FBI Director Comey asked Justice officials to refute Trump?s unproven wiretapping claim
 

It's about time someone starts doing something about these outlandish claims

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...=.ddfc2d4d2414

FBI Director James B. Comey asked the Justice Department this weekend to issue a statement refuting President Trump?s claim that President Barack Obama ordered a wiretap of Trump?s phones before the election, according to U.S. officials, but the department did not do so.

Comey made the request on Saturday after Trump accused Obama on Twitter of having his ??wires tapped? in Trump Tower.? The White House expanded on Trump?s comments Sunday with a call for a congressional probe of his allegations.

The revelation, first reported by the New York Times, underscores the fraught nature of the FBI?s high-profile investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election. A key question fueling that inquiry is whether Trump associates colluded with Russian officials to help Trump win.

Neither Justice nor the FBI would comment Sunday.

The development came as Trump's charge against Obama ? leveled without any evidence ? was being rebuffed both inside and outside of the executive branch. It drew a blunt, on-the-record denial by a top intelligence official who served in the Obama administration.

Speaking on NBC News on Sunday morning, former director of national intelligence James R. Clapper Jr. denied that a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) wiretap was authorized against Trump or the campaign during his tenure.

?There was no such wiretap activity mounted against the president-elect at the time as a candidate or against his campaign,? Clapper said on ?Meet the Press,? adding that he would ?absolutely? have been informed if the FBI had received a FISA warrant against either.

?I can deny it,? Clapper said emphatically.

In his claims early Saturday morning, the president tweeted that he ?just found out? that Obama had ?my 'wires tapped' in Trump Tower? before the election, comparing it to ?McCarthyism.?

?Is it legal for a sitting President to be 'wire tapping' a race for president prior to an election?? Trump asked in another tweet. ?Turned down by court earlier. A NEW LOW!?

By Sunday morning, the White House doubled down on Trump's explosive tweetstorm and called for the congressional probe.

[Trump, citing no evidence, accuses Obama of ?Nixon/Watergate? plot to wiretap Trump Tower]

Current and former government officials said such surveillance would not have been approved by any senior Justice official in the Obama administration. And Trump?s allegation raised hackles in the FBI leadership, insinuating as it did that the bureau may have acted illegally to wiretap a presidential candidate without probable cause that he was an ?agent of a foreign power,? as the foreign intelligence surveillance law requires.

This is very telling.

AG Jeff Sessions (who lied about meeting with Russia) refused the FBI's request to refute the false claims if wire tapping, and Sessions refused , and instead publicly requested a congressional probe!

Comey knows no wiretaps were done because he would have done them, so does Trump because he gets intel briefings, yet Trump is forcing a congressional probe. Why?

Comey has got to be pissed now.

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."

The only ones that the judges on the Court might give a straight answer to is the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence -- they can get answers from the FISA court in closed session. "national security" -- they were investigating Russian bank transfers is what I read.

This is what happens when the national security clause is invoked and secret courts used.

All the anonymous sources have political interests so far. I guess a committee finding is as reliable as we will get.

WashPo and NYT are both DNC tools. Before they were calling Trump's claims outlandish they were the ones reporting it. Oops...

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The meeting was set up by Obumma

so what was the washington posts source???

a wiretap? lemmee guess...an UNNAMED SOURCE!!!!

just a liberal rag that is confirmed to print news as fake as the enquirer. if you retard libs wanna keep embarrassing yourselves, maybe post news from mad magazine next.

dumb libs.

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Dumb libs come back to this thread with facts not the washington post

lol!!!!!!!

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how many points did washington post say hilary would win by?

& you link to them here, & think you are smart?

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!

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so still no evidence of russia and trump colluding?

Trumps aids are not Trump.

Why are you deflecting? Oh yeah, lie to the end to protect hivemind :thumbsup

Trump's aids worked out of Trump Tower. Thus if the aids were wiretapped, Trump Tower was tapped.

Intel director James Clapper went on Meet The Press yesterday and confirmed no Trump or Trump tower wiretaps.


Comey went public saying Trump is lying too, sort of.

Lying about russia?

you accuse someone of deflecting, a sentence after you deflect.

you put the DUMB in DUMB LIB!!!

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