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Originally Posted by Damien
We already know the FBI had applied for warrants back in October to tap the phones of Trump's associates, probably Trump himself, over the Russia thing. That's how the intelligence services knew of the calls from the Flynn. Trump is making a specific allegation that Obama ordered it. That would be against the law, it's the justice wing of the government that can seek and authorise wiretaps of America citizens.
Bugging the phones of international citizens is different as they don't have the same protections under American law. It's why the NSA found it more difficult to spy on Americans and looked to GCHQ for help. That's why it's not a simple progression from the Government spying on foreign citizens to spying on Trump.
It's a very big accusation to say Obama ordered the bugging of Trump. Trump needs to at least give enough information to allow an investigation, he has declined to do so thus far.
This wikileaks release is, on first inspection (I haven't read the entire dump), rather mundane. CIA have lists of zero-day exploits of software, they continue to develop ways of hacking into the internet of things and phones, they can bypass encryption by getting to the data before it's encrypted if they can compromise the device. Nothing you wouldn't expect. Intelligence services look to exploit security vulnerabilities....
Seriously governments looking to buy zero-day attacks is nothing new. We already knew they are on the market for them.
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An interesting and informative post.
Do you have any inkling of how the tapping allegations might conclude? Will Trump just let it all die down? Will Obama sue him?