The ignorant bias MSM exemplified by George Stephanopoulos once again BIASED against Trump DEFENDING Obama!!!
The exact words of Sara Huckabee Sanders: “It does back up the fact that the administration was wiretapping American citizens. There is wide reporting.”
Stephanopoulos, however, was having none of it. “I’ve got to stop you,” he said. “That is simply not true.”
The two then sparred over anonymous sources and whether the president accepted the assessments of his intelligence agencies that, in fact, the wiretapping did not occur.
Stephanopoulos insisted that even if a tap occurred, there were important distinctions. George: "There is a world of difference between an illegal wiretap ordered by a president and a court ordered wiretap approved by a federal judge,”
‘That is Simply Not True’: George Stephanopoulos Spars With Trump Surrogate in Feisty Exchange
While it's unknown whether any of these scenarios occurred, it's “very likely that the people in the Obama administration had access to the communication of senior Trump officials in the run-up to the election, because they have very, very broad authority,” said Cindy Cohn, executive director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which has advocated for revising surveillance laws Through routine data collection programs authorized under Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, the government gathers information from the internet backbone, which carries web browsing histories and a rapidly increasing amount of telephone traffic.
The government discards information that is plainly domestic and searches through the rest using only specific selectors — a phone number or email address, for instance. But Americans’ information that is incidentally collected and determined to contain some foreign intelligence value is fair game for review.
Cohn said such data on Americans could include communications that are to, from or about foreign targets the FISA court has already approved for surveillance. For example, if two Trump campaign officials were talking via email about a Moscow official under surveillance, that conversation might get flagged.
How the feds could have listened to Trump’s phone calls