Wall Street Journal: Did Obama Know about Comey’s Surveillance?
The media is less interested in Obama Administration wiretapping than in how Trump described it.
This week CNN is reporting more details on the Obama Administration’s 2016 surveillance of people connected to the presidential campaign of the party out of power. It seems that once President Obama’s appointee to run the FBI, James Comey, had secured authorization for wiretapping, the bureau continued its surveillance into 2017. CNN reports:
US investigators wiretapped former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort under secret court orders before and after the election, sources tell CNN, an extraordinary step involving a high-ranking campaign official now at the center of the Russia meddling probe.
The government snooping continued into early this year, including a period when Manafort was known to talk to President Donald Trump.
Some of the intelligence collected includes communications that sparked concerns among investigators that Manafort had encouraged the Russians to help with the campaign, according to three sources familiar with the investigation. Two of these sources, however, cautioned that the evidence is not conclusive.
This means the wiretapping was authorized more than ten months ago and perhaps more than a year ago. It was presumably a tough decision for a judge to issue a secret warrant under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, enabling the administration to spy on someone connected with the presidential campaign of its political adversaries.
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Previous Post: Former Trump Campaign Chairman Paul Manafort Wiretapped Under Secret Court Orders From 2014 Until This Year. Mueller's Prosecutors Told Manafort to Expect An Indictment (September 19, 2017).
WNU Editor: After a day of reflection .... and re-reading the news reports on this story .... I find it very telling that CNN is admitting that at least two of the three sources that were used in obtaining this court-ordered wire-tap believed that the resulting evidence that was presented to the judge was inconclusive. So why did the judge permit the wiretap? I would also like to know who were the officials who made this decision, and who else did they consult or inform of their surveillance plans. But more importantly .... was President Obama briefed on the details of this investigation, and if yes what did he do? Then there is the Department of Justice claim earlier this year that Trump Tower was not wiretapped .... but if the CNN report is true .... Manafort could have been wiretapped during a time when then candidate Trump was talking to Manafort .... so why did the DoJ make that claim? And then there is the really important question that no one is asking .... did the wire tap capture conversations between Trump and Manfort, and if yes .... what happened to those recordings? I have a hundred and one questions .... but no answers. But what is really freaky is that the main stream media is either quiet on this story .... or they are discounting it as being incidental and that the Manafort investigation was not focused on then candidate Trump but on Manafort's connections to Ukraine .... Right Wing Revives Claim That Trump’s Obama Wiretap Accusation Has Been “Vindicated.” (It Hasn’t.) (Slate). I can understand why the media is responding like this ..... it goes against the narrative that they have been pushing since the election. But in my opinion this is a big story, and I am very confident to say that the drip drip of more revelations will continue .
Update: I don't blame him .... Former Trump campaign chief Paul Manafort demands investigation of report FBI wiretapped him (USA Today).
Of course Obama did!!!! He is one of the biggest snakes in history.
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