RETRACTED report that feds wiretapped Michael Cohen and snooped on a White House call

superbeets · May 3, 2018

[h=1]Rudy Giuliani tells Jeff Sessions to investigate the investigators! Trump's new lawyer demands AG must step in following RETRACTED report that feds wiretapped Michael Cohen and snooped on a White House call[/h]

NBC News reported that federal investigators tapped Michael Cohen's phones for weeks leading up to the April 9 raid on his home, office and hotel room
The wiretaps appeared to supplement warrants that had already let federal agents sift through Cohen's emails
NBC later retracted that report, saying the feds were keeping a 'pen register' of calls made to and from Cohen's phones – but not actually listening to them
The lawyer for a porn star who claims she slept with President Trump went out on a limb when he thought the wiretap story was accurate
Michael Avenatti said the FBI likely rushed the raid on Cohen because they heard him talking about destroying evidence
Rudy Giuliani warned president not to talk with Cohen on the phone because the FBI might be listening in
But later he said he didn't believe the wiretap was real, since the FBI 'can’t wiretap a lawyer'
He exploded on Thursday, blaming Special Counsel Robert Mueller's office for leaking what should have been a sealed court order
Giuliani demanded Attorney General Jeff Sessions step in and put the people probing Cohen 'under investigation' themselves

superbeets · May 3, 2018

Rudy Giuliani came out swinging Thursday following a report – later retracted – that federal investigators had tapped phones belonging to President Donald Trump's former personal lawyer Michael Cohen.
NBC News reported that the wiretaps were in place during the weeks before agents raided Cohen's home, offices and hotel room on April 9.
But the network later walked its story back, broadcasting an update on MSNBC that read: 'Correction: Feds are monitoring, not listening to Cohen's calls.'
Giuliani, the former New York City mayor who is the president's newest legal spokesman, was furious that the news was leaked at all, and had said Attorney General Jeff Sessions should intervene and put the people behind the Cohen probe 'under investigation.'
'I am waiting for the attorney general to step in, in his role as defender of justice, and put these people under investigation,' Giuliani told The Hill, a Washington, D.C. newspaper.
He predicted the president would be outraged by the prospect of the FBI listening to private conversations with the man who was recently his attorney, and conceded that he would have to tell Trump that 'the Department of Justice seems to want to trample all over the Constitution of the United States.'
Ultimately, Giuliani said in a separate interview, he doesn't believe there was a wiretap – even though prosecutors in New York have already said in court filings that they had also obtained warrants to sift through Cohen's email accounts.
Giuliani was technically right.

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Rudy Giuliani accused Special Counsel Robert Mueller's office of leaking information about a federal wiretap warrant on Michael Cohen's phones, but correctly claimed the 'tap' wasn't real – and then called on Attorney General Jeff Sessions to intervene anyway and investigate the investigators

superbeets · May 3, 2018

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NBC News reported that Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump's former longtime personal attorney, was the subject of a wiretap warrant before the April 9 raid on his room at the Loews Hotel (shown), his home and his offices; the network later changed its story

superbeets · May 3, 2018

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Following a frenzied day-long news cycle, NBC News corrected its reporting to reflect that the federal government was keeping a record of calls to and from Cohen's phones, but not actually snooping on who was speaking or what was being said

superbeets · May 3, 2018

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Cohen's home in New York City's Trump Park Avenue building was swept up in the federal raid, following what was thought to be weeks of phone surveillance

superbeets · May 3, 2018

'Us lawyers have talked about it, we don’t believe it’s true,' he told The Daily Beast, referring to the wiretap story.

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Cohen has offices at 30 Rockefeller Center; that space was raided along with his home and hotel room

'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 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. [And] disclosing a wiretap is a federal felony.'
NBC News reporter Tom Winter, who broke the corrected story, appeared on MSNBC to clarify that investigators were keeping track of calls made to and from Cohen's phones – but not hearing what was said.
'We reported that there was a wiretap on Michael Cohen's phone, meaning that they were able to listen in to conversations,' Winter explained.
'Now three senior U.S. officials are telling us that ... it was not a wiretap. Instead it was what is referred to as a "pen register." In plain English that means it's a log of phone calls that were made from a specific phone line or specific phone lines.'
Winter cautioned that the weaker form of surveillance on a personal lawyer affiliated with the President of the United States 'doesn't change the legal bar, here, to get a warrant of this type. It's still a very serious matter.'
Giuliani had earlier blasted Special Counsel Robert Mueller's office for what he said was an inappropriate and illegal leak about what should have been a sealed court order.
'Look at all of the bad faith we’re seeing here. And whether this wiretap story is true or not true, it’s bad faith to leak it,' he said.
'We should find out about this with a notification from the Justice Department, they’re wiretapping the President of the United States, they’re wiretapping a man talking to his lawyer and then they want us to cooperate? We’re not suckers.'

