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U.S. NEWS Monday 20 March 2017

Intel documents offer no evidence of spying on Trump Tower

“We need to get to the bot- received Friday continues Sunday they had seen no
tom of that,” Nunes said. to lead us in that direction.” evidence that the Obama
Nunes and Schiff were Nunes added: “There was administration had placed
among a number of law- no FISA warrant I am aware Trump under surveillance
makers who said on Sun- of to tap Trump Tower.” at Trump Tower, the Man-
day’s news shows they had FISA stands for the Foreign hattan high-rise that houses
seen no evidence that the Intelligence Surveillance Trump’s residence, business
Obama administration or- Act, which requires inves- office and campaign of-
dered wiretaps on Trump tigators to seek a warrant fice. Collins encouraged
during the campaign. from a secret court to wire- Trump to turn whatever evi-
“Was there a physical wire- tap a foreign suspect. dence he has of the surveil-
tap of Trump Tower? No Republican Sens. Tom Cot- lance over to the congres-
there never was,” Nunes ton of Arkansas and Susan sional intelligence panels
said. “The information we Collins of Maine also said looking into the matter. q

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Devin Nunes, R-
Calif., right, accompanied by the committee’s ranking mem-
ber, Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., talks to reporters, on Capitol Hill
in Washington about their investigation of Russian influence on
the American presidential election.
(AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
MICHELE SALCEDO James Comey and Mike
Associated Press Rogers, the director of the
WASHINGTON (AP) — The National Security Agency,
top two lawmakers on the are slated to testify.
House intelligence com- Intelligence officials have
mittee said Sunday that said that Russia was behind
documents the Justice De- the theft of Democratic
partment and FBI delivered National Committee emails
late last week offered no last summer. The U.S. gov-
evidence that the Obama ernment later concluded
administration had wire- that the Russian govern-
tapped Trump Tower, but ment directed the DNC
the panel’s ranking Demo- hack in an attempt to influ-
crat says the material offers ence the outcome of No-
circumstantial evidence vember’s presidential elec-
that American citizens col- tion.
luded with Russians in Mos- “For the first time the Ameri-
cow’s efforts to interfere in can people, and all the po-
the presidential election. litical parties now, are pay-
“There was circumstan- ing attention to the threat
tial evidence of collusion; that Russia poses,” commit-
there is direct evidence, I tee Chairman Devin Nunes,
think, of deception,” Rep. R-Calif., said. “We know
Adam Schiff, D-Calif., said. that the Russians were try-
“There’s certainly enough ing to get involved in our
for us to conduct an inves- campaign, like they have
tigation.” for many decades. They’re
The House intelligence also trying to get involved
committee is to begin in campaigns around the
hearings Monday into Rus- globe and over in Europe.”
sia’s role in cybersecurity Nunes said the committee
breaches at the Demo- will also examine whether
cratic National Committee, the Russians were trying to
as well as President Donald sow doubt in the U.S. elec-
Trump’s unsubstantiated toral system or whether
claim that his predecessor they were trying to help
had authorized a wiretap Trump get elected to the
of Trump Tower. FBI Director White House.