Comey Asks Justice Dept. to Reject Trump’s Wiretapping Claim

New York Times ^ | March 5th 2017 | MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT and MICHAEL D. SHEAR

[MadIsh32]

WASHINGTON — The F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, asked the Justice Department this weekend to publicly reject President Trump’s assertion that President Barack Obama ordered the tapping of Mr. Trump’s phones, senior American officials said on Sunday. Mr. Comey has argued that the highly charged claim is false and must be corrected, they said, but the department has not released any such statement.

Mr. Comey made the request on Saturday after Mr. Trump leveled his allegation on Twitter. Mr. Comey has been working to get the Justice Department to knock down Mr. Trump’s claim because there is no evidence to support it and it insinuates that the F.B.I. broke the law, the officials said.

A spokesman for the F.B.I. declined to comment. Sarah Isgur Flores, the spokeswoman for the Justice Department, also declined to comment.

[Democrats hate too much]

this may be fake news by the slimes.

[AndyJackson]

All I know, is there better had damn well been a wire tap.This is now proven beyond a doubt Hillary Was Tipped Off On Trump Wiretap – Tweeted About it [October 31,2016] One Week Prior to Election

[surrey]

I think VaJar runs the whole show. They’re just her worker bees.

[dila813]

I think you are right.

[Fantasywriter]

Quoting the NYT is giving them credibility. What have they ever done to deserve it?

[timestax]

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[servantboy777]

later

[AndyJackson]

All I know, is there better had damn well been a wire tap..

This is now proven beyond a doubt Hillary Was Tipped Off On Trump Wiretap – Tweeted About it [October 31,2016] One Week Prior to Election

[CivilWarBrewing]

FBI didn't tap Trump

DOJ didn't tap Trump

The NSA tapped Trump by order of VALERIE JARRETT and no one else knew about it, EXCEPT FOR THE HILLARY CAMPAIGN.

Worse than Watergate AND I WANT TO KNOW WHAT BRIAN PAGLIANO KNEW AND WHEN? DID HE SET HILLARY'S SECRET SERVER UP AS AN EAVESDROPPING TOOL ON THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN? Is that why she deleted so many emails and explains why her IT GUY Pagliano was a NO SHOW before Congress?

[FlingWingFlyer]

Comey has got to go. The boy is retarded and a real pain in the ass.

[FredZarguna]

It's Ed Klein. He wrote a book about the FBI investigation of HRC and claimed that both the DOJ and the other intelligence agencies would not help the Bureau, that Comey resented Clinton's getting away with it, and had decided to prosecute when Lynch told him he could not do so.

He makes a decent case. I personally never believed his book; but he may be right. We'll see.

[RoosterRedux]

Relax All. This is just getting started.

There will be many false reports until the truth comes out.

[RummyChick]

We need a “deep throat” for Obamagate

[fuzzylogic]

lol - they’re panicking. The more they scream the more it looks like an investigation is required.

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

It seems awfully inappropriate for Comey to comment on this in any way, whether he knows something does not know anything, or anything else.

I can’t recall a situation where the FBI director came out with an “opinion” on the contents of a case or potential case so early in the genesis.

[independentmind]

I have no doubt that Valerie Jarrett fits somewhere into the picture.

That a political operative may have had dealings with the NSA is rather unsettling.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

DID HE SET HILLARY'S SECRET SERVER UP AS AN EAVESDROPPING TOOL ON THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN?

Highly unlikely. Her private server existed years before Trump declared his presidential run.

[virgil]

I wouldn’t trust NYT or WaPo

[mountainlion]

So why wouldn't there be a black FBI working for obama and hiding their work form the GOP?

[heights]

“All I know, is there better had damn well been a wire tap”

Flynn was wiretapped. Remember sparky