Newly surfaced text messages between Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe and his counterpart at MI-5, the UK's domestic security service, have cast new light on Britain's role in the FBI's 2016 'Russiagate' investigation, according to The Guardian.
Two of the most senior intelligence officials in the US and UK privately shared concerns about "Our strange situation" as the FBI launched its 2016 investigation into whether Donald Trump's campaign was colluding with Russia, the Guardian has learned.
Text messages between Andrew McCabe, the deputy director of the FBI at the time, and Jeremy Fleming, his then counterpart at MI5, now the head of GCHQ, also reveal their mutual surprise at the result of the EU referendum, which some US officials regarded as a "Wake-up call", according to a person familiar with the matter.
In 2017, The Guardian reported that Britain's spy agencies had played a key role in alerting their American counterparts of communications between members of the Trump campaign and "Suspected Russian agents," which was passed along to the US in what was characterized as a "Routine exchange of information."
"For over a year, people have asked me to declassify. What I've done is declassified everything," said Trump, adding "He can look and I hope he looks at the UK and I hope he looks at Australia and I hope he looks at Ukraine."
Much of "Operation Crossfire Hurricane" - the FBI's official investigation into the Trump campaign - occurred on UK soil, which is perhaps why the New York Times reported last September that the UK begged Trump not to declassify 'Russiagate' documents 'without redaction.
We wonder what else McCabe's texts with his MI-5 counterpart will reveal?
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-07-31/secret-mccabe-texts-mi-5-counterpart-begin-trickle-out-spotlighting-uks-early-role
Two of the most senior intelligence officials in the US and UK privately shared concerns about "Our strange situation" as the FBI launched its 2016 investigation into whether Donald Trump's campaign was colluding with Russia, the Guardian has learned.
Text messages between Andrew McCabe, the deputy director of the FBI at the time, and Jeremy Fleming, his then counterpart at MI5, now the head of GCHQ, also reveal their mutual surprise at the result of the EU referendum, which some US officials regarded as a "Wake-up call", according to a person familiar with the matter.
In 2017, The Guardian reported that Britain's spy agencies had played a key role in alerting their American counterparts of communications between members of the Trump campaign and "Suspected Russian agents," which was passed along to the US in what was characterized as a "Routine exchange of information."
"For over a year, people have asked me to declassify. What I've done is declassified everything," said Trump, adding "He can look and I hope he looks at the UK and I hope he looks at Australia and I hope he looks at Ukraine."
Much of "Operation Crossfire Hurricane" - the FBI's official investigation into the Trump campaign - occurred on UK soil, which is perhaps why the New York Times reported last September that the UK begged Trump not to declassify 'Russiagate' documents 'without redaction.
We wonder what else McCabe's texts with his MI-5 counterpart will reveal?
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-07-31/secret-mccabe-texts-mi-5-counterpart-begin-trickle-out-spotlighting-uks-early-role
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