In the United States, scandals related to the possible wiretapping of Donald Trump's campaign staff by US intelligence agencies have not subsided. “Claims that the Obama administration somehow used intelligence intelligence for political purposes are completely false,” President Obama's former national security adviser Susan Rice said on MSNBC on Tuesday.

It all started on March 4th. Donald Trump tweeted that President Barack Obama broke the law when intelligence agencies spied his campaign headquarters. Throughout the month, representatives of the FBI, the White House, the US Congress, political commentators and human rights activists have been speaking non-stop on this issue.

There are two problems: firstly, wiretapping must be formally authorized, and secondly, the names of American citizens under development, by law, should not be made public in the media or “leaked” to other intelligence services and government agencies of the country. Susan Rice is accused of involvement in this “leak” and of using her official position for political purposes.

"Help from a friend"?

All this fuss and internal squabbles among the US political elite, among other things, shed light on another interesting international agreement. In March, Andrew Napolitano, a former judge of the Supreme Court of New Jersey and a senior judicial analyst for the American television channel Fox News Channel, said that his sources in US intelligence spoke about the Obama administration's request to the British service GCHQ to wiretap Trump so that “there would be no American fingerprints on it.” fingers."

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The Government Communications Center (GCHQ), essentially Britain's signals intelligence and intelligence agency, denied the allegations in a rare public comment, saying it was all pointless nonsense and should be ignored. Napolitano was temporarily suspended from work, and White House press secretary Sean Spicer and US national security adviser Herbert McMaster apologized to the British authorities.

However, the issue of cooperation between American and British intelligence services in spying on citizens of allied countries has entered the agenda, and the work of intelligence services within the Five Eyes alliance is actively discussed in the American and British media to this day.

Long echo of the Cold War

Close cooperation between British and American intelligence services has been going on for many decades. Together with services from Australia, New Zealand and Canada, they form an intelligence alliance called the Five Eyes. An agreement on cooperation between US and British intelligence services and the exchange of intelligence data was reached back in 1940 by Churchill and Roosevelt. A formal bilateral agreement (UKUSA) was reached in 1946, later joined by Canada (1948), Australia and New Zealand (1956). A number of other countries (Norway, Denmark, West Germany) were also involved in the exchange of intelligence data, but had the status of “third parties” in this alliance. In 2009, France wanted to join the Five Eyes, but members of the alliance did not want to see it as a full member. There are also the “Nine Eyes” (5 mentioned countries + Norway, Denmark, Holland, France), “14 Eyes”, “41 Eyes” alliances, but all of them are not nearly as close in the exchange of information as the “Five Eyes” core.

The Five Eyes, after the end of World War II, focused on spying on the USSR, China and the Warsaw Pact countries. The Five Eyes was directly related to the creation of the now famous Echelon global tracking system. The exchange of information took place during the Vietnam War, the Falklands War, the Gulf War, and the operation in Libya to overthrow Gaddafi. After 9/11, the alliance focused on the war on global terror and global surveillance.

Edward Snowden's revelations revealed that the Five Eyes used highly publicized tracking systems such as PRISM, Xkeyscore, Tempora, MUSCULAR and STATEROOM.

Your own heat, but with someone else's hands

With the height of the war against terrorism, the growing mobility of their citizens, and the onslaught of information, the Five Eyes countries collaborated more and more closely with each other and worked not only against external opponents, but also looked for threats emanating from their own citizens.

Since 2007, the US National Security Agency (NSA) has been given the right to monitor and store information in its databases about UK citizens. Prior to this, the UK was against the creation of similar data sets in the United States, allowing only the storage of information about landline telephone numbers of its citizens. In 2005, the NSA discussed the possibility of collecting data on citizens of all countries of the Five Eyes alliance without notifying the allies.

In 2013, Edward Snowden also disclosed a number of documents containing details of payments received by the UK's GCHQ from the NSA. The British The Guardian, in its article “Government Communications Centre: In the Highly Secret World of Britain’s Largest Intelligence Service,” spoke in detail about the cooperation and hierarchy of relations between the two services.

According to Snowden, the whole point of the supra-national alliance is to bypass domestic laws and organize surveillance of its citizens by the intelligence services of allied countries in the Five Eyes alliance. Following the Snowden revelations, human rights activists have criticized the alliance since 2013, accusing it of provoking countries to “do the dirty work” of contracting out and spying on allied citizens. In Canada, judges were outraged that the country's intelligence services delegated surveillance of Canadian citizens to other states within the alliance.

