OBAMA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WIRETAPPING: “President Donald Trump suggested Monday [5-1-17] he still believes his unsubstantiated allegations that President Barack Obama illegally tapped his phones during the 2016 campaign. ‘I think our sides been proven very strongly and everybody’s talking about it, and frankly, it should be discussed — I think that is a very big surveillance […]
Category: Wiretapping
04/12/2017
CAMPAIGN/INTELLIGENCE/RUSSIA/TRUMP PEOPLE/WIRTAPPING/CARTER PAGE: “The Justice Department obtained a secret court-approved wiretap last summer on Carter Page, a foreign policy adviser to Donald J. Trump’s presidential campaign, based on evidence that he was operating as a Russian agent, a government official said Wednesday [4-12-17]. The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court issued the warrant, the official said, after […]
04/12/2017
INTELLIGENCE/OBAMA/POLITICS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WIRETAPPING: “After a review of the same intelligence reports brought to light by House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes, both Republican and Democratic lawmakers and aides have so far found no evidence that Obama administration officials did anything unusual or illegal, multiple sources in both parties tell CNN. Their private assessment contradicts President Donald […]
4/3/2017
FBI/WIRETAPPING: “.@FoxNews from multiple sources: ‘There was electronic surveillance of Trump, and people close to Trump. This is unprecedented.’ @FBI” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 3, 2017 07:51am […]
4/3/2017
MEDIA/WIRETAPPING: “Such amazing reporting on unmasking and the crooked scheme against us by @foxandfriends. ‘Spied on before nomination.’ The real story.” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 3, 2017 05:15am […]
4/2/2017
LEAKS/WIRETAPPING: “The real story turns out to be SURVEILLANCE and LEAKING! Find the leakers.” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 2, 2017 08:34am […]
4/1/2017
RUSSIA/WIRETAPPING: “Wow, @FoxNews just reporting big news. Source: ‘Official behind unmasking is high up. Known Intel official is responsible. Some unmasked…not associated with Russia. Trump team spied on before he was nominated.’ If this is true, does not get much bigger. Would be sad for U.S.” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 1, 2017 11:50am and 12:02pm […]
4/1/2017
FAKE NEWS/OBAMA/WIRETAPPING: “When will Sleepy Eyes Chuck Todd and @NBCNews start talking about the Obama SURVEILLANCE SCANDAL and stop with the Fake Trump/Russia story?” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 1, 2017 07:43am […]
3/30/2017
2016 ELECTION/INTELLIGENCE/RUSSIA/WIRETAPPING: “The White House said Thursday [3-30-17] that members of its staff had uncovered materials regarding surveillance in the 2016 election, raising questions about whether President Donald Trump’s own aides had shared classified information with the top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee in an attempt to bolster Trump’s claims he was wiretapped. In […]
3/27/2017
2016 ELECTION/CONFLICT OF INTEREST/INTELLIGENCE/RUSSIA/WIRETAPPING/DEVIN NUNES: “House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes met with an anonymous source on White House grounds last week shortly before announcing publicly that U.S. intelligence agencies intercepted information about President Donald Trump and his staff during the presidential transition. A spokesman for Mr. Nunes said the California Republican, charged with overseeing […]
3/26/2017
INTELLIGENCE/OBAMA/WIRETAPPING/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/REINCE PRIEBUS: “Fox News anchor Chris Wallace pressed White House chief of staff Reince Priebus on Sunday over President Donald Trump’s baseless claim that President Barack Obama wiretapped Trump Tower during the 2016 presidential campaign. In an interview on ‘Fox News Sunday,’ Wallace asked Priebus whether Trump accepted the conclusion from law […]
3/23/2017
CONFLICT OF INTEREST/INTELLIGENCE/OBAMA/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WIRETAPPING: “House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes has reportedly apologized to committee members, one day after he went to the president and press, saying the Trump transition team may have been surveilled during former President Barack Obama’s administration… ‘Details about the U.S. persons involved in the incoming administration with little or no […]
3/23/2017
GOP/INTELLIGENCE/NATIONAL SECURITY/OBAMA/RUSSIA/WIRETAPPING/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Representative Devin Nunes, the California Republican who is chairman of a House panel investigating Russian interference in the presidential election, may have dealt his own inquiry a fatal blow on Wednesday [3-22-17]. Armed with intelligence that some Republicans said bolstered President Trump’s widely disputed claim of being wiretapped by the Obama […]
3/22/2017
DONALD ON DONALD/FAKE NEWS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WIRETAPPING: “[Trump] ‘Why do you say that I have to apologize? I’m just quoting the newspaper, just like I quoted the judge the other day, Judge Napolitano, I quoted Judge Napolitano, just like I quoted Bret Baier, I mean Bret Baier mentioned the word wiretap. Now he can now deny […]
3/22/2017
POLITICS/WIRETAPPING: “RT @mitchellvii: EXACTLY AS I SAID – House Intel Chair: We Cannot Rule Out Sr. Obama Officials Were Involved in Trump Surveillance https://…” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, March 22, 2017 08:03pm […]
3/21/2017
LEGAL/OBAMA/WIRETAPPING/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “In accusing former President Barack Obama of ordering Trump Tower wiretapped before last year’s presidential election, President Donald Trump compared the alleged behavior to ‘Nixon/Watergate.’ But John Dean, a former White House counsel under former President Richard Nixon who was charged with obstruction of justice for his role in Watergate, said it’s […]
3/13/2017
KELLYANNE CONWAY/OBAMA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WIRETAPPING: “The Department of Justice is under pressure to provide any documents related to President Donald Trump’s accusation — presented so far without evidence — that the Obama administration wiretapped his phones at Trump Tower during the campaign. The House Intelligence Committee has set a Monday [3-13-17] deadline for the DOJ to […]
3/13/2017
OBAMA/TRUMP PEOPLE/WIRETAPPING/KELLYANNE CONWAY: “White House adviser Kellyanne Conway is denying she suggested there was wider surveillance of President Donald Trump during the campaign, telling CNN Monday that her comments in a recent interview were taken out of context. Sunday night, Conway appeared to expand Trump’s allegations that the Obama administration wiretapped his phones at Trump […]
3/12/2017
OBAMA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WIRETAPPING: “A top intelligence overseer in Congress said he doubts the administration will back up Donald Trump’s claim that former President Barack Obama ordered a wiretap on him during the 2016 campaign. ‘I don’t expect we’re going to see any evidence of this,’ Rep. Adam Schiff (D., Calif.), the top Democrat on the […]
3/09/2017
FBI/INTELLIGENCE/OBAMA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WIRETAPPING: “Federal Bureau of Investigation Director James Comey held meetings with top lawmakers at the Capitol on Thursday [3-9-17] in the midst of growing pressure over political and legal controversies involving the Trump administration. The precise subjects of the talks were unknown. The meetings took place as pressure was building in Congress for […]
3/6/2017
2016 ELECTION/OBAMA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/WIRETAPPING/KELLYANNE CONWAY: “President Donald Trump’s top communications officials are vaguely suggesting that the president possesses classified information supporting his thus-far unsubstantiated accusation that President Barack Obama ordered wiretaps of Trump’s phones during the 2016 presidential campaign. Appearing on ‘Fox and Friends’ on Monday, Trump counselor Kellyanne Conway was asked how the […]