Showing posts with label wiretapping. Show all posts
Showing posts with label wiretapping. Show all posts

Friday, September 22, 2017

The Mueller Probe Reportedly Has White House Staffers Freaked | Alternet

White House staff are so worried about Robert Mueller's investigation into Russia's possible collusion with Donald Trump's campaign that some in the West Wing are suspicious their colleagues are wearing a wire....
http://static.icopyright.net/user/view.act?fuid=MjYxMjE1MjE=&s=repubhub&showDate=false


Wednesday, September 20, 2017

Manafort was under investigation before, during and after his time working for Trump—for good reason

Paul Manafort was under surveillance by the FISA court before, during, and after his six months as Donald Trump’s campaign chairman. That wasn’t because President Obama both hated Donald Trump and somehow knew that Manafort would sign onto the Trump campaign. It’s because there are few people in the nation more deserving of investigation than Paul Manafort.....
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1699819

Sunday, September 3, 2017

Justice Department: No evidence Trump Tower was wiretapped -- CNN

The Justice Department said in a court filing Friday evening that it has no evidence to support President Donald Trump's assertion in March that his predecessor, Barack Obama, wiretapped the phones in Trump Tower before last year's election. ....
http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/02/politics/justice-department-trump-tower-wiretap/index.html

Tuesday, April 18, 2017

Trump Didn’t Know How FISA Worked Before Making Obama Wiretap Claim

President Donald Trump waited until after publicly accusing his predecessor of wiretapping his campaign headquarters to ask aides how Barack Obama would have been able to obtain a warrant to do so, the New York Times reported Thursday....
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/trump-reportedly-didnt-know-fisa-worked-before-obama-wiretap-allegation


Saturday, April 1, 2017

The White House is trying to distract from Trump's wiretap claims with a dubious new talking point

A former Obama administration official responsible for the Defense Department's Russia policy has come in the White House's crosshairs for what they have characterized as her admission that Obama-era officials were collecting intelligence on President Donald Trump and his transition team. ...
http://www.businessinsider.com/evelyn-farkas-trump-wiretap-obama-white-house-2017-3


Monday, March 27, 2017

This Trump tweet was one of his most terrifying lies yet -- Business Insider

The president is using his office as a platform to contest the very nature of truth. ...
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2017/03/trump_s_comey_tweet_was_one_of_his_most_terrifying_lies_yet.html

Fact Check: Trump Misleads About The Times’s Reporting on Surveillance

In an interview with Time magazine on Wednesday, President Trump cited The New York Times as evidence of his claim, made in a series of Twitter posts on March 4, that President Barack Obama had wiretapped his phones in Trump Tower during the 2016 presidential campaign. The F.B.I. director, other top intelligence officials and numerous Republicans have rejected this claim. Here’s an assessment of Mr. Trump’s references to The Times’s reporting....
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/23/us/politics/fact-check-trump-misleads-surveillance-wiretapping.html?_r=0


Thursday, March 23, 2017

Trump Surveillance Flap Throws Monkey Wrench Into House Russia Investigation

Explosive accusations and countercharges on Wednesday threatened to derail one of Congress' investigations into the potential connections between President Trump's 2016 campaign aides and Russia's meddling in the election. The Republican chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, Rep. Devin Nunes of California, announced that he had learned that then-President-elect Donald Trump and some of his staff had been caught up in U.S. surveillance of foreign targets overseas in the months after the election....
http://www.npr.org/2017/03/22/521133929/house-intel-chair-trump-aides-swept-up-in-legal-u-s-surveillance

Rep. Adam Schiff slams House Intelligence chair for acting as a ‘surrogate of the White House’

“President Trump’s claims that he was [wiretapped] remain as baseless today as they were yesterday and the day before.”...
https://thinkprogress.org/rep-adam-schiff-slams-house-intelligence-chair-for-acting-as-a-surrogate-of-the-white-house-79c33ddb51c6#.cfevyxiqp

Wednesday, March 22, 2017

Ryan: We Didn't Learn Anything New From Comey Hearing (TPM)

House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) on Tuesday said that he did not learn anything "new" from FBI Director James Comey's testimony about Russian interference in the U.S. election. He also reiterated that he has not seen any evidence indicating that President Donald Trump's campaign colluded with Russian government officials. ...
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/paul-ryan-comey-russia-nothing-new

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