appear before the House Select Committee on Intelligence today , FBI director James Comey could n’t bid a shred of evidence to stand Donald Trump ’s freakish and all unsubstantiated title that former President Obamawiretapped his phonesat Trump Tower during the election .
“ I have no information that sustain those tweets , ” order Comey .
That ’s right , the read/write head of the FBI is currently sit alongside Michael Rogers , the chief of the National Security Agency , to answer enquiry from members of Congress about Trump ’s psychoneurotic tweets . Comey go on to say that there is “ no data ” that affirm Trump ’s claim and that “ no chair could ” regulate a wiretap .
“ I ’ve seen nothing on the NSA side that we engaged in such activity , nor that anyone engaged in such activity , ” said Rogers .
Literally nobody — include Trump himself , who essentially has access code to all of the humanity ’s intelligence activity — has provided even the smallest piece of evidence to prove his wiretapping claim . Hmm … it ’s almost as if Trump was lying ?
For the first time , Comey publicly recognise a counterintelligence probe into Russia ’s ostensible attempt to influence the 2016 presidential election against Hillary Clinton and in favor of Donald Trump . Furthermore , Comey articulate the scope of the investigation will let in any possible links between Trump campaign staffers and the Russian governing . The universe of the investigating has previously been reported , but this is the first time we ’ve seen the principal of the FBI actually hold it exists .
“ We will never recognize whether the Russian interposition was determinative in such a close election , ” say Representative Adam Schiff , ranking nonage member of the committee , during the hearing . “ Indeed it is unknowable in a campaign in which so many humble change could have dictated a different result . More importantly , and for the purposes of our investigation , it only does not weigh . What does matter is this : the Russians successfully meddled in our democracy , and our intelligence government agency have concluded that they will do so again . ”
Not only did Trump make a batshit demented lie about Obama wiretapping his phone , he managed to pull in two of America ’s close intelligence allies , Germany and the UK , into the mess . First , he had closet lackey and generally angry man Sean Spicer propose that the British equivalent of the NSA , the GCHQ , were the ace who may have wiretapped Trump . Afterward , the Trump White House had toquickly backpedalto soothe angry GCHQ officials . Then , when German Chancellor Angela Merkel call the White House , Trump joke that both of them had been wiretapped by Obama , a mention to documents leaked by Edward Snowden that reveal American intelligence operation had spied on Merkel ’s earphone . Say what you want about the president , but who else can reverse their bad tweets into an international intelligence disaster ?
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