2016 ELECTION/CIA/RAND PAUL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Rand Paul has one last question for CIA director nominee Gina Haspel: Was she at all involved with any surveillance of President Donald Trump during the 2016 presidential campaign? The Kentucky senator sent Haspel a letter on Tuesday [5-15-18] laying out his suspicions. The missive amounts to a last-minute effort to derail Haspel before her expected confirmation by attempting to get the president’s own CIA nominee to admit to being aware of the intelligence community monitoring the president…Trump in 2017 accused former President Barack Obama of having his ‘wires tapped’ in Trump Tower in New York. The Justice Department later said there was no evidence of any such wiretaps. One Trump campaign adviser, Carter Page, was the subject of FBI surveillance, and other Trump advisers had conversations with people who were being monitored…In the letter to Haspel, obtained by POLITICO, Paul asked if the CIA or other government agencies monitored or collected communications of candidate Trump in his visits to the United Kingdom or Europe and if Haspel or other CIA employees ‘cooperated with any foreign intelligence services’ to keep tabs on Trump over the last five years.”
-Burgess Everett and Eli Okun, “Rand Paul asks Haspel if she knows of any CIA surveillance of Trump,” Politico, May 15, 2018 5:01 pm