Many in the media are diving deeply into minutiae in order to discredit any notion that President Trump might have been onto something in March when he fired off a series of tweets claiming President Obama had "Tapped" "Wires" in Trump Tower just before the election.
If Trump officials - or Trump himself - communicated with Manafort during the wiretaps, they would have been recorded, too.
Last week, we discovered multiple Trump "Transition officials" were "Incidentally" captured during government surveillance of a foreign official.
In May, former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and former Acting Attorney General Sally Yates acknowledged they, too, reviewed communications of political figures, secretly collected under President Obama.
Intel agencies secretly monitored conversations of members of Congress while the Obama administration negotiated the Iran nuclear deal.
To date, the Trump Department of Justice - like the Obama Department of Justice - is fighting me in court and working to keep hidden the identities of those who accessed a government internet protocol address found in my computers.
In 2016, Obama officials searched through intelligence on U.S. citizens a record 30,000 times, up from 9,500 in 2013.Two weeks before the election, at a secret hearing before the FISA court overseeing government surveillance, NSA officials confessed they'd violated privacy safeguards "With much greater frequency" than they'd admitted.
http://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/351495-it-looks-like-obama-did-spy-on-trump-just-as-he-did-to-me
The FBI, Clapper said, was simply trying to answer the question, "Were the Russians infiltrating, trying to gain access, trying to gain leverage and influence?".
Clapper's comments came shortly after the Justice Department, under pressure from the White House, agreed to review allegations by Trump and his allies that the president's campaign was inappropriately surveilled in 2016.
According to media reports, an FBI informant made contact with several members of the Trump campaign during the 2016 election as part of the bureau's probe into potential collusion with Russian officials on their attempts to interfere in the presidential race.
Trump and his backers have accused law enforcement officials of working to infiltrate the Trump campaign with the motivation of undermining the real estate mogul's White House bid.
Clapper on Tuesday defended the use of an informant, characterizing it as "a fairly benign tool available to the FBI, given all the other capabilities available" to the agency.
The Trump administration is also pushing for a review of the information collected by the informant and interviews with the FBI officials who made the decision to connect the informant with the campaign.
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/05/22/fbi-spy-trump-james-clapper-responds-602723
If Trump officials - or Trump himself - communicated with Manafort during the wiretaps, they would have been recorded, too.
Last week, we discovered multiple Trump "Transition officials" were "Incidentally" captured during government surveillance of a foreign official.
In May, former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and former Acting Attorney General Sally Yates acknowledged they, too, reviewed communications of political figures, secretly collected under President Obama.
Intel agencies secretly monitored conversations of members of Congress while the Obama administration negotiated the Iran nuclear deal.
To date, the Trump Department of Justice - like the Obama Department of Justice - is fighting me in court and working to keep hidden the identities of those who accessed a government internet protocol address found in my computers.
In 2016, Obama officials searched through intelligence on U.S. citizens a record 30,000 times, up from 9,500 in 2013.Two weeks before the election, at a secret hearing before the FISA court overseeing government surveillance, NSA officials confessed they'd violated privacy safeguards "With much greater frequency" than they'd admitted.
http://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/351495-it-looks-like-obama-did-spy-on-trump-just-as-he-did-to-me
Clapper: FBI was not spying on Trump
Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said Tuesday that the FBI was not at any point spying on the Trump campaign.The FBI, Clapper said, was simply trying to answer the question, "Were the Russians infiltrating, trying to gain access, trying to gain leverage and influence?".
Clapper's comments came shortly after the Justice Department, under pressure from the White House, agreed to review allegations by Trump and his allies that the president's campaign was inappropriately surveilled in 2016.
According to media reports, an FBI informant made contact with several members of the Trump campaign during the 2016 election as part of the bureau's probe into potential collusion with Russian officials on their attempts to interfere in the presidential race.
Trump and his backers have accused law enforcement officials of working to infiltrate the Trump campaign with the motivation of undermining the real estate mogul's White House bid.
Clapper on Tuesday defended the use of an informant, characterizing it as "a fairly benign tool available to the FBI, given all the other capabilities available" to the agency.
The Trump administration is also pushing for a review of the information collected by the informant and interviews with the FBI officials who made the decision to connect the informant with the campaign.
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/05/22/fbi-spy-trump-james-clapper-responds-602723
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