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During the course of that wiretap investigation, the evidence led us to Timothy Granison. – Sandra Doorley	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
For a long time we've been told there was some kind of infiltration, at one time, the president thought it was a wiretap. – Rudolph Giuliani	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Us lawyers have talked about it, we don't believe it's true, we think it's going to turn out to be untrue because it would be totally illegal. You can't wiretap a lawyer, you certainly can't wiretap his client who's not involved in the investigation. No one has suggested that President Donald Trump was involved in that investigation. So they're going to wiretap the lawyer, his client, and his client the president of the United States ? I don't think so, not if they want to stay out of jail. Disclosing a wiretap is a federal felony. I never took'em home when I was The US attorney. – The US attorney	Found on CNN 5 years ago
The president doesn’t go and physically wiretap something, but the other issue out there is the unmasking of names, the leaking of names. That happened to [former National Security Adviser] Michael Flynn. The concern we have is: Are there any other surveillance activities in the unmasking of names? – Devin Nunes	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
We need to figure out what happened here, there's a lot of unanswered question. I just don't want anybody jumping to any conclusion on any side of this, other than the fact that we know that Obama didn't physically wiretap Trump Tower, but everything else is still ... there's a lot of unknowns. – Devin Nunes	Found on CNN 7 years ago
We have not seen any evidence that there was a wiretap or a (Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act) court order against Trump Tower or somebody in Trump Tower. – Paul Ryan	Found on CNN 7 years ago
Wiretap covers a lot of different things, i think you're going to find some very interesting items coming to the forefront over the next two weeks. – Donald Trump	Found on CNN 7 years ago
The intelligence committees, in their continuing, widening, ongoing investigations of all things Russia, got to the bottom -- at least so far with respect to our intelligence community -- that no such wiretap existed. – Paul Ryan	Found on CNN 7 years ago
Frankly, we have a lot right now, but wiretap covers a lot of different things. I think you're going to find some very interesting items coming to the forefront over the next two weeks. – Donald Trump	Found on CNN 7 years ago
For the part of the national security apparatus that I oversaw as DNI, there was no such wiretap activity mounted against the President, the president-elect at the time, or as a candidate, or against his campaign. – National Intelligence James Clapper	Found on CNN 7 years ago
For the part of the national security apparatus that I oversaw as DNI, there was no such wiretap activity mounted against the President-elect at the time, or as a candidate, or against his campaign. – National Intelligence James Clapper	Found on CNN 7 years ago
For the part of the national security apparatus that I oversaw as DNI, there was no wiretap activity mounted against the President-elect at the time, or as a candidate, or against his campaign. – James Clapper	Found on CNN 7 years ago
This was illegal, only the Supreme Court has the authority to wiretap a president. – Dilma Rousseff	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The way the Superfish functionality appears to work means that they must be intercepting traffic in order to insert the ads, this amounts to a wiretap. – Eric Rand	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
When you have a wiretap on someone you pick up all sorts of dreck. But in terms of the political history that ironically the FBI has created for us, it's a wonderful resource. – David Garrow	Found on CNN 9 years ago

During the course of that wiretap investigation, the evidence led us to Timothy Granison.

– Sandra Doorley

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

For a long time we've been told there was some kind of infiltration, at one time, the president thought it was a wiretap.

– Rudolph Giuliani

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Us lawyers have talked about it, we don't believe it's true, we think it's going to turn out to be untrue because it would be totally illegal. You can't wiretap a lawyer, you certainly can't wiretap his client who's not involved in the investigation. No one has suggested that President Donald Trump was involved in that investigation. So they're going to wiretap the lawyer, his client, and his client the president of the United States ? I don't think so, not if they want to stay out of jail. Disclosing a wiretap is a federal felony. I never took'em home when I was The US attorney.

– The US attorney

Found on CNN
5 years ago

The president doesn’t go and physically wiretap something, but the other issue out there is the unmasking of names, the leaking of names. That happened to [former National Security Adviser] Michael Flynn. The concern we have is: Are there any other surveillance activities in the unmasking of names?

– Devin Nunes

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

We need to figure out what happened here, there's a lot of unanswered question. I just don't want anybody jumping to any conclusion on any side of this, other than the fact that we know that Obama didn't physically wiretap Trump Tower, but everything else is still ... there's a lot of unknowns.

– Devin Nunes

Found on CNN
7 years ago

We have not seen any evidence that there was a wiretap or a (Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act) court order against Trump Tower or somebody in Trump Tower.

– Paul Ryan

Found on CNN
7 years ago

Wiretap covers a lot of different things, i think you're going to find some very interesting items coming to the forefront over the next two weeks.

– Donald Trump

Found on CNN
7 years ago

The intelligence committees, in their continuing, widening, ongoing investigations of all things Russia, got to the bottom -- at least so far with respect to our intelligence community -- that no such wiretap existed.

– Paul Ryan

Found on CNN
7 years ago

Frankly, we have a lot right now, but wiretap covers a lot of different things. I think you're going to find some very interesting items coming to the forefront over the next two weeks.

– Donald Trump

Found on CNN
7 years ago

For the part of the national security apparatus that I oversaw as DNI, there was no such wiretap activity mounted against the President, the president-elect at the time, or as a candidate, or against his campaign.

– National Intelligence James Clapper

Found on CNN
7 years ago

For the part of the national security apparatus that I oversaw as DNI, there was no such wiretap activity mounted against the President-elect at the time, or as a candidate, or against his campaign.

– National Intelligence James Clapper

Found on CNN
7 years ago

For the part of the national security apparatus that I oversaw as DNI, there was no wiretap activity mounted against the President-elect at the time, or as a candidate, or against his campaign.

– James Clapper

Found on CNN
7 years ago

This was illegal, only the Supreme Court has the authority to wiretap a president.

– Dilma Rousseff

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The way the Superfish functionality appears to work means that they must be intercepting traffic in order to insert the ads, this amounts to a wiretap.

– Eric Rand

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

When you have a wiretap on someone you pick up all sorts of dreck. But in terms of the political history that ironically the FBI has created for us, it's a wonderful resource.

– David Garrow

Found on CNN
9 years ago

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