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relating to Umbrage…
https://www.mintpressnews.com/wikileaks-cia-false-flag-attack-likely-used-to-plant-evidence-for-trump-tower-wiretap/225699/
Like many of the scandals and controversies involving President Trump, it all started with a tweet. Last Saturday, Trump made a daring accusation against his predecessor Barack Obama, accusing Obama of wiretapping his campaign headquarters in Trump Tower in the months prior to the contentious 2016 election. While the former president and his staffers denied the allegations, others focused instead on their feasibility, asking – even if Obama wanted to wiretap Trump, could he?
Among those arguing that the president does not have the authority to tap a private citizen was Ben Rhodes, a former senior adviser to Obama and former deputy National Security Advisor. Rhodes tweeted: “No President can order a wiretap. Those restrictions were put in place to protect citizens from people like you.”
However, Rhodes’ argument was quickly proven wrong, as Chapter 36 of Title 50 of the U.S. Code on War and National Defense reads: “Notwithstanding any other law, the President, through the Attorney General, may authorize electronic surveillance without a court order under this sub-chapter to acquire foreign intelligence information for periods of up to one year […]”
Obama’s denial of ordering the tap did not rule out the existence of wiretaps already in place at Trump during in the months prior to the election. It may be possible that an intelligence agency may have ordered the tap, as many intelligence community surveillance practices are simply unknown. As the Washington Post noted, these “practices remain so secret, even from members of Congress, that there is no opportunity for our democracy to change them.”
Senator Ben Sasse (R-NE) noted that Trump’s accusations suggest two possible scenarios. If there were wiretaps of Trump’s organization or campaign, then it was either with FISA [U.S. Foreign Intelligence Services Court] court authorization or without such authorization. If without, the president should explain what sort of wiretap it was and how he knows this. It is possible that he was illegally tapped. On the other hand, if it was with a legal FISA court order, then an application for surveillance exists that the court found credible.
///The most recent revelations from Wikileaks regarding the true extent of the CIA’s covert hacking abilities have created even greater reason to suspect that the CIA was involved in the approval of the October FISA surveillance request targeting Trump’s campaign headquarters. As MintPress previously reported, Wikileaks’ latest release exposed the CIA’s UMBRAGE program – which allows the CIA to hide the digital signatures left behind when it conducts cyberattacks, replacing them with signatures that can be attributed to other entities, including state actors.
Wikileaks explicitly mentioned the Russian Federation as one of the governments whose signature had been stolen by the UMBRAGE program, meaning the CIA could make any of its cyberattacks or malware programs appear to be originating from Russia.
https://wikileaks.org/ciav7p1/index.html#PRESS
https://wikileaks.org/ciav7p1/cms/page_2621753.html