This guy Comey does not understand that gen Flynn was in THE TRUMP TOWER when he had a phone conversation with the Russian Ambassador? How was it possible to leak Flynn’s conversation unless Trump tower was being surveiled?
This guy Comey does not understand that gen Flynn was in THE TRUMP TOWER when he had a phone conversation with the Russian Ambassador? How was it possible to leak Flynn’s conversation unless Trump tower was being surveiled?
This is technically correct although they would say the “target” of the eavesdropping was not in Trump Tower - i.e. the Russian ambassador was somewhere else. However, it is absolutely clear that an American citizen was monitored and then to add insult to injury the conversation was allegedly transcribed, distributed throughout the Obama administration (thanks to a weird change of policy in the final days), and then this transcript was leaked to the media for partisan purposes.
If this does not fit the very definition of eavesdropping I don’t know what would.
From what I understand, Flynn was not in Trump Tower when his phone was tapped. In fact I recently read a report that he was in another country when one of the phone calls was made.
I have wondered where he was. Is that information solid?
This is very confusing because some comment was made re the Flynn logistics at the time of the call - and it was said that Flynn was in a foreign country (not Trump Tower).
I thought that sounded weird, but nobody questioned it.
However, Clapper and Brennan had been surveiling Trump since Bush 41; in Trump Tower.
They were taping the Russian when Flynn called him. That is how he was picked up and recorded, but releasing Flynn’s name was a felony.
I saw one assertion that Flynn was in the Dominican Republic at the time of the conversations in question he had with the Ambassador. I find this misdirection because Flynn had to know all bets were off the table in regards to surveillance if he were out of the country. I think it was Flynn’s unregistered lobbying for Turkey that got him booted.