FBI Director Wants Trump’s Claim of Surveillance by Obama Rejected

“The last thing in the world the intelligence community wants is an investigation by the Congress which will expose how truly pervasive spying is”, Napolitano said.

Presidents Trump and Obama have not spoken to each other since the Inauguration Day, when the latter welcomed Trump for coffee in the White House and accompanied him to the US Capitol for the swearing-in ceremony.

The public hearing will be held on Monday, March 20 and the initial list of people invited to attend includes FBI Director James Comey.

Trump started tweeting shortly after 3.30am ET and posed the question: “Is it legal for a sitting President to be ‘wire tapping” a race for president prior to an election?’

U.S. President Barack Obama meets President-elect Donald Trump to discuss transition plans in the White House Oval Office, Washington, November 10.

“The president can’t demand that anyone gets wiretapped and the only way that there could be a wiretap of Trump Tower is if judges and lawyers and investigators and the justice department felt that Trump was engaging in some illegal behaviour”.

He is the president of the United States and commander in chief of our military forces. “He has information and intelligence that the rest of us do not”.

Nunes also told reporters there is no evidence yet of President Donald Trump being wiretapped past year by then-President Barack Obama, but said the committee will look into it.

Obama wanted to be sure that it was unequivocal that he didn’t do what Trump alleged, the source told NBC News.

Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, former Central Intelligence Agency Director John Brennan and former acting Attorney General Sally Yates were also invited.

Obama and former senior USA intelligence officials flatly rejected Trump’s allegations.

“Theoretically, do I think that a director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation who knows for a fact that something is mythology, but misleading to the American people, then he should set the record straight?”

Asked by ABC News if that means she believes there’s no truth to the president’s claim, she responded, “Of course not”.

Comey met with the so-called “Gang of Eight”, a group of senior-level congressional members cleared to receive secure briefings, in both the House and Senate.

“It’s not a question of proving [the claims]”. And you talk about they have resources and staff, which they do.

When asked by a reporter about his personal feelings on the issue, he declined to elaborate. “My job is to represent the president”.