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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.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


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: MadIsh32

Flashback:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3445386/posts

Reporter: FBI ordered ‘no photos, no pictures, no cell phones’ during Clinton/Lynch meeting
Hotair ^ | July 1,2016 | LARRY O’CONNOR

“The former president steps into her plane. They then speak for 30 minutes privately. The FBI there on the tarmac instructing everybody around ‘no photos, no pictures, no cell phones.’”


61 posted on 03/05/2017 2:02:09 PM PST by maggief
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To: 9YearLurker

It is not 6 weeks late to do anything. President Trump still has not had his full cabinet confirmed. Once he has his ducks in a row you can expect President Trump to take actions that, to leftists, will look like Wagner’s Götterdämmerung.


62 posted on 03/05/2017 2:02:38 PM PST by WMarshal (President Trump, a president keeping his promises to the American people. It feels like winning.)
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To: MadIsh32

Sorry, I will not read any FAKE news from the Slimes.

Bye.


63 posted on 03/05/2017 2:03:35 PM PST by KeyLargo
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To: piytar
I'm glad you clarified that because I was wondering how a dead man, Thomas Foley, was still employed or even involved.

I have not doubt that he is still voting for Democrats though. 8>)

64 posted on 03/05/2017 2:03:47 PM PST by Robert DeLong
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To: MadIsh32

Why the F is Comey still employed by the US government? Can someone explain this to me????


65 posted on 03/05/2017 2:04:21 PM PST by Batman11 ( The USA is not an ATM!)
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To: Professional

Exactly right. Words have meanings.


66 posted on 03/05/2017 2:04:47 PM PST by bigbob (We have better coverage than Verizon - Can You Hear Us Now?)
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To: MadIsh32

This guy is really should have been given a pat on the head, and thank you and a plaque, and then sent somewhere where he could do no damage.


67 posted on 03/05/2017 2:04:48 PM PST by BlackAdderess (Proverbs 17:22 A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.)
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To: Freedom56v2

I have to admit, I am not a Levin fan since his anti-Trump crusade, but he nailed the issue on Fox today. The leftist globalists are about to go to prison.


68 posted on 03/05/2017 2:04:55 PM PST by WMarshal (President Trump, a president keeping his promises to the American people. It feels like winning.)
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To: MadIsh32

This is all happening after they sidelined Sessions and before his deputies are Trump appointees.


69 posted on 03/05/2017 2:04:59 PM PST by Williams (Stop tolerating the intolerant.)
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To: TADSLOS

Why would Comey, per Ed Klein, tell Trump he was tapped, then turn around and tell DOJ to deny it-—unless he’s trying to appear “nonpartisan” and knows DOJ can’t deny it.


70 posted on 03/05/2017 2:05:04 PM PST by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
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To: MadIsh32
Clapper is not a crook.

Comey is not a crook.

Well, there is only one conclusion left from all of this. Trump is a crook.

So are they all, all honourable men [Mark Anthony, funeral oration, Julius Caesar].

71 posted on 03/05/2017 2:05:25 PM PST by AndyJackson
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To: dila813; 9YearLurker
Thanks. Given what was said in the interview, I think this ‘news’ is more disinformation relying on the words ‘ordered’. The jury is still out on Comey, imo.
72 posted on 03/05/2017 2:05:31 PM PST by LuvFreeRepublic ( #MAGA)
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To: Professional

Exactly, look at the words. President Trump never said that Obama “ordered” the wire tap in any of the Sat a.m. tweets. And, even if Obama never ordered it, it is unlikely that such a wire tap would have been sought through the FISA court without Obama’s approval.
Also, by his statement isn’t Comey confirming that there was a wire tap, just that it wasn’t ordered by Obama?


73 posted on 03/05/2017 2:05:34 PM PST by falcon99
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To: phoneman08

Congratulations, you just fell into the Democrat/Lying Media trap.

THINK!


74 posted on 03/05/2017 2:06:16 PM PST by bigbob (We have better coverage than Verizon - Can You Hear Us Now?)
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To: MadIsh32

I do not believe this!! This story has no proof. The bogus fisa warrants are admitted!!!!! What the hell is going on? The justice department was 100 % complicit in illegally wire tapping the Trump Tower!! Comey should go to jail!! Not lieing to the NYT!!


75 posted on 03/05/2017 2:06:23 PM PST by WENDLE (Watch this on John McCain. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zO0mHEJyC3Y)
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To: MadIsh32

FAKE NEWS or, at most, a complete mischaracterization of what he FBI is doing. Consider the source folks...let’s wait to hear directly from Comey.


76 posted on 03/05/2017 2:06:54 PM PST by House Atreides (Send BOTH Hillary & Bill to prison.)
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To: MadIsh32

What I still see off here is that Obama’s people and the press and now the NYTimes report re: Comey all have denials that Obama “ordered” the surveillance as Trump supposedly had claimed he had. Instead what Trump had tweeted was merely that Obama “had” the surveillance done, which could perhaps only be provable by evidence at the level of Obama not having stopped it after he was informed of it, signed the FISA request or directive, or was given information from it.

That’s all I got. But Comey has seemed like a snake all along—like too many of Obama’s hires. He should have had Rudy in there as chief of staff and kept the non-loyal types out of his admin.


77 posted on 03/05/2017 2:06:57 PM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: servantboy777

I suspect they are putting out this “plausible deniability” situation & will pin this on a lesser figure in Obama’s administration. And technically they can get away with this, because this is how these things are set up, but everyone knows Obama would know about this & give a wink & a nod to see that it gets done.


78 posted on 03/05/2017 2:07:17 PM PST by LongWayHome
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To: teletech

HUGE DITTO.. COMEY is one of the PROBLEMS!!
FIRE HIM!!


79 posted on 03/05/2017 2:07:46 PM PST by pollywog (" O thou who changest not....ABIDE with me")
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To: dragnet2

Right—when that wasn’t the word that Trump used.

But even if Comey had made such a request—how did it get to the Times?


80 posted on 03/05/2017 2:07:50 PM PST by 9YearLurker
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