Justice Department Hands Over Report On Trump's Wiretap Claims

Patrice Gainsbourg

Março 19, 2017

Just a day earlier, House of Representatives Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes told a news conference there was no evidence.

On Friday, the U.S. Justice Department said it had responded to a request by committees in Congress for documents that could shed light on Trump's claim.

Spicer repeated the report, and others, as a way to substantiate Trump's claims that President Obama wiretapped Trump Tower.

The controversy is scheduled to continue into a third week, with Comey set to testify Monday before the House Intelligence Committee.

Nunes in Friday's statement said the National Security Administration and Central Intelligence Agency has not yet provided full information about whether information collected on US citizens was mishandled and leaked.

Trump and the White House have come under scrutiny over the president's claim, which he first made on Twitter on March 4 without presenting evidence.

The intelligence agency was drawn into the controversy when Fox News commentator Andrew Napolitano reported that GCHQ had aided former president Barack Obama in surveilling Trump's calls.

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In one instance, White House adviser Kellyanne Conway said televisions or microwaves could have been used as surveillance cameras - a comment she later said was a joke.

Trump also showed no sign of regret that his press secretary had sparked a controversy, though the President is increasingly isolated over his claims, made without any evidence, that the Obama administration tapped his phones.

President Barack Obama's National Security Advisor Susan Rice suggested in a tweet that the statement may have irreversibly harmed the intelligence gathering relationship with America's greatest ally.

A spokesman for British Prime Minister Theresa May said Friday that the British government made it clear to Spicer that the "ridiculous" claims should be ignored.

When given the opportunity Friday to publicly refute the unfounded report, Trump passed. "I don't think we regret anything", he told reporters. He added: "You shouldn't be talking to me".

The accusations infuriated British officials, prompting an uncommonly vehement denial from Britain's GCHQ intelligence agency and forcing White House spokesmen to back away from earlier statements. "We literally listed a litany of media reports that are in the public domain".