Posted on 03/05/2017 8:46:42 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Former Director of National Intelligence (DNI) James Clapper on Sunday denied President Trump's allegations that former President Barack Obama wiretapped Trump Tower before the election.
During an interview on NBC's "Meet The Press," Clapper was asked if he would be aware if something like that had happened.
"I would certainly hope so ... Obviously I can't speak officially anymore," Clapper said on NBC's "Meet The Press."
"But I will say that for the part of the national security apparatus that I oversaw as DNI, there was no such wiretap activity mounted against the president-elect at the time, as a candidate, or against his campaign."
Clapper also said he would know if a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) court order existed for "something like this." "And at this point you can't confirm or deny whether that exists?" host Chuck Todd asked.
"I can deny it," Clapper said in response.
"There is no FISA court order," Todd asked.
"Not to my knowledge," Clapper responded.
The president on Saturday claimed Obama had his "wires tapped" at Trump Tower before his presidential victory. He laid out the claims without any evidence and questioned whether it was legal for a sitting president to be "'wire tapping' a race for president prior to an election."
White House press secretary Sean Spicer on Sunday said investigations into Russia's attempts to influence the election should include the president's claim that the Obama administration "abused" its investigation powers in 2016.
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And the GOP never held him accountable.
This one fact has allowed run away, third world country type crimes to flourish in the USA by the democrat party and Republican rats to the point of almost no return. People must pay for their crimes. Look at the Clintons.
First of all clapper has proven he has absolutely NO CREDIBILITY;
second: Who believes that Hussein 0bama let any LAWS stop him? Once he went through the motions with the FISA court, he most likely proceeded with the tap anyway, if they weren't already in place.
Did he deny it personally or was it denied by his newly acquired criminal defense lawyer? Or did the lawyer advise him to Deny?
We are going to hear a whole lot of “I don’t remember” from all of these people. The wisdom on the left is that if you say you don’t remember then you go free.
thanks for the link,
“there was no such wiretap activity mounted against the president-elect at the time, as a candidate, or against his campaign.” “
No wiretap. IE, No physical plugging into wires. But Clapper the liar intercepted emails, messages, launched hacking attacks, etc.
But he didn’t splice into the wires circa 1950 FBI style.
What a liar.
Might also mean that the FISA application came from the FBI or DoJ? Clapper is scum. So it’s still entirely possible that he’s lying. After all he isn’t under oath while making these squishy statements.
Again, there is a carve-out here.
The courts did not allow a tap on Trump, they allowed a tap on Trump Towers because the Obama administration led the court to believe this was a tap on the Russians.
They were DENIED the tap on Trump.
Now they have plausible deniability. Thus the stories about Trump and the Russians.
“oh we didn’t tap Trump.... we tapped the Russians, and “somehow” those transcripts were leaked to the press...”
Right. He’s a liar.
The MSM wants it both ways. When it hurts Trump, Trump Tower was wiretapped. When Obama is indicted over illegally wiretapping Trump Tower, it never happened.
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