In 1983, Canadian intelligence agencies spied on members of the British cabinet at the request of Margaret Thatcher. As it turns out over time, since the 1980s, Americans have been following Canadians, Canadians have been following Americans, Australians have been following New Zealanders, etc., etc. The work of the NSA and New Zealand was described in detail and revealingly by Nicky Hager in the article “The price of membership in the Five Eyes Club is mass espionage on friendly countries.” The European Union also expressed concern that members of the Five Eyes are sharing information about EU citizens with each other.

Behind last years there were many similar incidents. And although the British today categorically deny that they could have been involved in spying on Donald Trump’s campaign headquarters, “a residue remains.”

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    From lost in the vastness Pacific Ocean islands where there is not even running water, to an English intelligence base in the spirit of James Bond - these are five points on the world map where even the most curious travelers cannot penetrate.

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    Imagine that the world was struck by a colossal natural disaster: the planet's population was almost completely destroyed, infrastructure was destroyed, food sources were destroyed.

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    The storage facility was opened in February 2008 to create a stockpile of seeds in case of a global catastrophe.

    It contains 250 million seed samples from around the world that could be lost in the event of an accident, equipment failure, funding cutback or natural disaster.

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    Niihau, the smallest inhabited island in the Hawaiian archipelago, may seem like a tropical paradise: swaying palm trees, endangered species and virtually no tourists.

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    In 1863, Hawaiian King Kamehameha sold the island to the Robinson family of wealthy planters, and since 1915 access to outsiders has been closed.

    Life on the island is atypical: its approximately 130 permanent residents - native Hawaiians - do not pay for housing and do without pavements, telephones, sewers, running water and shops.

    They move on horses and bicycles, power supply is provided by solar panels, and groceries are brought in by barge from the neighboring island of Kauai.

    "Children from Ni'ihau canoe once a week to Kauai, where the school is located," explains Quora user Bennett McEwan.

    Since 1915, access to the island has been closed to outsiders.

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    In the United States, scandals related to the possible wiretapping of Donald Trump's campaign staff by US intelligence agencies have not subsided.

    “Claims that the Obama administration somehow used intelligence intelligence for political purposes are completely false,” President Obama's former national security adviser Susan Rice said on MSNBC on Tuesday.

    It all started on March 4th. Donald Trump tweeted that President Barack Obama broke the law when intelligence agencies spied his campaign. Throughout the month, representatives of the FBI, the White House, the US Congress, political commentators and human rights activists have been speaking non-stop on this issue.

    There are two problems: firstly, wiretapping must be formally authorized, and secondly, the names of American citizens under development, by law, should not be made public in the media or leaked to other intelligence services and government agencies of the country.

    Susan Rice is accused of involvement in this leak and of using her official position for political purposes.

    "Help from a friend"?

    All this fuss and internal squabbles among the US political elite, among other things, shed light on another interesting international agreement. In March, Andrew Napolitano, a former judge of the Supreme Court of New Jersey and a senior judicial analyst for the American television channel Fox News Channel, said that his sources in US intelligence spoke about the Obama administration's request to the British service GCHQ to wiretap Trump so that “there would be no American fingerprints on it.” fingers."

    Government Communications Center (GCHQ), essentially Britain's signals intelligence and intelligence agency, rejected the allegations in a rare public comment, saying they were all pointless nonsense and should be ignored. Napolitano was temporarily suspended from work, and White House press secretary Sean Spicer and US national security adviser Herbert McMaster apologized to the British authorities.

    Nevertheless, the issue of cooperation between American and British intelligence services in spying on citizens of allied countries is on the agenda, and the work of intelligence services within the Five Eyes alliance is actively discussed in the American and British media to this day.

    Long echo of the Cold War

    Close cooperation between British and American intelligence services has been going on for many decades. Together with services from Australia, New Zealand and Canada, they form an intelligence alliance called the Five Eyes.

    An agreement on cooperation between US and British intelligence services and the exchange of intelligence data was reached back in 1940 by Churchill and Roosevelt. In 1946, a formal bilateral agreement was reached (UKUSA), which was later joined by Canada (1948), Australia and New Zealand (1956). A number of other countries (Norway, Denmark, West Germany) were also involved in the exchange of intelligence data, but had the status of “third parties” in this alliance.

