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Obama administration denies Towergate: Insiders blast Donald Trump's claims
Daily Mail UK ^ | March 4, 2017 | Daily Mail Staff

Posted on 03/04/2017 9:41:40 AM PST by COUNTrecount

Obama administration denies Towergate: Insiders blast Donald Trump's claims Obama wire-tapped his phones at Trump Tower before the election in 'Nixon/Watergate' style scandal

Trump has accused Obama of wire tapping his phones at Trump Tower on Twitter

The president tweeted that Obama had been spying on him in October

He claims the phones in Trump Tower were 'tapped' before his election victory

A former senior intelligence official said 'it's highly unlikely there was a wiretap'

According to official, wiretap can't be directed at US facility, without probable cause the phone lines were being used by agents of a foreign power

The Obama administration has denied President Donald Trump's claims that Barack Obama wire-tapped his phones at Trump Tower before the election.

Ben Rhodes, the former policy advisor for Obama, blasted Trump's accusations on Twitter: 'No President can order a wiretap. Those restrictions were put in place to protect citizens from people like you.'

Rhodes' response came shortly after Trump fired off a flurry of tweets early Saturday morning claiming that the former president had been spying on him in October, a month before his election victory.

'Terrible! Just found out that Obama had my 'wires tapped' in Trump Tower just before the victory. Nothing found. This is McCarthyism!'

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: benrhodes; obamafisa; towergate; trumptowertapped; watergate2
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To: Drew68
The ball is in his court now.

steady: wait until the legions march into the crease and then take them all out with enfilading fire from the flank.

61 posted on 03/04/2017 10:49:37 AM PST by AndyJackson
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To: COUNTrecount
When they say Trumps server was “connected” to two Russian banks, what does that mean exactly? Isn't every computer connected to every other computer on the internet?
62 posted on 03/04/2017 10:49:55 AM PST by Rebelrage ("To crush your enemies -- See them driven, and to hear the lamentation of their women")
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To: Geronimo

Buggee.


63 posted on 03/04/2017 10:50:11 AM PST by PLMerite
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To: ilovesarah2012

If you were going to ask me, I would say that he is doing it because he knows the media will obsess over it for the next 24 to 48 hours, they can’t help themselves. Then he will say and/or do something else while occupied. If there is proof, then it is designed to get Obama appointees fired.


64 posted on 03/04/2017 10:50:26 AM PST by Morpheus2009
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To: ballplayer

I think your tagline is having a seizure...or having too much fun.


65 posted on 03/04/2017 10:52:16 AM PST by PLMerite
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To: lee martell

‘This is Nixon/Watergate’: Trump Accuses Obama Of Wire Tapping Trump Tower Before Election
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Stentor to Helicondelta
Anybody have dibs on TOWERGATE?


66 posted on 03/04/2017 10:54:25 AM PST by Stentor (A day without illegals is like a day without food poisoning.--Salamander)
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To: Pic7

How about BH20Gate, with superscripted 2.


67 posted on 03/04/2017 10:57:12 AM PST by txhurl
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To: Morpheus2009

Why can’t Trump fire all Obama appointees?


68 posted on 03/04/2017 10:58:07 AM PST by ilovesarah2012
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To: COUNTrecount

Americans must remember...there is no,
NO “Obama administration”. That is over and
replaced with the Trump administration as per
our constitution. Any political action on the
part of another group to subvert, or obstruct
the current administration is sedition.


69 posted on 03/04/2017 10:58:14 AM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: txhurl

It became known as Obamagate right after Trump’s first tweet this morning.

#OBAMAGATE

The media will try to rename it, but they are outnumbered.

It’s #OBAMAGATE


70 posted on 03/04/2017 11:01:08 AM PST by Pic7
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To: Jayster

I believe there’s documentation that they did indeed request it.


71 posted on 03/04/2017 11:01:17 AM PST by livius
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To: COUNTrecount
Did he just call me a douche wad? Image result for obama with headphones on
72 posted on 03/04/2017 11:03:11 AM PST by Leep (Cyclops Network News (CNN). The Most Trusted Source Of Fake News.)
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To: Stentor

I’m willing to bet that this story; Towergate will have much longer legs than Russia-gate. Towergate seems far more credible, now that we know what Obama really is and the sort of people he surrounds himself with.


73 posted on 03/04/2017 11:03:15 AM PST by lee martell
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To: COUNTrecount

“Just a day before the 2016 election, Mensch reported that ‘sources with links to the counter-intelligence community’ confirmed that a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISA) had granted a FISA court warrant in October to monitor activities in Trump tower.   

On Wednesday, a New York Times report said White House officials took efforts in the closing days of the Obama administration to analyze and spread information about Russian election interference, driven by a concern that the material might get buried by Trump.” 

There it is in black and white!


74 posted on 03/04/2017 11:03:44 AM PST by Beagle8U (Long live Yoga Pants! ( and boycott 84 lumber. Let's bankrupt the bastards!))
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To: ilovesarah2012

He wants to get them busted for something first. If all he did was fire them, then he would be a political hack. Get them to take a fall over committing an illegal act is more effective.


75 posted on 03/04/2017 11:04:07 AM PST by Morpheus2009
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To: Jayster

The Obama Administration denied it? What does that mean? That administration doesn’t even exist today.

Has Obamba himself denied having any knowledge of this?


76 posted on 03/04/2017 11:09:30 AM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: AFreeBird

Sounds like WiretapGate to me.


77 posted on 03/04/2017 11:12:02 AM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Jayster

Wonder if Val shacking up with now Obama has any ties to the wire taps?.


78 posted on 03/04/2017 11:12:56 AM PST by Vaduz (women and children to be impacted the most.)
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To: COUNTrecount
Confucius say, Deny, deny, deny, even of your Pants are wrapped around your Ankles.
79 posted on 03/04/2017 11:14:02 AM PST by Kickass Conservative (The way Liberals carry on about Deportation, you would think "Mexico" was Spanish for "Auschwitz".)
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To: ilovesarah2012
4th Amendment: "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."

NO PROBABLE CAUSE. ZERO.
80 posted on 03/04/2017 11:14:21 AM PST by ReaganGeneration2
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