Former AG: Yes–The President Is Right To Think That Trump Tower Was Under Electronic Surveillance

Townhall.com ^ | March 6, 2017 | Matt Vespa

[Kaslin]

Former Attorney General Michael Mukasey was a guest on ABC’s This Week Sunday, where he told fill-in host Martha Raddatz that this situation is the difference between being correct and being right. President Trump was probably right to think that Trump Tower was the subject of surveillance ordered by the Department of Justice through the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance (FISA) Court, but not correct in his explosive allegation that President Obama tapped his phone.

Raddatz asked what evidence he has to back up his theory. Mukasey based it on previous news reports and Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), the ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee who is working on the scope of a likely investigation into the Trump campaign’s relations with Russia, who said he wanted to talk to the counterintelligence agents at the FBI. Mukasey says that’s a telling sign that this was an intelligence gathering operation, not a criminal one. Mukasey reiterated the role of the FBI, which is to investigate crimes and gather intelligence, with latter formally becoming part of the agency’s purview in 2008.

Fmr. Attorney General: President Trump Is Correct There Was Surveillance At Trump Tower

Mukasey added that the FBI reportedly tried to get a wiretap based on their criminal investigation function in June of 2016 and were rejected. They later got an electronic surveillance order in October of 2016. Raddatz asked if this means that there were suspicious activity between the Trump administration and the Russians, which Mukasey said all it means is that the DOJ felt that someone at Trump Tower might have been acting as an agent to the Russian government for whatever reasons—not necessarily dealing with the election. He also reiterated that the FBI keeps track of anyone, Russian, Korean, Italian, Chinese etc., who act as agents of foreign governments.

[gaijin]

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[TBP]

No president should have that power.

[jettester]

I love when they bring these Repub experts on and ask their opinion. In most cases they speak through the lense of legal processes and procedures and how it should be done. You have to quit thinking “honest and fair” with the Dems - think: lying, deception, underhanded, power grabs, cheating, etc. Then it will all make sense.

[bigbob]

So, how many more pics will you add and how much longer will you keep posting them?

[HartleyMBaldwin]

“...but not correct in his explosive allegation that President Obama tapped his phone.”

So what ever happened to “The buck stops here”?

[Art in Idaho]

Mukasey: " President Trump was probably right to think that Trump Tower was the subject of surveillance ordered by the Department of Justice through the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance (FISA) Court. ." Now it's in doubt there was ever an official FISA, which makes everything worse. Still waiting for that final official clarification. . . Or are they going to take the tack, "There wasn't a FISA, nothing to see here."

From another thread: "That makes the bugging of Trump, and other Republicans, a larger cover-up than Watergate, because the Democrats consciously created the "Russia is in collusion with Trump and the Republicans" narrative to cover-up their own illegal wire-tapping activities." They have indeed been hammering that, especially since January 20th.

Grand Juries for Obama, Hillary, Clapper, Brennan, Lerner and assorted other Obama Administration cronies who Broke The Law. Damn it, are we a nation of laws or not? This precedent thing has to be dealt with. If they all walk, our Sacred Republic is doomed.

Go Trump, go Sessions, go Rudy and anyone else who can help root these people out. Draft Christie? He's a fighter too. Get Jay Sekulow, Mark Levin, Christie, Rudy and other patriots officially involved at the WH or to help Sessions? Fight and bring real Justice back to America.

[Sasparilla]

Very repetitive pictures are tiring.

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[gaijin]

You’re a woman, right?

[Repeal 16-17]

President Trump has the evidence to show that the Liberal Messiah wiretapped Trump Tower. Comey and the Liberal Media know this and that’s why they are desperate to kill this story.

[ptsal]

ditto
enough already - the message has been trolled.

[ptsal]

What kind of comment is this? Looks tacky.

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You’re a woman, right?

[gaijin]

“Tacky” has come to mean ANYTHING.

[Boardwalk]

It’s going to stick.

[dangerdoc]

Not tacky if you get it.

I got it.

[navysealdad]

Michael Flynn was in Trump Tower when talking to Russia ambassador. Was the his phone tapped or the ambassador?

[Rational Thought]

Saw Newt Gingrich make that point tonight, and an excellent point it was.

Now, watch how quickly the Media picks up on that....try never.

[Crash Fistfight]

This is interesting because they don’t need a wire tap or a FISA warrent. We are all under constant nsa surveillance. All obama had to do was request the transcripts.

[P-Marlowe]

You are wasting bandwidth posting these picture over and over and over without bothering to explain why they are necessary.

Some of us don’t have unlimited data on our phones.

Thanks

[itsahoot]

Some of us don’t have unlimited data on our phones.

No one has unlimited data on their phones. They have a plan that says unlimited but with throttling you effectively have a data plan that is unusable for anything other than maybe a txt message. What most now have is a plan that does not bill you after you reach your cap, so what you really have is a data plan that will never cost you more than the plan states unless you specifically buy more.