    In 2009, France wanted to join the Five Eyes, but members of the alliance did not want to see it as a full member. There are also the “Nine Eyes” (the five countries mentioned plus Norway, Denmark, Holland, France), “14 Eyes”, “41 Eyes” alliances, but all of them are not nearly as close in the exchange of information as the “Five Eyes” core.

    The Five Eyes, after the end of World War II, focused on spying on the USSR, China and the Warsaw Pact countries. The Five Eyes alliance was directly related to the creation of the now famous Echelon global tracking system. The exchange of information took place during the Vietnam War, the Falklands War, the Gulf War, and the operation in Libya to overthrow Gaddafi. After 9/11, the alliance focused on the war on global terror and global surveillance.

    Edward Snowden's revelations revealed that the Five Eyes used highly publicized tracking systems such as PRISM, Xkeyscore, Tempora, MUSCULAR and STATEROOM.

    Your own heat, but with someone else's hands

    With the height of the war against terrorism, the growing mobility of their citizens, and the onslaught of information, the Five Eyes countries collaborated more and more closely with each other and worked not only against external opponents, but also looked for threats emanating from their own citizens.

    Since 2007, the US National Security Agency (NSA) has been given the power to monitor and store information in its databases about UK citizens. Prior to this, the UK was against the creation of similar data sets in the United States, allowing only the storage of information about landline telephone numbers of its citizens. In 2005, the NSA discussed the possibility of collecting data on citizens of all countries of the Five Eyes alliance without notifying the allies.

    In 2013, Edward Snowden also disclosed a number of documents containing details of payments received by the UK's GCHQ from the NSA. The British The Guardian, in its article “Government Communications Centre: In the Highly Secret World of Britain’s Largest Intelligence Service,” spoke in detail about the cooperation and hierarchy of relations between the two services.

    According to Snowden, the whole point of the supranational alliance is to bypass domestic legislation and organize surveillance of its citizens by the intelligence services of countries allied in the Five Eyes alliance.

    Following the Snowden revelations, human rights activists have criticized the alliance since 2013, accusing it of provoking countries to “do the dirty work” of contracting out and spying on allied citizens. In Canada, judges were outraged that the country's intelligence services delegated surveillance of Canadian citizens to other states within the alliance.

    In 1983, Canadian intelligence agencies spied on members of the British cabinet at the request of Margaret Thatcher. As it turns out over time, since the 1980s, Americans have been following Canadians, Canadians have been following Americans, Australians have been following New Zealanders, etc. and so on. The work of the NSA and New Zealand was described in detail and revealingly by Nicky Hager in the article “The price of membership in the Five Eyes Club is mass espionage on friendly countries.” The European Union also expressed concern that members of the Five Eyes are sharing information about EU citizens with each other.

    There have been many similar incidents in recent years. And although the British today categorically deny that they could have been involved in spying on Donald Trump’s campaign headquarters, “a residue remains.”

