Flashback: FBI’s Comey Doesn’t Deny the FBI Is Wiretapping Trump
‘With respect to the president’s tweets about alleged wiretapping directed at him by the prior administration, I have no information that supports those tweets’
Sep 19, 2017 6:32 AM
By Grabien Staff
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EXCERPT: COMEY: “So no individual in the United States can direct electronic surveillance of anyone. It has to go through an application process, ask a judge, the judge can then make the order.” SCHIFF: “So President Obama could not unilaterally order a wiretap of anyone?” COMEY: “No president could.” SCHIFF: “Mr. Trump also asserted in that tweet that he was — that the application or the president’s order was turned down by a court. Was there any request made by the FBI or Justice Department to wiretap Donald Trump turned down by a court?” COMEY: “That’s one of those subjects I can’t comment on one way or another. Please don’t interpret that in any way other than I just can’t talk about anything that relates to the FISA process in an open setting.”
