The White House has asked Congress to criminally investigate Barack Obama for unlawfully wiretapping Donald Trump during the 2016 presidential election. According to Trump, the Obama administration abused their executive power as part of a phoney investigation into Russian hacking during the election, with the sole purpose of trying to make Trump lose the presidential race. In response, Obama issued a statement on Saturday claiming that he did not directly order the wiretapping himself: A cardinal rule of the Obama Administration was that no White House official ever interfered with any independent investigation led by the Department of Justice. As part of that practice, neither President Obama nor any White House official ever ordered surveillance of any US citizen. Any suggestion otherwise is simply false. It is interesting to note that Barack Obama’s response does not deny the wiretapping happened. The statement hints than any order to wiretap Donald Trump’s office was the work of officials in the Justice Department, hinting that Obama will seek to shift the blame when he is called to testify in Congress. Rt.com reports: The White House request released on Sunday was directed to “congressional intelligence committees” and required them to “exercise their oversight authority to determine whether executive [...]
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