Who “Wire Tapped” President Trump?

The Coach's Team ^ | 3/20/17 | Jim Emerson

[Oldpuppymax]

On Jan 20, 2017, Inauguration Day, the New York Times print edition featured on the front page “Wiretapped Data Used in Inquiry of Trump Aides." From the Article:

“The F.B.I. is leading the investigations, aided by the National Security Agency, the C.I.A. and the Treasury Department’s financial crimes unit. The investigators have accelerated their efforts in recent weeks but have found no conclusive evidence of wrongdoing, the officials said. One official said intelligence reports based on some of the wiretapped communications had been provided to the White House.”

And:

“Numerous news outlets, including The New York Times, have reported on the F.B.I. investigations into Mr. Trump’s advisers. BBC and then McClatchy revealed the existence of a multiagency working group to coordinate investigations across the government.” Americans will find out when FBI Director Comey meets with congress next week.

After the now famous Tweet from President Trump on 4 March, the Times changed the On-line headlines to “Intercepted Russian Communications Part of Inquiry into Trump Associates.” Now they have a dilemma: either admit the President was correct, change their story to protect their sources or admit it was fake news. As for investigation, so far the agencies are in full denial mode. The edits were made to appear that the Russian Embassy was the actual target.

Louise Mensch of Heatstreet reported that two counter-intelligence agents had confirmed that the FBI sought and was granted a FISA court warrant in October giving them permission to target Donald Trump and advisors’ ties to Russia. The FBI’s counter-intelligence arm was targeting Trump Tower to discover possible financial and banking offences. In other words, it was a fishing expedition.

Judge Andrew Napolitano has been reporting that the Obama administration bypassed American assets, NSA, CIA and the Department of Justice. The Barack Regime simply...

[kjam22]

Comey says he’s been investigating Trump campaign since last July, but they didn’t do any wire tapping. Who really believes that? The first thing they do is listen to your phone conversations.

[COBOL2Java]

[stephenjohnbanker]

“Its kinda nice to see the NYT between a rock and a hard place.”

Or between Iraq and a “safe space”.............: )

[pjd]

The denials are always carefully parsed. They say that they have no evidence that Obama ordered wiretapping on Trump.

They could could be referring to “wiretapping” specifically, as in tapping telephones. But that doesn’t say anything about the many other surveillance methods that could have been used.

It also could mean that Obama, himself, didn’t “order” the wiretaps, but it doesn’t mean that he didn’t let it be known that he wanted them or that they didn’t happen. These denial always have a huge amount of wiggle room in them and they definitely don’t mean that no wiretapping or surveillance took place.

[The_Media_never_lie]

If nothing else comes out of these hearings, this question MUST be answered: Was the January 20th NYT article true or false? If true, the intelligence agencies are now lying. If false, it was fake news. The Republicans must drive a wedge between the NYT and the deep state intelligence people. If the Republicans fail to hone in on this point, the hearings will have been a travesty.

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As usual, who will bet that the Republicans will not have a coherent strategy which MUST answer your excellent question, but will instead exhibit individual grand standing and failure.