They are utterly ridiculous and should be ignored."

Intelligence sources told The Telegraph that both Mr Spicer and General McMaster, the US National Security Adviser, have apologised over the claims. "The apology came direct from them," a source said.

Read more: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/03/17/us-makes-formal-apology-britain-white-house-accuses-gchq-wiretapping/

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Once again-- great job, conservatives

[fountainofyouth]

1. He never learns that there are consequences to making shit up n/t

[harun]

17. He's never had a job before where lying and making shit up was a bad thing. Now

not so much.

[cstanleytech]

19. Thats not the issue, its that he doesnt care about consequences because he has never had to suffer

from them from his decisions as he always plays the victim even when most of the time he is the perp and the victims are the one he either gropes or screws over out of money he owes.

[fountainofyouth]

31. All true

It helps when you can convince shady foreign oligarchs to bankroll a lavish lifestyle for you.

[Botany]

2. Damn and i thought Obama had hired Sean Connery to move against Trump

n/t

[Fast Walker 52]

3. LOL! That would've been awesome

[Botany]

6. If the O-man was hiring British secret agents I wanted him to bring the best

Bring on Connery

no Roger Moores, Pierce Borsans, and all the other lesser bonds.

[Mc Mike]

5. Moved on him like a bitch. nt

[George II]

9. trump wanted Sean Connery in his administration, all he got was Sean Spicer!

[Botany]

11. Trump couldn't even get George Lazenby

n/t

[msanthrope]

13. Hey...Lazenby wasn't bad in that kilt. nt

[MgtPA]

16. Christopher Foyle FTW

[Mc Mike]

4. Sorry!

[riversedge]

7. I think a public apology is in order!! And, while we are on this, a public apology form POTUS is in

order from Trump for making that vile claim again pres. Obama.

[George II]

8. Where's the formal apology to President Obama for calling him a "sick guy"?

[mahatmakanejeeves]

10. Who made the apology? In which office was the apology drafted?

I already know where it did not originate.

[ginnyinWI]

18. it's in the article--

here: "Intelligence sources told The Telegraph that both Mr Spicer and General McMaster, the US National Security Adviser, have apologised over the claims. "The apology came direct from them," a source said.

General McMaster contacted Sir Mark Lyall Grant, the Prime Minister's National Security adviser, to apologise for the comments. Mr Spicer conveyed his apology through Sir Kim Darroch, Britain's US ambassador."

[Javaman]

12. the orange menace won't be happy until he pisses off every nation in the world except russia. nt

[Blue_Tires]

14. So Trump himself didn't apologize

he did it though back channels using lackeys as his emissaries...

[dalton99a]

24. I'm sure they can smell the sincerity

[lagomorph777]

15. Malcolm Nance calls this behavior "buggy."

When the target starts seeing that people know what he's been up to, he starts desperately trying to figure out how it got out. So he rips out the walls looking for bugs, has possible moles killed (a la Stone, Churykin, and Krivov), and in Trump's case, accusing anybody and everybody of "tapping" him.

[Fast Walker 52]

20. I think Trump's been buggy for quite a while and the stress of the presidency is not helping

[lagomorph777]

25. Yup - he is clearly decompensating more each day.

I wonder if Putin planned for that when he installed Trump? My guess is, yes.

[Fast Walker 52]

30. I saw one article where Putin initially had high expectations for using President Trump and then

later realized he was too unpredictable. But even Trump just sowing chaos and nationalism as he is doing now, helps Putin.

[sinkingfeeling]

21. Where's the apology to Obama?

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22. I doubt that will EVER happen, but of course he is owed one

[Grins]

23. Napolitano has been a well-paid in-house whore at Fox for a long, long time.

Napolitano has been a well-paid in-house whore at Fox for a long, long time. He makes just enough of an allegation without any substantiation and gets away with it. I saw him make this allegation and was immediately screaming "Bullshit!" at the TV.

[Blue_Tires]

26. WHERE IS THE APOLOGY TO OBAMA YOU FUCKING COWARDS?

[lanlady]

27. Where's the apology to Obama, our FBI professionals, and our nation's intelligence community?

Un-bloody believable.

[truthisfreedom]

28. Trump never apologizes for ANYTHING. His surrogates in an emergency, but this is too politically

expedient to lose momentum on. Trump's going to ride it out for all it's worth.

[Fast Walker 52]

29. Now Trump's blaming it on FoxNews. These people are unbelievably shameless assholes

[Sunlei]

32. Merkel stood on TV earlier & watched trump evade press question about HIS international incident.

She also had to "school him" about how Germany works trade through EU management and what the EU is. On live TV.