When Donald Trump Tweeted that Obama had ‘wiretapped’ Trump Tower, he apparently got the technical language wrong, but he got the deeper truth correct.
If candidate Trump was not listened to by the US government, he may have been the only person in the world not to be subject to such intrusions on personal liberty.
Speaking to Lou Dobbs, political and legal commentator Judge Andrew Napolitano weighed in to the raging controversy over whether former President Barack Obama could have ordered the wiretapping of Donald Trump and incoming members of his team, such as Sen. Jeff Sessions and Gen. Mike Flynn.
Napolitano said that Obama (as well as any US president) already possessed the authority to wiretap anybody, anytime, anywhere, without any involvement from either the FBI or obtaining a warrant from the top secret FISA court.
Following Saturday’s charges come Sunday’s denials.
On Saturday in a series of tweets Donald Trump accused his predecessor Barack Obama of wiretapping his office in Trump Tower. A few hours later Obama responded with a statement published by his spokesman which neither admitted nor denied the wiretap but which said that Obama himself had never ordered surveillance within the US on anyone.
