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doc03

(35,359 posts)
Mon Mar 6, 2017, 07:11 PM Mar 2017

Why is this wiretapping thing still going on after over 24 hours? Can't anyone come out

and definatly say it is not true? Why does the DOJ say "not to my knowlege"? No official statement from the FBI or DOJ. Doesn't the f----g buck
stop anywhere?

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Eliot Rosewater

(31,112 posts)
1. Because fuckface will just allege it was being done by spooks and
Mon Mar 6, 2017, 07:12 PM
Mar 2017

there is no way to ultimately prove or disprove.

I dont know if the allegation was detailed enough to say this group did it or that, probably not, that way they can say there is no definitive proof either way.

doc03

(35,359 posts)
2. Oh my question was just answered Sessions won't let the DOJ make any statement according to
Mon Mar 6, 2017, 07:18 PM
Mar 2017

Rep. Geramendi.

csziggy

(34,136 posts)
3. Comey Asks Justice Dept. to Reject Trumps Wiretapping Claim
Mon Mar 6, 2017, 07:26 PM
Mar 2017
By MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT and MICHAEL D. SHEARMARCH 5, 2017

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, who made the request on Saturday after Mr. Trump leveled his allegation on Twitter, has been working to get the Justice Department to knock down the claim because it falsely 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.

Mr. Comey’s request is a remarkable rebuke of a sitting president, putting the nation’s top law enforcement official in the position of questioning Mr. Trump’s truthfulness. The confrontation between the two is the most serious consequence of Mr. Trump’s weekend Twitter outburst, and it underscores the dangers of what the president and his aides have unleashed by accusing the former president of a conspiracy to undermine Mr. Trump’s young administration.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/05/us/politics/trump-seeks-inquiry-into-allegations-that-obama-tapped-his-phones.html


Of course, Jeff Sessions' DOJ will not do it. Sessions is part of the Trump cabal and will not say anything against the thing he helped put into office.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
4. Nonsense. How many denials do you insist on?
Mon Mar 6, 2017, 07:28 PM
Mar 2017

And why? Everyone else knows they started immediately and from the top of various agencies. Just today James Clapper denied again and requested the DNI issue a denial.

If you want a signed and sealed investigative report, you'll have to wait for one. They're real. People don't just pull them out their noses.

Kaleva

(36,320 posts)
5. Can't prove a negative.
Mon Mar 6, 2017, 07:32 PM
Mar 2017

It is up to Trump to provide the evidence that wire tapping did indeed take place.

Chakaconcarne

(2,459 posts)
6. Maybe Wiretaps did happen...
Mon Mar 6, 2017, 07:39 PM
Mar 2017

Because they were investigating trump but no one can discuss it because it's ongoing....and trump blaming Obama rather than a court ordered investigation politicizes it and takes some of the heat off trump?

doc03

(35,359 posts)
8. Actually Trump has changed the MSM focus off of the Russians onto
Mon Mar 6, 2017, 07:43 PM
Mar 2017

wiretaps "mission accomplished".

spanone

(135,855 posts)
9. russia is an ongoing investigation that will not go away. this just shows how insane he is.
Mon Mar 6, 2017, 07:47 PM
Mar 2017

and how desperate he is to change the focus.

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