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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhy 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?
Eliot Rosewater
(31,112 posts)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)Rep. Geramendi.
csziggy
(34,136 posts)WASHINGTON The F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, asked the Justice Department this weekend to publicly reject President Trumps assertion that President Barack Obama ordered the tapping of Mr. Trumps 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. Comeys request is a remarkable rebuke of a sitting president, putting the nations top law enforcement official in the position of questioning Mr. Trumps truthfulness. The confrontation between the two is the most serious consequence of Mr. Trumps 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. Trumps 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)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)It is up to Trump to provide the evidence that wire tapping did indeed take place.
Chakaconcarne
(2,459 posts)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?
Bucky
(54,039 posts)spanone
(135,855 posts)doc03
(35,359 posts)wiretaps "mission accomplished".
spanone
(135,855 posts)and how desperate he is to change the focus.
trof
(54,256 posts)Don't expect ANY independent action by DOJ.