Trump stands by Obama wiretap charge, shrugs off row with Britain -- Reuters

[bsteadman]

Trump stands by Obama wiretap charge, shrugs off row with Britain

Reuters
by By Jeff Mason and Mark Hosenball | WASHINGTON
3/17/2017

Excerpt:

U.S. President Donald Trump stood by unproven claims on Friday that the Obama administration tapped his phones during the 2016 White House race and shrugged off a dispute with Britain over the notion their spy agency had a hand in it.

British Prime Minister Theresa May's spokesman earlier in the day dismissed the charge against Britain's GCHQ spy agency as "ridiculous" and said the White House had promised not to repeat it.

But at a news conference Trump brushed aside a question about whether it was a mistake to accuse British intelligence of eavesdropping.

"We said nothing. All we did was quote a certain very talented legal mind who was the one responsible for saying that on television. I didn't make an opinion on it," Trump said.

He was referring to Fox News analyst Andrew Napolitano who on Tuesday accused Britain's Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) intelligence agency of having helped Obama, a Democrat, wiretap Trump, a Republican.

White House spokesman Sean Spicer on Thursday quoted Napolitano's comments about GCHQ during a testy briefing with reporters.

But speaking at the White House news conference, with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, at his side, Trump distanced himself.

"That was a statement made by a very talented lawyer on Fox, and so you shouldn't be talking to me, you should be talking to Fox. OK?" Trump said while standing by his initial charge that the previous U.S. administration eavesdropped on him.

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Oops! CNN accidentally confirms story that Brit intell passed along Trump communications to Obama admin

American Thinker
by Thomas Lifson
3/20/2017

Excerpt:

Lawyers are trained never to ask a question of a witness if they don’t already know the answer. But it is quite different in journalism – at least in principle, if the principle is getting at the truth. But alas, in these days of fake news and fanatical dead-ender opposition to President Trump, those MSM TV networks committed to driving Trump from office might want to consider retraining for their talking heads. Make them more like lawyers and avoid embarrassnents like that suffered by CNN’s Brian Stelter.

Courtesy of Grabien, here is a disastrous interview in which the guest, Larry Johnson, confirmed the story that Judge Andrew Napolitano told on-air about British intelligence passing along surveillance data involving the Trump administration.
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[bsteadman]

See the thread - "CIA Dirty Cyber Tricks" started 3/9/2017

InspectorSmith Forum

Link - https://www.wasobamaborninkenya.com/...y-cyber-tricks

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My comment: Did our own CIA use their dirty-tricks capability to falsely 'plant' the origin of the wiretapping of the trump tower in the fall of 2016 on British Intelligence? This would explain why the British are sincere in denying the claim. Very complicated indeed!

[bsteadman]

Judge Napolitano pulled from Fox News airwaves

American Thinker / Blog
by Thomas Lifson
3/21/2017

Excerpt:

The MSM are exultant. They imagine Judge Andrew Napolitano's metaphorical (and distinctive) scalp hanging on a peg somewhere. A taboo has been established and enforced.

John Koblin of the New York Times deadpans:

Andrew Napolitano, the senior legal analyst for Fox News, has been temporarily sidelined following his unproved assertion last week that former President Barack Obama had asked for British assistance in spying on Donald J. Trump, a person briefed on the decision said on Monday.

Mr. Napolitano did not appear on Fox on Monday, even though there were two news events that normally would have called for his services: hearings involving the F.B.I. director James B. Comey, and the Supreme Court nominee Neil M. Gorsuch.

Mr. Comey's hearing touched on Judge Napolitano's allegation – which both President Trump and his press secretary, Sean Spicer, repeated – that British intelligence officers wiretapped Mr. Trump at Mr. Obama's request.

It is not clear how long Mr. Napolitano will be off the air, but his absence from Fox's airwaves on Monday was an indication that the network was not pleased with the unwanted attention focused on his unfounded allegations.

The Los Angeles Times reported Mr. Napolitano's absence on Monday. Fox News declined to comment.

Last week, Mr. Napolitano, a former New Jersey Superior Court judge, reported on the morning show "Fox and Friends" that the Obama administration had asked British intelligence to wiretap Mr. Trump during the 2016 presidential campaign.

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