Tornado Alley (PROG)

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Ok .. i see now how Mr Clapper's "there was no such" suggests to mean no Obama directed or WH
originated .. i missed that as i thought the couldn't have been by Obama was pretty well settled before ..

The revelation of Comey's request capped off a weekend in which Trump made a series of unsubstantiated claims about illegal wiretapping, while Democrats said he was trying to change the subject from the ongoing investigation of Russian interference in last year's election. Through a spokesman Saturday, Obama denied wiretapping Trump, and on Sunday, former director of national intelligence James Clapper said he knew of no effort to seek wiretaps against Trump during his tenure.

Speaking on NBC’s Meet the Press, Clapper said “there was no such wiretap activity mounted against the president-elect at the time, as a candidate or against his campaign.”

Pressed on whether he would know whether the FBI had obtained a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court order to wiretap the Trump campaign, Clapper said he would have known and that none existed “to my knowledge,” and none was authorized for Trump Tower, the president’s campaign headquarters last year.
.. repeat the link .. http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2017/03/05/former-dni-james-clapper-says-trump-claim-wiretap-false/98776448/

.. it's that last paragraph i think suggests in the end he was saying no FBI wire tap of any sort on Trump or his campaign 'as far as he knew' ..
not 100%, but .. and i think his 'as far as he knew' is a perfectly reasonable 'in case' to leave .. thanks for telling me of his reputation