Clapper denied 1. there were wiretaps on Trump or Trump aides 2. that there had been any warrants obtained.
This naturally makes people believe there has been no surveillance. That would be wrong.
The Flynn conversations and the conversations with the presidents of Mexico and Australia proves there was a tap. The leaking proves there was an attempt to undermine.
Via Daily Caller:
A January 19 New York Times report on wiretap investigations involving the Trump team and Russian officials
stemmed from intercepts picked up overseas that did not require any warrants.
New York Times Public Editor Liz Spayd differentiated the paper’s claims from those of former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, who said that warrants were never obtained to wiretap Trump or his associates.
“I reached out to editors in the Washington bureau to seek their help in clarifying the difference between Clapper’s — and The Times’s — assertions that no warrants had been issued, and the reference to wiretapping in the January story,” Spayd wrote.
“Elisabeth Bumiller, the bureau chief, said the January story was referring to information picked up from wiretaps and other intelligence collected overseas,
a process that requires no warrants.”
http://dailycaller.com/2017/03/08/new-york-times-trump-wiretaps-in-january-report-did-not-need-warrants/
