House committee requests copies of any Trump eavesdropping orders

[DonViejo]

Source: Reuters



09 MAR 2017 AT 14:20 ET

A U.S. House of Representatives panel has asked the Justice Department for copies of documents which if they exist could shed light on President Donald Trump’s allegation that the Obama administration wiretapped his election campaign.

The House Intelligence Committee asked the department in a letter for any request it may have made in 2016 relating to Trump or his associates to the secret court that supervises government electronic eavesdropping

If Trump’s campaign or advisers were indeed being wiretapped in the United States, the most likely legal path for the Obama administration to do so would be to have the Justice Department ask the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, or FISC, for permission to eavesdrop.

Trump accused predecessor Barack Obama on Saturday of wiretapping him during the late stages of the campaign, but offered no evidence for an allegation which an Obama spokesman said was “simply false”.

Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/2017/03/house-committee-requests-copies-of-any-trump-eavesdropping-orders/

[mwooldri]

1. Let me help them out. I know the answer. Full details below.

(If this was paper based, I'd send in a blank sheet of paper listing everything... i.e. nothing)

[Stonepounder]

2. I have a real problem with this article.

Trump did NOT say the 'Obama administration' wiretapped him. He said that Obama directly and personally ordered the wiretap, which would be a felony.

The Obama 'administration' includes the DOJ, FBI, CIA, NSA, etc. The CIA could, quite legally, go to the FISA court and request a warrant and, if said warrant was granted, wiretap in Trump Tower quite legally. And Obama could have been none the wiser if, say, the CIA was tapping the phone of Paul Manifort.

[notdarkyet]

3. Sessions just said on MSNBC he might have a special prosecutor to investigate

Obama tapping trump. I'm rolling my eyes.

[riversedge]

4. Sessions should be fired IMHO.

[ananda]

5. This probably plays well to the hate Obama base.

But seriously?

Well, I guess it serves as just another deflection.