    “Charges that the Obama administration somehow used intelligence intelligence for political purposes are completely false,” President Obama's former national security adviser Susan Rice said on MSNBC on Tuesday. It all started on March 4 . Donald Trump tweeted that President Barack Obama broke the law when intelligence agencies spied his campaign. All month long, representatives of the FBI, the White House, the US Congress, political commentators and human rights activists have been speaking non-stop on this issue. There are two problems: firstly, wiretapping must be formally authorized, and secondly, the names of American citizens under development should not be made public by law in the media or leak to other intelligence services and government agencies of the country. Susan Rice is accused of involvement in this leak and using her official position for political purposes. “Help from a friend”? All this fuss and internal squabbles of the US political elite, among other things, shed light on another interesting international agreement. In March, Andrew Napolitano, a former judge of the Supreme Court of New Jersey and a senior judicial analyst for the American television channel Fox News Channel, said that his sources in US intelligence spoke about the Obama administration's request to the British service GCHQ to wiretap Trump so that “there would be no American fingerprints on it.” In a rare public comment, the Government Communications Center (GCHQ), essentially Britain's signals intelligence and intelligence agency, rejected the allegations, saying they were pointless nonsense and should be ignored. Napolitano was temporarily suspended from work, and White House press secretary Sean Spicer and US Presidential National Security Adviser Herbert McMaster apologized to the British authorities. Nevertheless, the issue of cooperation between American and British intelligence services in spying on citizens of allied countries was on the agenda, and The work of intelligence services within the framework of the Five Eyes alliance is actively discussed in the American and British media to this day. Long echo of the Cold War Close cooperation between the British and American intelligence services has been going on for many decades. Together with services from Australia, New Zealand and Canada, they form an intelligence alliance called the Five Eyes. An agreement on intelligence cooperation between the United States and Great Britain and the exchange of intelligence data was reached back in 1940 by Churchill and Roosevelt. In 1946, a formal bilateral agreement was reached (UKUSA), which was later joined by Canada (1948), Australia and New Zealand (1956). A number of other countries (Norway, Denmark, West Germany) were also involved in the exchange of intelligence, but had the status of “third parties” in this alliance. In 2009, France wanted to join the Five Eyes, but members of the alliance did not want to see it as a full member. There are also the “Nine Eyes” (the five countries mentioned plus Norway, Denmark, Holland, France), “14 Eyes”, “41 Eyes” alliances, but all of them are not nearly as close in the exchange of information as the “Five Eyes” core. The Five Eyes, after the end of World War II, focused on spying on the USSR, China and the Warsaw Pact countries. The Five Eyes alliance was directly related to the creation of the now famous Echelon global tracking system. The exchange of information took place during the Vietnam War, the Falklands War, the Gulf War, and the operation in Libya to overthrow Gaddafi. After 9/11, the alliance focused on the war on global terror and global surveillance. Edward Snowden's revelations revealed that the Five Eyes used highly publicized surveillance systems such as PRISM, Xkeyscore, Tempora, MUSCULAR and STATEROOM. but by the wrong hands With the height of the war against terrorism, the growing mobility of their citizens, the flowing wave of information, the Five Eyes countries collaborated more and more closely with each other and worked not only against external opponents, but also looked for threats emanating from their own citizens. Since 2007 The US National Security Agency (NSA) has been given the right to monitor and store information in its databases about UK citizens. Prior to this, the UK was against the creation of similar data sets in the United States, allowing only the storage of information about landline telephone numbers of its citizens. In 2005, the NSA discussed the possibility of collecting data on citizens of all countries of the Five Eyes alliance without notifying the allies. In 2013, Edward Snowden also disclosed a number of documents containing details of payments received by the British GCHQ from the NSA. The British The Guardian, in its article “Government Communications Center: In the Highly Secret World of Britain’s Largest Intelligence Service,” spoke in detail about the cooperation and hierarchy of relations between the two services. According to Snowden, the whole point of the supranational alliance is to bypass domestic laws and organize surveillance of its citizens by the intelligence services of countries allied in the Five Eyes alliance. Following the Snowden revelations, human rights activists have criticized the alliance since 2013, accusing it of provoking countries to “do the dirty work” of contracting out and spying on allied citizens. In Canada, judges were outraged that the country's intelligence agencies delegated surveillance of Canadian citizens to other states within the alliance. In 1983, Canadian intelligence agencies monitored members of the British cabinet at the request of Margaret Thatcher. As it turns out over time, since the 1980s, Americans have been following Canadians, Canadians have been following Americans, Australians have been following New Zealanders, etc. and so on. The work of the NSA and New Zealand was described in detail and revealingly by Nicky Hager in the article “The price of membership in the Five Eyes Club is mass espionage on friendly countries.” The European Union also expressed concern that members of the Five Eyes are sharing information about EU citizens with each other. There have been many such incidents in recent years. And although the British today categorically deny that they could have been involved in spying on Donald Trump’s campaign headquarters, “a residue remains.” Ilya Plekhanov, RIA Novosti

    In the United States, scandals related to the possible wiretapping of Donald Trump's campaign staff by US intelligence agencies have not subsided. “Claims that the Obama administration somehow used intelligence intelligence for political purposes are completely false,” President Obama's former national security adviser Susan Rice said on MSNBC on Tuesday.

    It all started on March 4th. Donald Trump tweeted that President Barack Obama broke the law when intelligence agencies spied his campaign headquarters. Throughout the month, representatives of the FBI, the White House, the US Congress, political commentators and human rights activists have been speaking non-stop on this issue.

    There are two problems: firstly, wiretapping must be formally authorized, and secondly, the names of American citizens under development, by law, should not be made public in the media or “leaked” to other intelligence services and government agencies of the country. Susan Rice is accused of involvement in this “leak” and of using her official position for political purposes.

