The top Republicans investigating Russia's interference in
the US election declined to back up President Donald Trump's claims
that then-President Barack Obama wiretapped his Manhattan headquarters last
year -- leaving the White House on its own to explain the stunning allegation.
When pressed on whether he believed Trump's allegations,
House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes -- one of Trump's strongest supporters
in the House and a member of his transition team -- brushed aside the
President's allegations.
"A lot of the things he says, you guys take
literally," Nunes told reporters Tuesday. Nunes later hedged his comments
and said that former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn may have been
wiretapped and that Trump had raised "valid questions" about how his
aides were listened in on.
Across the Capitol, Senate Intelligence Chairman Richard
Burr, who is leading a concurrent investigation into Russia's interference,
said he had not seen any evidence of Trump's claims.
"We're going to go anywhere there is intelligence or
facts that send us," Burr told CNN. "So I'm not going to limit it one
way or the other. But we don't have anything today that would send us in that
direction, but that's not to say that we might not find something."
Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2017/03/07/politics/wiretap-congress-sean-spicer-response/index.html
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