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# FBI Director Says There's 'No Evidence' Obama Wiretapped President Trump

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## Video: FBI Director Says There's 'No Evidence' Obama Wiretapped President Trump

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_Published 2017-03-20. The Department of Justice and the FBI have "no evidence" to support President Trump's unfounded and widely-dismissed claim that Barack Obama wiretapped him, FBI Director James Comey said Monday._


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## Transcript

Director Comey, was the president's statement that Obama had his wires tapped in Trump Tower a true statement? With respect to the president's tweets about alleged wiretapping directed at him by the prior administration, I have no information that supports those tweets. And we have looked carefully inside the FBI The Department of Justice has asked me to share with you that the answer is the same for the Department of Justice and all its components. The Department has no information that supports those tweets. Director Kome, can you answer the President's question. Would it be legal for President Obama to have ordered a wire tap of Donal Trump?

BBB I'm not going to characterize a response to the tweets, themselves. I can tell you in general, as Admiral Rogers and I were just saying, there is a statutory framework in the United States under which courts grant permission for electronic surveillance, either in a criminal case or in a national security case, based on a showing of probable cause, carefully overseen It's a rigorous, rigorous process that involves all three branches of government. No individual in the United States can direct electronic surveillance of anyone. It has to go through an application process. Ask a judge, the judge can then make the order.

So President Obama could not unilatery order a wire tap of anyone? No president could.

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