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Originally Posted by Bladewire
Comey knows no wiretaps were done because he would have done them,
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Comey wanted the DOJ to say that Obama himself didn't order the wiretap. Perhaps because many Americans only need to hear that if Obama didn't order a wiretap, the wiretap never happened. But the wiretap did happen. The non-partisan FISA court denied it, but then they got it on appeals from Clinton appointed judges.
Obama's team released this statement:
"A cardinal rule of the Obama Administration was that no White House official ever interfered with any independent investigation led by the Department of Justice. As part of that practice, neither President Obama nor any White House official ever ordered surveillance on any U.S. citizen. Any suggestion otherwise is simply false."
Note that he isn't saying there was no wiretap, only that he didn't order it. In other words, he is throwing Loretta Lynch under the bus. The same woman who met privately with Bill Clinton on the plane "to talk about their grandkids."