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Comey Asks Justice Dept. to Reject Trump’s Wiretapping Claim
New York Times ^ | March 5th 2017 | MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT and MICHAEL D. SHEAR

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: anonymoussources; comey; fakenews; fbi; lynch; nyslimes; nyts; obama; phoneman08; russia; trump; wiretap; wiretapping
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To: CivilWarBrewing

This anarchist stuff is the last costume of her role as Holder’s patsy to cover up the taps. He dirtied her up by engineering her meeting with WJC on the tarmac, left town, and her blood & burn video is to cement her as the goat.


222 posted on 03/05/2017 3:14:54 PM PST by txhurl
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To: CivilWarBrewing

This anarchist stuff is the last costume of her role as Holder’s patsy to cover up the taps. He dirtied her up by engineering her meeting with WJC on the tarmac, left town, and her blood & burn video is to cement her as the goat.


223 posted on 03/05/2017 3:14:54 PM PST by txhurl
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To: Bodleian_Girl

+1


224 posted on 03/05/2017 3:15:23 PM PST by Fantasywriter (Any attempt to do forensic work using Internet artifacts is fraught with pitfalls. JoeProbono)
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To: Avalon Memories

You think the UNIPARTY wants to show all their cards after decades of building an illusion of representative government?


225 posted on 03/05/2017 3:16:38 PM PST by TADSLOS (Reset Underway!)
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To: MadIsh32

Comey needs to recuse hisself.


226 posted on 03/05/2017 3:16:43 PM PST by Paladin2 (No spellcheck. It's too much work to undo the auto wrong word substitution on mobile devices.)
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To: zaxtres; All

Is Comey saying that the FISA court didn’t issue a surveillance order on Trump Tower? And if he isn’t, and the court did issue the order, DJT is correct, right? Is it all this simple?


227 posted on 03/05/2017 3:17:15 PM PST by JonPreston
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To: FredZarguna

The Attorney General runs the Justice Dept now

What’s backwards about that?

You missed my point.

Lynch let Comey decide about HRC’s crimes


228 posted on 03/05/2017 3:17:31 PM PST by Syncro (Facts is facts)
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To: Bodleian_Girl

What’s important about that NYT story is that it gets Trump off the hook if any of the story turns out to be wrong. Nobody would fault him for saying something that had already been printed in the Times.


229 posted on 03/05/2017 3:19:17 PM PST by Alberta's Child ("Yo, bartender -- Jobu needs a refill!")
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To: Nifster

McCabe should have departed on 1/20/2017 at High Noon.


230 posted on 03/05/2017 3:19:32 PM PST by Paladin2 (No spellcheck. It's too much work to undo the auto wrong word substitution on mobile devices.)
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To: GOPe Means Bend Over Spell Run
tapthat
upload a gif


231 posted on 03/05/2017 3:19:42 PM PST by timestax (American Media = Domestic Enemy)
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To: JonPreston

At any rate, I haven’t heard the word ‘Russians’ in 36hours on FNC. lol


232 posted on 03/05/2017 3:19:46 PM PST by txhurl
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To: Professional

Either side has to prove it to be believed. And whichever one does not have their ducks in a row is sunk.


233 posted on 03/05/2017 3:20:38 PM PST by Moonlighter
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To: surrey

??


234 posted on 03/05/2017 3:21:02 PM PST by Alberta's Child ("Yo, bartender -- Jobu needs a refill!")
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To: gaijin

This is evil! All departments are politicized.


235 posted on 03/05/2017 3:21:06 PM PST by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: GOPe Means Bend Over Spell Run

Trump will watch this play out and see who sides with Obama. Smoking them out. So unnerving to go through this again. I guess its the only way to shine a light on it and stamp it out. More prayers for Trump to guide and guard his path.


236 posted on 03/05/2017 3:22:14 PM PST by AmericanMade
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To: Alberta's Child

If I spoke Jive, I’d step in and try to translate :)


237 posted on 03/05/2017 3:22:40 PM PST by txhurl
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To: piytar

Doesn’t negate the president’s claim Trump Tower was bugged. Just who he claims ordered it. If the investigation leads back to Obama, Comey MUST be fired.


238 posted on 03/05/2017 3:22:43 PM PST by Chauncey Gardiner
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To: BuckeyeGOP

Drudge is honestly captioning the NYT article. If these “senior American officials” are legitimate, then Drudge is merely paraphrasing/highlighting the gist of the article. But it’s more likely that Drudge is creating a situation in which the NYT’s sources will once again be discredited. That would be a service to us all.


239 posted on 03/05/2017 3:23:13 PM PST by Fantasywriter (Any attempt to do forensic work using Internet artifacts is fraught with pitfalls. JoeProbono)
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To: Freedom56v2

It was very good. Mark knows his stuff having been in a few key positions in the Reagan White House.


240 posted on 03/05/2017 3:23:39 PM PST by madison10
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