House intel committee will probe Trump’s wiretap accusation against Obama

Trump has asked the panels to also investigate leaks and even suggested earlier this week that former President Barack Obama ordered wiretaps of his office at Trump Tower. There is ample evidence that the Obama administration did similar things to private citizens.

National Security Agency (NSA) spied on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

President Donald Trump’s recent speech before Congress helped boost his job approval ratings to a negative 41 – 52 percent, according to a Quinnipiac University poll. Almost 63 percent said the issue is very/somewhat serious, while 31 percent said it was not very/not at all serious.

“I don’t believe that to be the case”, said Nunes, who was a member of Trump’s transition team executive committee. Similarly, 58 percent felt there should be an independent investigation into contacts between Trump associates and Russian Federation, while only 35 percent said there should not be.

Asked again by host Chuck Todd whether there was a FISA court order to monitor Trump Tower, Clapper said, “Not to my knowledge”.

According to news reports, Yates warned the White House on January 23 that routine monitoring of Kislyak’s communications showed that Flynn had given a misleading account to Vice President Mike Pence of what he’d said in his call with the Russian ambassador.

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), right, and ranking Democrat Adam B. Schiff (Calif.) are asking the Justice Department to turn over copies of any applications, orders or warrants related to wiretaps of President Trump or his surrogates, associates, friends and family. The Justice Department has issued no statement in response to Trump’s claim.

“I have not seen that evidence”, Nunes said. The Obama camp denied that the former president or White House officials “ever ordered surveillance on any US citizen”. On the other hand, if Mr Trump, an inveterate conspiracy theorist, was peddling inflammatory nonsense about his predecessor and America’s intelligence agencies, that would also be serious. “But if we have to, we will subpoena all information that is pertinent to this investigation if people either. don’t want to appear or if the appropriate agencies do not provide the information we ask for”.

The committee, along with its counterpart in the Senate, is investigating Russian efforts to influence US presidential election. Half of independents disapprove of Trump’s job performance, up from 47% last month, as do one in 10 Republicans (up from 6%).

Voters trust the media more than Trump 53 – 37 percent “to tell you the truth about important issues”.

But faced with an aggressive grilling from reporters during his first on-camera briefing in more than a week, Spicer was unable to offer any evidence or source of Trump’s accusation.

We previously wrote an article that these are the dark days of journalism which probably died in the USA previous year in favor of favoritism and cheerleading for a particular side.