Trump administration wants more time to give Intel committee wiretapping proof

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Trump administration wants more time to give Intel committee wiretapping proof

 By Joe Uchill - 03/13/17 06:38 PM EDT 

President Trump's administration has asked for more time to comply with a House Intelligence Committee request for evidence substantiating Trump's claims of wiretapping.

The Monday evening request came hours before the committee-set midnight deadline.

 "This afternoon, the Department of Justice placed calls to representatives of the Chairman and Ranking Member of the United States House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence to ask for additional time to review the request in compliance with the governing legal authorities and to determine what if any responsive documents may exist," the DOJ letter read.

 House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes's (R-Calif.) office confirmed the request in a statement, and said the delay could force the committee to "resort to a compulsory process if our questions continue to go unanswered."

 "The Department of Justice has asked for more time to comply with the House Intelligence Committee’s request for information related to possible surveillance of Donald Trump or his associates during the election campaign," Nunes' statement said.
 
"We have asked the Department to provide us this information before the Committee’s open hearing scheduled for March 20. If the committee does not receive a response by then, the Committee will ask for this information during the March 20 hearing and may resort to a compulsory process if our questions continue to go unanswered."
 
Ranking member Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) weighed in on the delay on Twitter. 

 On Wednesday, Nunes and the top Democrat on the committee sent the White House a request to provide evidence that, as Trump tweeted on March 4, “Obama had my ‘wires tapped’ in Trump Tower just before the victory.”

They asked the White House to send over any information backing up those accusations by Monday.

Though he didn't give any information to back up his claims, Trump equated the allegations to McCarthyism and the Watergate scandal.

 The tweets put his own administration and Republican lawmakers in a bind over how to respond.

It is unclear why Trump believes he might have been wiretapped, but his statements came soon after a conservative radio host detailed allegations about the Obama administration surveilling Trump, which were then published by Breitbart News.

 Many Republicans have denied seeing any evidence, including House Oversight Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah), Oversight member Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.), and Senate Intelligence Committee members Sens. Marco Rubio (Fla.) and Tom Cotton (Ark.).

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http://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/323774-trump-administration-misses-intel-committees-deadline-for-wiretapping

[Chosen Daughter]

More time.  Either there is evidence or there isn't.  Looks to me like he is stalling because he made a major twitter mistake.

[kevindavis007]

More time.  Either there is evidence or there isn't.  Looks to me like he is stalling because he made a major twitter mistake.

If it was true, Trump would have the evidence by now.

[LMAO]

More time.  Either there is evidence or there isn't.  Looks to me like he is stalling because he made a major twitter mistake.

 This is one of many huge problem is when it comes to Trump.  He's becoming more more like the boy that cried  "wolf."  What he is doing is he's taking the public's  mistrust of the media and trying to exploit it. So he makes wild, unsubstantiated claims.

He's become like those who push anthropogenic climate change. Make claims first and then go searching for the evidence