USA senators ask government for evidence Obama wiretapped Trump

Senate Armed Services Chairman John McCain said Monday that President Donald Trump needs to show evidence he was wiretapped at the behest of former President Barack Obama. His tweets are just the latest in a string of accusations since taking office that either directly contradicted the facts or lacked evidence to substantiate his claims, and they come just days after Trump was widely praised for the unifying tone of his joint address to Congress.

On the same program, former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper dismissed Trump’s wiretapping allegations. But Ruddy quotes James Clapper, Obama’s intelligence director, as saying there was no evidence of collusion between Trump and the Russians.

An Obama spokesman said on Saturday that neither Obama nor any White House official had ordered surveillance on any USA citizen.

This is a developing story.

“There are two lawful ways that allow government officials to target people in the United States for surveillance and to collect the contents of their phone calls and emails: criminal wiretaps, called “Title III” warrants, and national security wiretaps, called Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA, orders”, the New York Times wrote. “They said they had a cardinal rule, well frankly that’s just not true”.

Guests across the Sunday morning spectrum were astonished by the wiretapping accusation, but Trump’s approach echoed how he handled another allegation against Obama. Senior U.S. officials told the Times that Comey has said the president’s wiretapping allegations are false and asked the Justice Department on Saturday to publicly correct the record. Multiple investigations are underway surrounding Russia’s meddling in the U.S. election and questions about contacts between the Kremlin and Trump’s inner circle. The FBI is investigating those contacts, as is Congress.

“If the administration truly believes that President Obama illegally eavesdropped on the Trump campaign and wants our committee to investigate the matter, they should join my call on Director Comey to answer any question put to him that is pertinent to the Russian Federation investigation”, Schiff said in a statement.

Trump was furious about Sessions’ recusal-a decision the attorney-general came to on his own-because it made the administration look weak, said a person familiar with the situation. Any suggestion otherwise is simply false”, Obama spokesman Kevin Lewis said in a statement on Saturday. The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, on the other hand, is responsible for issuing warrants for surveying cases involving foreign intelligence.

The statement raised the possibility that a wiretap of the Trump campaign could have been ordered by Justice Department officials.

“There are these kinds of things that have happened in the past, but nothing to the degree where a sitting president would charge his predecessor with a felony”, Brinkley said.

“Mr. President: If there was a wiretap at Trump Tower, that means a fed judge found probable cause of crime which means you are in deep shit”, Lieu wrote.

Saturday, Representative Eric Swalwell, a Democrat who is a member of the House Intelligence Committee, told Fox News that Trump “is not credible when it comes to talking about Russian Federation”.