Tag: Wiretap

12 MAR

House committee wants Trump to hand over evidence for his wiretap claim

Alex Wong/Getty Images WASHINGTON (AP) — 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 […]

09 MAR

2 US senators ask DOJ for evidence of Obama wiretap on Trump

President Donald Trump’s accusation that former President Barack Obama ordered a wiretap on Trump Tower during the 2016 presidential campaign has led two senior US senators to request the government provide them with evidence. Senators Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-Rhode Island) sent a letter to the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the […]

06 MAR

Conservative writer who spoke to Trump after wiretap tweets: ‘I haven’t seen him this pissed off in a long time’

REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst News mogul Christopher Ruddy revealed Sunday that President Donald Trump is furious over how his staggering claim that President Barack Obama wiretapped his office is playing out. “I spoke with the president twice yesterday about the wiretap story. I haven’t seen him this pissed off in a long time,” Ruddy wrote in a column on Sunday for Newsmax, […]

05 MAR

JAMES CLAPPER: ‘There was no such wiretap activity mounted against’ Trump

REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque James Clapper, the director of national intelligence from 2010 until January 2017, said on Sunday that he was not aware of any wiretapping of President Donald Trump during the 2016 election or before he took office, as Trump has alleged. In early morning tweets on Saturday, Trump accused former President Barack Obama of […]