“Obama is parsing... he might not have ordered it, but wink-wink, he knew about it.”
Exactly.
Soetoro would never leave a paper trail on something like this. All it would take would be a private conversation between him and Loretta Lynch.
Soetoro: “It’d be a real shame if Trump was surveilled and found to have been having damaging conversations with the Russians.”
Lynch: “Yes, Mr. President.”