Obama Press Secretary Doesn’t Deny Trump Was Wiretapped, Doesn’t Deny Obama Got Intel

(CNSNews.com) — When asked whether he could “categorically deny” that the Obama Justice Department had sought and obtained a FISA court order to wiretap the Trump presidential campaign, former Obama Press Secretary Josh Earnest would not deny it and, when pressed, said he did not know whether it had occurred.

Earnest also would not say whether President Obama had been given surveillance information taken from Trump Tower in New York City.

As a guest on the March 5 edition of ABC’s This Week, Josh Earnest began his comments by stating, “Let me just remove the mystery here and explain to you and your viewers why it is false to say that President Obama ordered a wiretap of Trump Tower.”

He then explained that the president cannot personally order a wiretap on a private citizen and that there are procedures that must be followed with the FBI and the FISA court.

Host Martha Raddatz then said, “We know about that denial from President Obama and the law as well. As President Obama’s former speechwriter, Jon Favreau, your former colleague, tweeted: ‘I’d be careful about reporting that Obama said there was no wiretapping. Statement just said that neither he nor the White House ordered it.’ Can you categorically deny that the Obama Justice Department did not seek and obtain a FISA court order?”

Earnest answered, “What I can categorically deny, Martha, is that the White House was at all involved in directing or interfering or influencing an FBI investigation of any sort.”

Raddatz then said, “That’s not what I’m asking. What I’m asking is, can you deny that the Obama Justice Department did not seek and obtain a FISA court-ordered wiretap of the Trump campaign?”

Earnest then replied, “It was a cardinal rule — here’s the simple answer to that question, is, Martha, I don’t know. And it’s not because I’m no longer in government. The fact is, even when I was in government, I was not in a position of being regularly briefed on an FBI criminal or counterintelligence investigation.”

“The White House — no one at the White House, including the president of the United States, should be in a position in which they’re trying to influence or dictate how that investigation is being conducted,” he said. full story

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