Going through Q posts, this one caught my eye so I did a little digging:
Mar 10 2018 12:47:35 (EST)
Do not focus on the call details.
We knew it would leak.
We knew certain areas of the WH were bugged.
We knew certain people would leak.
Focus - why AUS?
Primarily, WHY AUS?
Five Eyes
UKUSA Agreement
STONEGHOST Network
1973 Murphy Raids
Jeffrey Delisle
PINEGAP - NSA cover term is RAINFALL
Sound interesting yet?
Pine Gap is the commonly used name for an Australian Earth station approximately 18 kilometres (11 mi) south-west of the town of Alice Springs, Northern Territory in the centre of Australia which is operated by both Australia and the United States. Since 1988, it has been officially called the Joint Defence Facility Pine Gap (JDFPG); previously, it was known as Joint Defence Space Research Facility.[1]
Partly run by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) and U.S. National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), the station is a key contributor to the NSA's global interception effort, which included the ECHELON program.[2][3][4][5] The unclassified cover term for the NSA facility at Pine Gap is RAINFALL.[6]
The facility consists of a large computer complex with 14 radomes protecting antennas[7] and has over 800 employees.[8] A long-term NSA employee at Pine Gap, David Rosenberg, indicated that the chief of the facility at the time of his service was a CIA officer.[9]:p 45–46[10]
The location is strategically significant because it controls United States spy satellites as they pass over one-third of the globe which includes China, the Asian parts of Russia and the Middle East.[7] Central Australia was chosen because it was too remote for spy ships passing in international waters to intercept the signal.[9]:p xxi
https:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Eyes
https:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UKUSA_Agreement
https:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECHELON
https:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_Murphy_raids
https:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_Ghost
https:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Delisle
https:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pine_Gap