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Comey Asks Justice Dept. to Reject Trump’s Wiretapping Claim
New York Times ^ | March 5th 2017 | MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT and MICHAEL D. SHEAR

Posted on 03/05/2017 1:50:03 PM PST by 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.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: anonymoussources; comey; fakenews; fbi; lynch; nyslimes; nyts; obama; phoneman08; russia; trump; wiretap; wiretapping
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To: Batman11

Oops, some salty language on this!


441 posted on 03/06/2017 10:13:57 AM PST by Batman11 ( The USA is not an ATM!)
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To: WMarshal
Time to fire Comey and every DOJ attorney.

Way past time. Far more than that must happen or we're going to lose the country to an oligarchy or end up in a civil war. This is not going to end well no matter what.

442 posted on 03/06/2017 10:26:31 AM PST by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: MadIsh32

A second grader could write a more factual article, this is BS. They report hearsay as fact, terrible.


443 posted on 03/06/2017 10:29:02 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: Syncro

I hear you. The absurdities keep piling up.


444 posted on 03/06/2017 12:03:12 PM PST by DoughtyOne (NeverTrump, a movement that was revealed to be a movement. Thank heaven we flushed!)
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To: amorphous

“:^)


445 posted on 03/06/2017 12:03:41 PM PST by DoughtyOne (NeverTrump, a movement that was revealed to be a movement. Thank heaven we flushed!)
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To: MadIsh32

It is time to get a new FBI Director.


446 posted on 03/06/2017 5:10:03 PM PST by Architect of Avalon
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To: MadIsh32

This moron is trying to place both sides of the street, sometimes on the same day.


447 posted on 03/06/2017 7:53:03 PM PST by Rockitz (This is NOT rocket science - Follow the money and you'll find the truth.)
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