Posted on 03/05/2017 3:46:32 PM PST by mandaladon
Former Attorney General Michael Mukasey on Sunday said President Donald Trump is likely right about a wiretap at Trump Tower — but wrong about who ordered it.
In an interview on ABC News' "This Week," the former head of the Justice Department under President George W. Bush said the request was likely "conducted at the behest of the attorney general [at] the Justice Department."
"The president was not correct in saying [former President Barack] Obama ordered a tap on a server in Trump Tower," he said. "However, I think he's right in that there was surveillance."
He also said he doesn't believe Trump was the focus of the court order that allowed the wiretap.
"It means there were some basis to believe that somebody in Trump Tower may have been acting as an agent of the Russians, for whatever purpose," Mukasey said. "Not necessarily the election. For some purpose. The FBI keeps track of people who act as agents of foreign governments."
Mukasey said he based his belief in part on an "inadvertent blurting out" by Democratic California Rep. Adam Schiff, the ranking Democrat on the House Select Committee on Intelligence, who said his committee "wants to talk to the counterintelligence agency at the FBI involved in this."
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Obama may not have “ordered” it, but he damn sure OK’d it....
...and they called BC “slick”
Brits are involved. Some high level dude just recently resigned...
Loretta! You're up!
As much as I want to see 0bama jailed . . . seeing Lynch thrown under the bus will be even better!
You know she won’t roll over on her boss.
Former AG Lynch was verbally instructed to set it up by her boss ....
He may not have ordered it, but I have a hard time believing he didn’t know about it.
Does anyone really think any of those leftist syncophants would do ANYTHING without Obama’s approval????
The Clinton/Lynch meeting on the tarmac looms larger than ever before.
Loretta “Fall Guy” Lynch, we’ll call her. Get back, Loretta...
Former Attorney General Michael Mukasey of course misses the big picture. Who ordered it is irrelevant. Obama knew, that is the relevant information. That is why he loosened the ability for the NSA to share intercepted communications as he was leaving office. Thus Obama is as guilty as whomever actually ordered it.
Yup, especially with the first FISA warrant coming days after that.
Resigned for “family reasons”. I’m laying odds he’ll be found dead of self inflicted wounds soon.
A little editing makes it MUCH more believable.
With the WH Blessing.. Zero Knew and wanted it so it was done..
My ass. No one in the Kenyan’s administration did anything he or that Iran b!tch did not order.
This corruption continues because there is no jail time, Trump and sessions need to start putting some of these bastards away as an example of things to come.
They know the truth will come out.
Time to change the “it didn’t happened” story to, it happened but 0bama didn’t order it”.
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