https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/gchq-chief-resigns-catholic-priest-paedophile-robert-hannigan-spy-agency-a8794161.html
pedophile priest reference given as the "official" reason, but that's likely not cricket
don't forget these tidbits from the article you linked…
In late August and September Brennan gave a series of classified briefings to the Gang of Eight, the top-ranking Democratic and Republican leaders in the House and Senate. He told them the agency had evidence the Kremlin might be trying to help Trump to win the presidency, the New York Times reported.
One person familiar with the matter said Brennan did not reveal sources but made reference to the fact that America’s intelligence allies had provided information. Trump subsequently learned of GCHQ’s role, the person said.
The person described US intelligence as being “very late to the game”. The FBI’s director, James Comey, altered his position after the election and Trump’s victory, becoming “more affirmative” and with a “higher level of concern”.
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GCHQ first became aware in late 2015 of suspicious “interactions” between figures connected to Trump and known or suspected Russian agents, a source close to UK intelligence said. This intelligence was passed to the US as part of a routine exchange of information, they added.
Over the next six months, until summer 2016, a number of western agencies shared further information on contacts between Trump’s inner circle and Russians, sources said.
The European countries that passed on electronic intelligence – known as sigint – included Germany, Estonia and Poland. Australia, a member of the “Five Eyes” spying alliance that also includes the US, UK, Canada and New Zealand, also relayed material, one source said.Another source suggested the Dutch and the French spy agency, the General Directorate for External Security or DGSE, were contributors.
https://jimmysllama.com/2018/02/27/10975/
After the FBI essentially orchestrated the Stratfor hack through their informant Hector Xavier Monsegur (“Sabu”) and hackers breached, pilfered, and wiped the company’s servers clean, alleged AntiSec member Jeremy Hammond not only continued hacking systems for months, he unwittingly spied on other countries on the behalf of the U.S. government. According to the Daily Dot, Hammond breached (or attempted to) databases containing the “login credentials, financial details, and private emails of foreign citizens” in over thirty different countries and every mark he hit was handed to him by Sabu. During his sentencing Hammond was prevented from publicly naming these foreign targets but shortly after his court appearance Jacob Applebaum posted a link to the un-redacted list and tweeted, “I have now seen the un-redacted list of targets that #Hammond was asked to hack by the FBI. Holy fucking shit.”
Holy effing shiz is right. The un-redacted list and chat logs later released both show that Sabu encouraged Hammond and others to attack the Governor of Puerto Rico, the Internal Affairs Division of the Military Police of Brazil, the Official Website of the Crown Prince of Kuwait, the Tax Department of Turkey, and the Iranian Academic Center for Education and Cultural Research. Other foreign targets included Syria, Colombia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Iraq and U.S. allies Australia and the U.K. “What the United States could not accomplish legally, it used Sabu, and by extension, me and my co-defendants, to accomplish illegally,” wrote Hammond in August, 2013.
Hammond was arrested on March 5, 2012, just seven days after WikiLeaks released the Stratfor emails, and charged with computer hacking conspiracy, computer hacking, and conspiracy to commit access device fraud. All of the charges stemmed from the Stratfor hack that had taken place months prior and Hammond questioned why the FBI had introduced himself and others to “Hyrriiya,” the hacker who had originally found Stratfor’s vulnerability, in the first place. More importantly, Hammond asked, “Why was the United States using us to infiltrate the private networks of foreign governments?” and “What are they doing with the information we stole?”
Although no one really knows what the U.S. government did with the information they stole, it’s interesting to note that some of the FBI agents who were directly involved with the Sabu operation went on to work at private cybersecurity firms that have incredible ties to both the U.S. and U.K. intelligence community. Furthermore, it appears that these agents used Sabu, Hammond and others as bait to catch a much bigger fish: Julian Assange.
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BlueVoyant is headed up by former Chief Operating Officer of Morgan Stanley, Jim Rosenthal, along with Admiral Michael Mullen and Tom Glocer both of whom I mentioned earlier. The remainder of BlueVoyant’s who’s who list reads like something out of spy novel. There’s Dennis Ennis, the NSA’s former Head of Threat Intelligence, Gad Goldstein, a former Major General Equivalent of Shin Bet, and Ron Feler, former Deputy Commander of IDF’s Cyber Intelligence Unit, 8200. Let’s not forget Peter Mandelson, the UK’s former First Minister and Dave Johnston, a former GCHQ Division Head. And then there’s the former Director of the British intelligence agency GCHQ, Robert Hannigan, who currently chairs BlueVoyant’s European Advisory Board.
According to WikiLeaks, Robert Hannigan was in charge of dealing with Julian Assange’s case for the UK Foreign Office (FCO) before his big promotion to the GCHQ. As one Twitter account put it, “Shit rises to the top” and I’d be hard-pressed to disagree. Hannigan joined the FCO on March 29, 2010, and it was shortly after Assange entered the Ecuadorian embassy in 2012 that Hannigan and the FCO thought it might be a good idea to storm it and seize him.
The FCO is also the same office that refuses to confirm or deny that they have a U.S. extradition order for Assange and recently stated that, “The Government of Ecuador recently requested diplomatic status for Mr Assange here in the UK.
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Hannigan’s name might also sound familiar to you because The Guardian reported that he “passed material in summer 2016 to the CIA chief, John Brennan” leading the CIA to use the intelligence to launch an investigation into then presidential candidate Donald Trump. And no, this isn’t terribly surprising since it has long been suspected that the GCHQ helped facilitate spying on Trump and his team as a means to circumvent U.S. surveillance laws—but yes, it’s the Guardian so take it with a grain of salt. Interestingly, Hannigan abruptly resigned as GCHQ director three days after Trump’s inauguration.
So the Limey went on to private practice ala Orbis, Hakluyt, etc…
another llama take
https://jimmysllama.com/2018/03/07/11005/
By mid-September, 2016, WikiLeaks asked, “Why is the FBI/DOJ leaking sealed court records on WikiLeaks reframed to help Clinton’s bogus Russian narrative?” to which Cameron responded over a month later that he had received the leaked documents back in 2014, not in 2016 and long before the Assange-Russian narrative existed. So like I asked previously, why in the world did Cameron wait until exactly a month before the U.S. election to publish this absurd article about WikiLeaks? If anyone was sitting on documents and looking to sway the election it appears to have been Dell Cameron—possibly with the help of the FBI.
One of the most fantastical parts of this story involving the Stratfor and Syrian hacks, Wikileaks, the FBI, and Sabu is that it was the FBI, under the administration of Obama and while Hillary Clinton was Secretary of State, who not only allowed but supervised email leaks to WikiLeaks. Extraordinary.