James Komi
FBI Director James Comey has asked the U.S. Department of justice to publicly refute the statement of the President of Donald trump, accusing his predecessor of Barack Obama listening to his telephone conversations. About it reports on Sunday, March 5, The New York Times (NYT), citing high-ranking sources in Washington.
A request to the Ministry of justice was sent on Saturday, March 5, after the message of the trump of tapping Twitter. This step of Komi, according to the publication, due to the fact that the statements of the President of the United States cast a shadow on the FBI.
As suggested by Komi, from unsubstantiated allegations trump can be concluded that FBI without the permission of the court has installed listening devices in the building “trump tower” that housed the campaign headquarters of billionaire. If we assume that the FBI had a court order, it means that the Bureau had solid evidence of links team trump with Russia.
In this regard, the Komi Republic has demanded from the Ministry of justice to refute or clarify the allegations trump, however, while the Department has not taken any action on this score, the NYT notes. One of the problems, which runs the risk of the Director of the FBI, due to the fact that the Ministry of justice currently may not be authorized to make such statements, and the Minister, the attorney General Jeff sessions voluntarily recused himself for investigations related to the environment trump with Russia.
The FBI and the U.S. Department of justice has not yet commented on this information.
Earlier the intention to investigate information on possible wiretapping of the team trump the Obama administration said the intelligence Committee of the house of representatives of the Congress of the United States. With a corresponding request addressed to him by the White house.
On March 4 U.S. President Donald trump has accused his predecessor, Barack Obama listening to his residence “trump tower” in new York. “Just found out that Obama tapped telephone conversations in the “trump tower” in front of my victory. Haven’t found anything. This is McCarthyism!” — he wrote on Twitter, adding that the wiretapping was conducted from October 2016.
Obama’s spokesman Kevin Lewis, these accusations were denied.