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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Oops, some salty language on this!
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.
A second grader could write a more factual article, this is BS. They report hearsay as fact, terrible.
I hear you. The absurdities keep piling up.
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It is time to get a new FBI Director.
This moron is trying to place both sides of the street, sometimes on the same day.
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