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Anonymous ID: 09cfb0 Nov. 5, 2018, 2:02 p.m. No.3744765   🗄️.is 🔗kun

FISA and UK spying on POTUS: UK cleaning House prior to "declassify"?

UK intel agencies likely key ppl:

Robert Hannigan: Director GCHQ - resigned 3 days after inauguration on January 23,2017; "officially" left April 7, 2017

(See meme for additional info)

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-38723040

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/mar/20/gchq-appoints-mi5-jeremy-fleming-as-director

 

Sir Mark Lyall Grant: National Security Advisor & Hannigan's boss ; resigned April 12, 2017

(was also Permanent Representative for UK to United Nations)

  • Oversees all the intel agencies & controls their funds.

  • Replaced by Sir Mark Sedwill April 13, 2017

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Lyall_Grant

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Security_Adviser_(United_Kingdom)

 

Jeremy Heywood; Cabinet Secretary & Head of Civil Service; resigned October 2018, Died November 4, 2018.

  • Most powerful person in the country of whom most people had never heard.

  • Closely associated with ex-PMs Cameron & Blair.

  • Inside Whitehall… far from invisible. He was more invincible, and certainly controversial.

  • Not a fan of freedom of information; very hostile to the disclosures.

  • Replaced by Sir Mark Sedwill October 31, 2018.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/nov/04/lord-heywood-of-whitehall-obituary

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/statement-on-sir-jeremy-heywood

 

Sir Mark Sedwill becomes National Security Advisor and Head of Civil Service.

  • 2014 … allegations… concerning the possible existence of a paedophile ring at Westminster, Sir Mark Sedwill …insisted that all public bodies – including political parties – should sweep their documents for evidence of a conspiracy of silence.

  • Sedwill later admitted that 114 potentially relevant files relating to the abuse of children by people in public life were missing and had probably been shredded (prior to his time in the position- see DrSallyBaker link).

  • Sir Mark Sedwill, National Security Advisor, speaks from both civilian and military perspectives at the RUSI Land Warfare Conference 2018 on the evolving outputs demanded of land forces and novel approaches to achieving them in the Twenty-First Century, ~ 23minutes.

(youtube link below but interference from ~ 10 minutes when he starts talking about threats - don't know how to fix it)

  • Says teamwork is important.

https://www.gov.uk/government/people/mark-sedwill

https://www.seh.ox.ac.uk/news/alumnus-sir-mark-sedwill-appointed-head-of-uk-civil-service

http://www.drsallybaker.com/tag/sir-mark-sedwill/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=538Qp6XbvFU

https://rusi.org/annual-conference/rusi-land-warfare-conference/2018-presentations

https://www.civilserviceworld.com/articles/news/sedwill-prioritises-impact-and-teamwork-first-message-permanent-cab-sec

 

PS. If you doubt the significance of the UK Civil Service check out the old BBC comedy "Yes, Minister" - suspect there is a lot of truth in it! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yes_Minister (U.S. "SES" ppl trying to duplicate the power?)