mineset® schreef op 7 maart 2017 07:09:
--A number of ex-Obama officials appear to suggest that the Obama administration
may have actually wiretapped the Trump campaign, but that if they did it would have been justified by a court and part of an investigation by the Justice Department—not led by or ordered from the White House or the former president himself.
--It is clear that there was
a June 2016 FISA request by the Obama administration to monitor communications involving Donald Trump and several advisers. That request was denied as too broad. The rumor is that
the Court was very concerned this was a witch hunt by Obama without any evidence that was akin to Watergate.
--Then in October 2016 before the election,
the Obama administration submitted a new request that was more narrow to the FISA court which targeted a computer server in Trump Tower they alleged would show links to Russian banks.
No such evidence was found. However, the
wiretaps continued claiming it was for national security to try to distinguish this from Watergate.