    "Help from a friend"?

    All this fuss and internal squabbles among the US political elite, among other things, shed light on another interesting international agreement. In March, Andrew Napolitano, a former judge of the Supreme Court of New Jersey and a senior judicial analyst for the American television channel Fox News Channel, said that his sources in US intelligence spoke about the Obama administration's request to the British service GCHQ to wiretap Trump so that “there would be no American fingerprints on it.” fingers."

    The Government Communications Center (GCHQ), essentially Britain's signals intelligence and intelligence agency, denied the allegations in a rare public comment, saying it was all pointless nonsense and should be ignored. Napolitano was temporarily suspended from work, and White House press secretary Sean Spicer and US national security adviser Herbert McMaster apologized to the British authorities.

    However, the issue of cooperation between American and British intelligence services in spying on citizens of allied countries has entered the agenda, and the work of intelligence services within the Five Eyes alliance is actively discussed in the American and British media to this day.

    Long echo of the Cold War

    Close cooperation between British and American intelligence services has been going on for many decades. Together with services from Australia, New Zealand and Canada, they form an intelligence alliance called the Five Eyes. An agreement on cooperation between US and British intelligence services and the exchange of intelligence data was reached back in 1940 by Churchill and Roosevelt. A formal bilateral agreement (UKUSA) was reached in 1946, later joined by Canada (1948), Australia and New Zealand (1956). A number of other countries (Norway, Denmark, West Germany) were also involved in the exchange of intelligence data, but had the status of “third parties” in this alliance. In 2009, France wanted to join the Five Eyes, but members of the alliance did not want to see it as a full member. There are also the “Nine Eyes” (5 mentioned countries + Norway, Denmark, Holland, France), “14 Eyes”, “41 Eyes” alliances, but all of them are not nearly as close in the exchange of information as the “Five Eyes” core.

    The Five Eyes, after the end of World War II, focused on spying on the USSR, China and the Warsaw Pact countries. The Five Eyes was directly related to the creation of the now famous Echelon global tracking system. The exchange of information took place during the Vietnam War, the Falklands War, the Gulf War, and the operation in Libya to overthrow Gaddafi. After 9/11, the alliance focused on the war on global terror and global surveillance.

    Edward Snowden's revelations revealed that the Five Eyes used highly publicized tracking systems such as PRISM, Xkeyscore, Tempora, MUSCULAR and STATEROOM.

    Your own heat, but with someone else's hands

    With the height of the war against terrorism, the growing mobility of their citizens, and the onslaught of information, the Five Eyes countries collaborated more and more closely with each other and worked not only against external opponents, but also looked for threats emanating from their own citizens.

    Since 2007, the US National Security Agency (NSA) has been given the right to monitor and store information in its databases about UK citizens. Prior to this, the UK was against the creation of similar data sets in the United States, allowing only the storage of information about landline telephone numbers of its citizens. In 2005, the NSA discussed the possibility of collecting data on citizens of all countries of the Five Eyes alliance without notifying the allies.

    In 2013, Edward Snowden also disclosed a number of documents containing details of payments received by the UK's GCHQ from the NSA. British The Guardian in its article "Government Communications Centre: Inside the Highly Secret World of Britain's Largest Intelligence Service" spoke in detail about the cooperation and hierarchy of relations between the two services.

    According to Snowden, the whole point of the supra-national alliance is to bypass domestic laws and organize surveillance of its citizens by the intelligence services of allied countries in the Five Eyes alliance. Following the Snowden revelations, human rights activists have criticized the alliance since 2013, accusing it of provoking countries to “do the dirty work” of contracting out and spying on allied citizens. In Canada, judges were outraged that the country's intelligence services delegated surveillance of Canadian citizens to other states within the alliance. In 1983, Canadian intelligence agencies spied on members of the British cabinet at the request of Margaret Thatcher. As it turns out over time, since the 1980s, Americans have been following Canadians, Canadians have been following Americans, Australians have been following New Zealanders, etc., etc. The work of the NSA and New Zealand was described in detail by Nicky Hager in an article “The price of membership in the Five Eyes club is mass espionage on friendly countries”. The European Union also expressed concern that members of the Five Eyes are sharing information about EU citizens with each other.

    There have been many similar incidents in recent years. And although the British today categorically deny that they could have been involved in spying on Donald Trump’s campaign headquarters, “a residue remains.”

    Ilya Plekhanov