Reuters joins NYT & AP re “without evidence”, but Reuters - with a whole pile of their writers/editors - uses the phrases:
“offers no evidence” and “offered no evidence”
22 Jul: Reuters: Trump says his campaign was spied upon illegally, offers no evidence
Reporting by David Stamp in London; Additional reporting by Pete Schroeder and Amanda Becker in Washington, and Roberta Rampton in Bedminster, N.J.; Editing by David Goodman, Jason Neely and Daniel Wallis
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Sunday that documents released by the FBI relating to a former adviser’s ties to Russia showed that his campaign for the 2016 presidential election had been illegally spied upon by U.S. law enforcement, but offered no evidence to support his assertion...
A White House spokeswoman referred questions on why Trump believed the documents proved the FBI and DOJ demonstrated illegal conduct or were misleading courts to Trump’s personal counsel. His lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, did not respond to a request for comment.
The DOJ did not immediately respond to requests to comment on Trump’s allegation. The FBI declined to comment. ..
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-russia-page-doc/trump-says-carter-page-documents-show-doj-and-fbi-misled-courts-idUSKBN1KC0EP
the original:
Without Evidence, Trump Claims Vindication From Release of Carter Page Documents
New York Times · 12 hours ago
It’s bizarre. They just print whatever they want to be true. But according to even WaPo: one whole section, out of 6, is devoted to the Steele dossier. And two sections are completely redacted so it could be more.
who got the documents that initially were to be a Judicial Watch scoop?
Yesterday 6:29pm: Splinter News: Here Are the Secret Documents About the Surveillance of Ex-Trump Adviser Carter Page
by Dell Cameron and Jack Mirkinson; Additional reporting by Susie Banikarim, Aleksander Chan, and Bryan Menegus.
The records were obtained by Gizmodo Media Group (GMG), Splinter’s parent company, via a Freedom of Information Act request filed in April 2017. Other media and political organizations, including the New York Times, USA Today, and Judicial Watch, also filed FOIA requests.
https://splinternews.com/here-are-the-secret-documents-about-the-surveillance-of-1827768635
USA Today writes of FBI harbouring “broader evidence”...yet provides no evidence of the evidence!
USA Today: FBI releases FISA records on Carter Page surveillance
by Brad Heath, USA TODAYPublished 7:49 p.m. ET July 21, 2018 | Updated 9:13 a.m. ET July 22, 2018
The FBI released more than 400 pages of documents in response to lawsuits by USA TODAY and other media organizations...
Two of the four surveillance requests had been approved by top Trump appointees in the Justice Department, including Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.
But the records also show the FBI harbored broader suspicions – and broader evidence – about Page’s possible ties to the Russian government...
The documents offer few clues about the scope of that surveillance. But in its application, the FBI noted that the surveillance “may incidentally acquire other foreign intelligence information.”...
They also offer little information about what, if anything, the government learned in nearly a year of monitoring Page’s communications. The surveillance court granted the Justice Department permission to extend its surveillance of Page three times in 2017. In each of those applications, the department said it was providing the court updated information about its investigation, but those details were largely omitted from the materials released Saturday...
The FBI’s surveillance applications argued the government had probable cause to believe Page had committed a crime in acting as an agent of the Russian government, though the Justice Department did not reveal Saturday which laws it thought he had broken. U.S. District Judge Rosemary Collyer endorsed that conclusion when she approved the surveillance request...
USA TODAY and the James Madison Project, a non-partisan organization that promotes government accountability, filed a lawsuit last year under the Freedom of Information Act seeking records about surveillance of Trump’s campaign...
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2018/07/21/fbi-releases-carter-page-fisa-records/813984002/