


So by simply having two people go to them saying President Obama needs transcripts of conversations involving candidate Trump, conversations involving President-elect Trump, he is able to get it. They have 24/7 access to the NSA database. What the heck is GCHQ? That’s the initials for the British spying agency. NAPOLITANO: So, three intelligence sources have informed Fox News that President Obama went outside the chain of command - he didn't use the NSA, he didn't use the CIA, he didn't use the FBI, and he didn’t use the Department of Justice. But if he does that, there is a record of the order.

So he can order the NSA, which already has the digital version of our phone calls, to transcribe the digital version into a transcript and give it to him. We have all the American surveillance and technology at our fingerprints.ĪNDREW NAPOLITANO: OK, so, the statutes authorize the president of the United States to order the surveillance of any person in the United States of America without suspicion, without probable cause, and without a warrant, meaning he doesn't have to go to a court to do it. From the March 14 edition of Fox News’ Fox & Friends:īRIAN KILMEADE (CO-HOST): Judge, what do you mean he can't prove it? I thought he could prove everything. Donald Trump, the president-elect, was surveilled as he says he was, … it was done by a foreign intelligence entity,” Britain’s Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), at the request of former President Barack Obama. The following morning, Napolitano again claimed on Fox that “three intelligence sources have informed Fox News that President Obama went outside the chain of command” and “used GCHQ” to acquire “transcripts of conversations involving candidate Trump,” ensuring that “there is no American fingerprints on this” and no evidence of the alleged surveillance. Fox News senior judicial analyst Judge Andrew Napolitano claimed on the March 13 edition of Fox News’ The First 100 Days that “if then-Mr. Napolitano: Obama Used British Intelligence To Spy On Trumpįox’s Andrew Napolitano: “Obama Went Outside The Chain Of Command” To Ask For “Transcripts Of Conversations” Involving Trump.
