Kenny Tran
Wiretapping, what is it? Wiretapping is the practice of connecting a listening device to a telephone line to secretly monitor a conversation.
On March 4, 2017, Trump accused former President Barack Obama of wiretapping Trump Tower. Trump tweeted on Twitter, “Terrible! Just found out that Obama had my “wires tapped” in Trump Tower just before the victory. Nothing found. This is McCarthyism!” Donald Trump also called Obama a “sick/ bad guy.”
White House Secretary Sean Spicer stated this about Donald Trump’s tweet, “I think there’s no question that the Obama administration, that there were actions about surveillance and other activities that occurred in the 2016 election,” Spicer said. “The President used the word wiretaps in quotes to mean, broadly, surveillance and other activities.”
Although Donald Trump does claim that his wires were tapped, he has provided no evidence. Trump also accused former national security Susan E. Rice of committing a crime, without providing evidence to support it.
A former FBI agent and a cyber security expert, Clint Watts, believes that Russians may have had something to do with this. “You don’t know where it started,” said Watts, referring to Trump’s wiretapping claim, which the FBI has flatly denied. “You don’t know if it comes from the administration or if the administration picked it up from another outlet, which is part of the debate if you remember back when that [wiretapping] claim came out. Did he [Trump] hear that inside the government, or did that actually come from his news feed? And it sounds like the latter, it came from his news feed.”
Watts is referring to the previous tweet. What he is saying is where did Donald Trump get this information? Who told him this?
Republicans are trying to gather some evidence to support it, and they may have a lead. On April 3, they were able to find evidence that Susan Rice, the 24th United States Security Advisor, made unmasking requests that revealed the identities of Trump associates. There are valid reasons to be concerned about unmasking. Civil libertarians have long feared that spy agencies could use the legal targeting of foreigners as a back door to spy on Americans with whom they are communicating.
The Republicans are pointing fingers at Rice and the N.S.A. or National Security Agency. The N.S.A would have had to determine that the intercepts had “intelligence value,” and then to approve any unmasking based on its two criteria: that Rice had “a valid need to know” the identities of masked names and that unmasking was necessary to understand the report.
So far, more investigation is needed. Once more information has been revealed, we will report on the findings.
Trump can’t just accuse Obama without evidence!
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I hear ya. It is a pattern with him going back years. This is not the first time, and I am sure it won’t be the last.
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Shame on Trump.
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Wow
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can ya’ll do something hillary now for once??
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Hillary’s not president. She’s pretty much out of the spotlight now. Trump, however, is in the public eye every moment of the day, as was the case every previous president.
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I know and realize that but the media loves to point out the bad in Trump for example when he launched the 60 missile in syria and the media pointed out the bad but when people in syria are praising Trump all i’m saying is stop for like a week on hating him and do a article that shows the good that he has done for this country like getting our jobs back he created 227,000 jobs and hes only been in for 82 days.
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maybe if trump actually started to do more good things, people and the media would focus on that instead.
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ya he has. He has made 300,000 Plus jobs! as Former president Obama made negative 1 million plus (Fox News)
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You’re right Brandon, a lot of people have been avoiding the subject of employment and they need to start trying to find a bright side. There will actually be an article showcasing some of his accomplishments soon.
But even so, there are a lot of promises he hasn’t come through on and a lot of questionable actions on his part, so you can understand why the media has been having such a field day. Everyone’s just trying to do their job.
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When is Trump gonna build A WALL
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YA! MAGA!!!
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my house has walls
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Good to know, Justin.
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Good to know, Justin.
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does your house have walls?
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mine does
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i love them very much
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my house also has a roof
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good old roof
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i ❤ my house
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I’m glad you like your house
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My house does not have walls it only has a roof I live under a bridge. But someday I will live under Trumps great wall.
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I hope or just in a normal house
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