Towergate WILL be investigated: Congress will probe Trump's claims Obama bugged his Manhattan home after White House request

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SOURCE: DAILY MAIL

URL: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4283584/White-House-asks-Congress-look-wire-tapping-claims.html

By Dailymail.com Reporter and Associated Press and Nikki Schwab, U.s. Political Reporter For Dailymail.com


The Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee says his panel will probe President Donald Trump's allegations that Trump Tower was wire-tapped by President Obama's administration.

Rep. Devin Nunes, Rep for California, said his committee 'will make inquiries into whether the government was conducting surveillance activities on any political party's campaign officials or surrogates', the chair said in a statement Sunday afternoon.

The White House demanded Sunday morning that Congress investigate Trump's claims, which he tweeted out Saturday morning, suggesting Obama abused his executive powers in connection with the 2016 presidential election.

'Terrible! Just found out that Obama had my 'wires tapped' in Trump Tower just before the victory. Nothing found. This is McCarthyism!' the president wrote on Twitter. McCarthyism is the practice of making accusations of subversion or treason without proper regard for evidence.

Trump offered no evidence supporting the tapping of telephones in Trump Tower, while a spokesman for Obama denied the allegation as 'simply false'.

Lawmakers in both parties have asked to see proof.

Earlier Sunday, Senate Intelligence Committee member, Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., suggested his committee would look into the matter as well.

'We've already begun an inquiry on the intelligence committee into Russia's efforts to undermine confidence in our political system,' Cotton said on Fox News Sunday.
'That inquiry is going to be thorough, and we're going to follow the facts wherever they lead us. And I'm sure that this matter will be a part of that inquiry.'

Cotton's committee chair, Sen. Richard Burr, R-N.C., made a broader statement.

'As I've said since the beginning and have repeated since, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence will follow the evidence where it leads, and we will continue to be guided by the intelligence and facts as we compile our findings,' Burr said Sunday.

It came after James Clapper, the former director of national intelligence in the Obama administration, 'absolutely' denied there was a secret court order for surveillance at Trump Tower.

White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer had said earlier in a statement on Sunday that reports 'concerning potentially politically motivated investigations immediately ahead of the 2016 election are very troubling'.

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[Formerly Once-Ler]

It will be investigated.  I doubt anything will come out it.  Just like the investigations of throngs of NJ muslims cheering 9/11, or birtherism, or the Bowling Green Massacre, or whatever happened in Atlanta.

Beam Me Up! - Congressman James Traficant

[Weird Tolkienish Figure]

Putting ideas into Trump's head of stuff for Congress to investigate would be a successful tactic of the left to stop/slow-down the GOP agenda in Congress as they're too busy investigating Trump's ghosts. Just saying.

[txradioguy]

You know I was really hoping that with Obama finally leaving the WH...the Scandal of the Week drama series would be dropped from regular news programming.

Now it looks as if it's been put into daily syndication.

[Weird Tolkienish Figure]

You know I was really hoping that with Obama finally leaving the WH...the Scandal of the Week drama series would be dropped from regular news programming.

Now it looks as if it's been put into daily syndication.

It's been replaced with Scandal of the Day.