House committee schedules first Russian Federation hearing for March 20

“But we also don’t have any evidence of many people who have been named in multiple news stories that supposedly are under some type of investigation”.

A former Central Intelligence Agency counterterrorism analyst says President Donald Trump’s freaky Twitter rant over the weekend could sow the seeds for his downfall. There is ample evidence that the Obama administration did similar things to private citizens. Except he was citing that same Leftmedia. “To be honest, we don’t know yet”.

Asked Tuesday whether his investigation into Trump’s Russian Federation ties would include an examination of his tax returns – which Trump, breaking decades of political convention, never released – Nunes told a reporter there was no need to do so. “That is one potential scandal”, Schiff said.

It’s not only the media.

The New York Times reported that senior American officials say FBI Director James Comey has argued that the Justice Department must correct the claim because it falsely insinuates that the FBI broke the law. And make no mistake, this will be investigated – a demand the president may come to regret.

Then again, with all Comey did to help Hillary Clinton, maybe it’s not so unusual after all.

However “there was no wiretap against Trump Tower during the campaign conducted by any part of the national intelligence community”, Clapper insisted on Monday.

The FISA Court turned down the Obama’s administration’s first request to wiretap Trump even though it was signed off on by Lynch. An Obama spokesman denied it.

But this weekend’s tweetstorm, accusing President Obama of “tapping my phones in October” – a quite specific charge – isn’t just idle gossip acquiring a life of its own because its source is the commander in chief.

‘I will do everything in my power to reasonably ensure that all information concerning my activities related to Russian Federation previous year is preserved, ‘ Page the top Republican and Democrat on the committee.

Until he was briefed on the report, Trump had refused to accept the intelligence agencies’ conclusion that the Russians had hacked the Democratic computers.

So where did Trump get the idea that Obama wiretapped him?

The FISA Court was put in place in 1978 when Congress enacted the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. Last month, the White House recruited Nunes and his Senate counterpart – Sen.

In addition, Nunes said that he has had no communication with the White House regarding the request.

Julian Sanchez, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute, said that for the justice department to target United States persons under Fisa directly, it would have to show probable cause that they were acting as “agents of a foreign power”.

The President offered no evidence or sourcing, has not commented about it since, and as far as anyone can tell, is getting his “information” from Breitbart and other conspiracy sites. “And both have described efforts by officials from the Obama administration to involve itself in the continuing investigations of Trump and Russian Federation”.

The House and Senate intelligence committees are conducting separate probes into the various Russian Federation allegations. We hate to be pessimistic, but don’t count on it.