Obama administration directed foreign allies to target Trump, associates: report

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A new report released on Tuesday has revealed that under the Obama administration, the United States Intelligence Community (IC) mobilized foreign agencies long before the summer of 2016 to target Trump, before the FBI began its “Crossfire Hurricane” investigation into debunked Trump campaign collusion with Russia.

In a joint report by Michael Shellenberger, Matt Taibbi, and Alex Gutentag, sources close to a House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HSPCI) investigation revealed that the US IC asked the “Five Eyes,” which constitutes the nations of the US, UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, to surveil and share intelligence gathered on Trump associates with US agencies.

Former President Obama’s CIA Director John Brennan reportedly identified 26 Trump associates for the nations to target, and a source confirmed that the IC “identified [them] as people to ‘bump,’ or make contact with or manipulate. They were targets of our own IC and law enforcement — targets for collection and misinformation.”

Sources said that details on the FBI’s investigation of Trump and raw intelligence from the IC’s surveillance of the Trump campaign were contained in a 10-inch binder, which Trump ordered to be declassified at the end of his term.

It was previously reported that the British Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) was considered the “primary whistleblower” in the Trump-Russia collusion investigation.

Sources instead say that the US IC asked its foreign allies to target these 26 members of Trump’s team.

“They were making contacts and bumping Trump people going back to March 2016,” a source close to the investigation told Public and Racket. “They were sending people around the UK, Australia, Italy — the Mossad in Italy. The MI6 was working at an intelligence school they had set up.”

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