Former official denies Trump's phones were tapped

Former official denies Trump's phones were tapped

Tuna mkurupukaji mwingine Kui, yeye huongea tu bila kutafakari negative impact ya kauli zake.

kui said:
Asee, yaani hata ku confirm kwanza kama story ya kweli ama sio, akaanza tu kumwaga tweets..
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BAK said:
Tuna mkurupukaji mwingine Kui, yeye huongea tu bila kutafakari negative impact ya kauli zake.
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Heheh!, Kazi Ipo. Dunia lazima Inashangaa Marekani ya sasa.
 
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...“A short time later, he’s given a stack of newspapers — including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, The Washington Post and, long his favorite, The New York Post —"...

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Hahahahaha lol! FAKE NEWS sometimes they too can report REAL NEWS 🙂🙂

kui said:
...“A short time later, he’s given a stack of newspapers — including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, The Washington Post and, long his favorite, The New York Post —"...

No comment. 😀
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BAK said:
Hahahahaha lol! FAKE NEWS sometimes they too can report REAL NEWS 🙂🙂
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Hahaa!, asante umenisaidia ku highlight.

Naona mpaka the NY post ndani kwenye morning readings zake. 🙂
 
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Hata mie nimeshangaa hiyo list. Anapiga kelele kuhusu FAKE NEWS kumbe anayasoma na saa zote anaflip channels kati ya CNN, ABC na NBC lol!

kui said:
Hahaa!, asante umenisaidia ku highlight.

Naona mpaka the NY post ndani kwenye morning readings zake. 🙂
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BAK said:
Hata mie nimeshangaa hiyo list. Anapiga kelele kuhusu FAKE NEWS kumbe anayasoma na saa zote anaflip channels kati ya CNN, ABC na NBC lol!
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McCain calls on Trump to clarify wiretapping claim - CNNPolitics.com

Washington (CNN)

Sen. John McCain said Sunday that President Donald Trump should either retract or substantiate his claim that President Barack Obama wire-tapped him in the final weeks of the presidential campaign and added he expects more to come on Russia's meddling in the US election.

McCain said on CNN's "State of the Union" that he had "no reason to believe" Trump's allegation, which the President has not supported with any evidence and which a White House official said was prompted by a Breitbart article.
"I have no reason to believe that the charge is true, but I also believe that the President of the United States could clear this up in a minute," McCain told anchor Jake Tapper. "All he has to do is pick up the phone, call the director of the CIA, director of national intelligence and say, 'OK, what happened?'"


The Arizona senator's comments marked the latest high-profile call for the President to explain a series of tweets he sent on March 4 in which he claimed, without evidence, that Obama had the "wires tapped" at Trump Tower. Since Trump leveled the stunning accusations, several current and former national security officials denied the accusation, including former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, as did Obama himself through his spokesman. Sources have told CNN that FBI Director James Comey also pushed back against Trump's claim.
Under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, law enforcement agencies must obtain a warrant from a secret court to undertake such monitoring. But communications of Americans may be swept up in the monitoring of foreigners, as was reportedly the case with ex-national security adviser Michael Flynn, whose leaked contacts with Russian diplomat Sergey Kislyak led to his ouster.

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Reports that Trump's associates contacted Russians known to US intelligence during the campaign have dogged Trump for months, raising questions about whether those contacts had anything to do with Russia's meddling in the US election. The US intelligence community has concluded that Moscow launched an aggressive hacking campaign to undermine the candidacy of Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.
 
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Last week, White House press secretary Sean Spicer said he was going to let President Trump's tweets alleging wiretapping by former president Barack Obama speak for themselves. This week, Spicer is not merely speaking for the tweets; he is rewriting their meaning.

“If you look at the president's tweet, he said very clearly, quote, 'wire tapping' — in quotes,” Spicer said during Monday's news briefing, making air quotes with his fingers to emphasize his point. “There's been substantial discussion in several reports. … There's been reports in the New York Times and the BBC and other outlets about other aspects of surveillance that have occurred. The president was very clear in his tweet that it was, you know, 'wire tapping' — that spans a whole host of surveillance types of options.”

Ah, the old air-quotes defense. According to Spicer's new argument, Trump didn't necessarily mean wiretapping when he said “wire tapping” — and reporters should know this because he put the phrase in quotation marks. By “wire tapping,” Trump could have been referring to any one among “a whole host of surveillance types.” Obviously.

This is quite a remarkable standard Spicer is trying to set for his boss. None of the “several reports” Spicer referenced actually claim that Trump or his aides were wiretapped, despite claims to the contrary. Fox News Channel's Steve Doocy said on the air Monday morning that “there's no doubt about the fact that at least Michael Flynn was wiretapped,” and counselor to the president Kellyanne Conway said on CNN a short time later that “we know that General Flynn was wiretapped.”

Wrong. The Washington Post reported last month that pre-inauguration phone calls between Flynn, who resigned as national security adviser, and Russia's ambassador to the United States were intercepted by U.S. intelligence agencies because the ambassador was wiretapped. That's a key distinction that the president's aides and media boosters seem determined to obscure.

If Trump has evidence that Flynn or anyone else on his team was bugged, he has not produced it, and news reports do not support his charge against Obama.

But Spicer contended in the briefing room that Trump is nevertheless right by an incredibly loose definition of “wire tapping” that includes a wide range of investigatory tactics.

The unavoidable conclusion is this: Spicer knows that no evidence of actual wiretapping is coming, so his best shot to vindicate Trump is to claim that “wire tapping” could mean something else.

Analysis | Sean Spicer just explained why ‘wire tapping’ is different from wiretapping

kui ukuje mtaa huu.
 
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