White House ‘apologises’ to Britain over spying claims

Republican and Democratic leaders of both the House and Senate intelligence committees have previously said they have found no evidence to substantiate Trump’s claims that Obama ordered USA agencies to spy on him.

Despite there still being no signs of evidence that former President Barack Obama had Trump Tower wiretapped prior to the 2016 election, the president hasn’t backed down on his accusation. When FBI Director James Comey testifies on Capitol Hill today, he must be clear and direct about whether there was a tap.

Trump tweeted on March 4, “Terrible!”

Parliament’s Intelligence and Security Committee, which oversees the work of the United Kingdom security services, has also piled into the White House’s theory.

“Frankly, unless you can produce some pretty compelling truth, I think President Obama is owed an apology”, Cole told reporters. In the interview on Friday, Mr. Johnson acknowledged his notoriety, but said that his knowledge of surveillance of Mr. Trump came from sources in the American intelligence community.

He said: “We don’t need a cosy relationship with Britain, just the one based on mutual respect and national interest”. “Most of us haven’t seen it yet”. But Trump has been unmoved, leaving his advisers to defend the president without any credible evidence. Yet the president suggested that he is only trying to revise them to better serve U.S. interests, rather than pull back from the world entirely. So, why is the White House doing it?

Speaking at a press conference in Washington, Mr Trump said the White House had quoted a legal commentator who appeared on US TV channel Fox News.

The White House has apologised to Britain over allegations that London’s GCHQ intelligence agency helped former USA president Barack Obama to eavesdrop on President Donald Trump, according to CNN.

“I think we’ll hear quite a direct rebuttal from the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation at our hearing Monday”, Schiff said. If someone says it on Fox News, that’s good enough for us.

‘I didn’t make an opinion on it, that was a statement made by a very talented lawyer on Fox’.

But at a news conference Trump brushed aside a question about whether it was a mistake to accuse British intelligence of eavesdropping.

Meanwhile, Mrs Merkel said it was good for different politicians to have diverse backgrounds.

GCHQ rejected allegations made by White House press secretary Sean Spicer, that it spied on Mr Trump, as “nonsense”.

On Thursday, both leaders of the Senate Intelligence Committee publicly said they had not seen proof of Trump’s charge.

Ranking member Rep. Adam Schiff, a California Democrat, said he was “absolutely confident” the DOJ report would not back up Trump’s allegation.