Lawmakers demand evidence for Trump's wiretap claim

[groundloop]

Source: CBS News

WASHINGTON -- The House intelligence committee is asking the Trump administration for evidence that the phones at Trump Tower were tapped during the campaign as its namesake has charged.

President Donald Trump asserted in a tweet last week: “Terrible! Just found out that Obama had my ‘wires tapped’ in Trump Tower just before the victory. Nothing found. This is McCarthyism!” He continued the allegation against former President Barack Obama in other tweets but offered no evidence.

On Saturday a senior congressional aide said the request for evidence by Monday was made in a letter sent by the committee chairman, Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., and the panel’s ranking Democrat, Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., according to the aide, who wasn’t authorized to discuss the request by name and requested anonymity.

Obama’s director of national intelligence, James Clapper, has said that nothing matching Mr. Trump’s claims had taken place, but that has not quelled speculation that Mr. Trump’s communications were monitored by the Obama administration. Trump has asked Congress to investigate.

Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/lawmakers-demand-evidence-for-trumps-wiretap-claim/

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Of course there's no evidence to back the claim, it's all a distraction to draw attention away from Russian ties to 45*.

[citizen blues]

1. If Trump Tower was bugged,

The most likely culprit would be his buddies in Moscow trying to keep tabs on him.

[AwakeAtLast]

7. And the CIA

Tapped them?

That would be an interesting turn of events!

[SummerSnow]

9. Just making sure he is following their orders.

Trump hates that the Russians are wiretapping him. He knows it. He wants it to stop and he is at a loss on how to stop it. You lay down with dogs with wake up with fleas they say.

[vlyons]

2. Too bad there's not a First Dog

Traitor Trump could claim that the dog ate the evidence.

[Bengus81]

3. That fact hasn't quelled speculation that Trump was monitored....

that bit of speculation from his knuckle draggers that STILL think Obama wasn't born in the US.

[George II]

4. The only bugs at trump tower were/are cockroaches.

[oberliner]

5. Clapper not necessarily the best person to have out front on this

Wasn't too popular around here in 2013.

[DFW]

6. Maybe not so surprisingly

Trump has not fully grasped that making absurd claims for publicity reasons is one thing you can do as a TV show host. It is not taken as lightly when you occupy the Oval Office.

Oh, he'll get away with it, because president de-facto McConnell will order that nothing come of the claim, but it won't be quickly forgotten, even if Fox Noise and National Hate Radio never mention it again.

[Sunlei]

8. on 3/20 that will be one of the questions.