In response, the British intelligence agency denied this. (Reuters)In his daily press briefing yesterday, White House press secretary Sean Spicer repeated a claim that President Barack Obama had used British spies to surveil President Trump. It’s the initials for the British intelligence spying agency. It is wildly unlikely that U.S. and British intelligence agencies would secretly collaborate to monitor a U.S. presidential candidate. Nor would British intelligence have any obvious motivation to collaborate in such an arrangement.

Source: Washington Post March 16, 2017 23:12 UTC