Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort was wiretapped under a foreign intelligence warrant in connection with U.S. concerns that he was communicating with Russian operatives who wanted to influence the American election, a former U.S. official familiar with the intelligence confirms to CBS News’ Andres Triay. The warrants were issued before Robert Mueller was appointed […]
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Senate Intelligence Says No Proof Of Wiretapping Or Wider Surveillance
Senate Intelligence Committee leaders released a joint statement Thursday saying that they have no reason to believe that President Donald Trump’s wiretapping claims against then-President Barack Obama are true. “Based on the information available to us, we see no indications that Trump Tower was the subject of surveillance by any element of the United States […]
Trump Says Obama Wire Tapped Him
WASHINGTON — President Trump’s explosive and unsubstantiated claim Saturday that then-President Obama wiretapped his phones before the November election broke new ground in terms of a president publicly assailing a predecessor and left observers and lawmakers seeking a more expansive explanation than Trump’s string of tweets. “In the past, presidents have privately muttered accusations against their predecessors,” […]