superbeets · May 3, 2018

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What started as a report of a wiretap later became a milder story about a 'pen register' that tracks metadata about calling numbers, the length of calls and when they occurred

superbeets · May 3, 2018

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Cohen was photographed Thursday walking to a Manhattanhotel where he maintains a room

superbeets · May 3, 2018

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Michael Avenatti, the combative attorney representing pornographic actress Stormy Daniels, said on MSNBC that was likely the FBI raided Cohen quickly because federal agents heard him in a phone call discussion the destruction of evidence. NBC news later retracted its report, saying there was no live surveillance of Cohen's calls

superbeets · May 3, 2018

It's still not clear who provided NBC News with the information about a live wiretap, which the network corrected hours later.
Michael Avenatti, the lawyer representing the porn star at the center of the hush-money controversy that has ensnared Cohen, had said hours earlier that agents listening to Cohen's calls likely heard him discussing the possibility of destroying evidence – prompting them to carry our their no-knock warrant last month.
That, he said, explained why they raided Cohen's home, hotel and office instead of merely subpoenaing his files, emails and phone data.
The news from NBC briefly injected a new degree of gravity into Cohen's legal jeopardy, and opened wider the range of materials the FBI might have at the ready to connect the president to an infamous $130,000 hush-money payment to a porn star who claims she slept with a then-married Trump.
NBC had reported that the feds intercepted at least one phone call between a Cohen-linked phone number and the White House. With the network's correction later in the day, that appeared implausible.
Such a call could have connected Cohen to anyone at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
According to NBC, the president had called Cohen once after the FBI raid but then cut off all communications with him – because Giuliani warned him that the bureau could be snooping.
Cohen has acknowledged making a $130,000 payment during the waning weeks of the 2016 presidential campaign to Stephanie Clifford, who acts in pornographic movies under the stage name Stormy Daniels.
Daniels had claimed she had a sexual affair with Donald Trump a decade earlier, when future first lady Melania Trump had recently given birth to their son Barron.

superbeets · May 3, 2018

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The National Enquirer is a supermarket tabloid run by longtime Trump friend David Pecker; its recent attack on Cohen may have been a warning shot to intimidate him out of 'flipping' on the president as the special counsel circles overhead

Cohen's payment was part of a nondisclosure agreement that Daniels has since flouted, claiming it's invalid because Trump himself never signed it.
Ethics watchdogs have speculated that Cohen could be indicted for violating campaign finance law if there's proof the money changed hands as part of a strategy to save the president's election hopes.
Giuliani said Wednesday night that Cohen paid the money out of his own funds in order to save Trump from personal embarrassment and divorce, and revealed that Trump had later reimbursed the funds as part of a months-long legal retainer.
Daniels' combative lawyer Michael Avenatti said Thursday on MSNBC that federal investigators' tentacles were likely longer than they appear.
'I don't think we're going to find out that this was confined just to emails or voice wiretaps. I think they also – my understanding is that they were also wiretapping text-message communications for the weeks leading up to the FBI raids,' he said.

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Giuliani is blaming Special Counsel Robert Mueller's office for the leak that led to Thursday's feeding frenzy about a possible wiretap capturing Cohen's phone calls for weeks before the FBI raided him

Willie99 · May 4, 2018

Rudy's a nonsense pit bull, perfect for dealing with both the swamp and their flock of brain dead fucking idiots

GasMan · May 4, 2018

Im a little behind on this story due to a heavy work load....so more wiretapping of Trump? unfortunately for the Dems cannot be used in evidence as Trump was not the targer. Shocker the leaks have been retracted.

Greenbacks · May 4, 2018

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Greenbacks · May 13, 2018

:toast:

Willie99 · May 13, 2018

superbeets said:
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Following a frenzied day-long news cycle, NBC News corrected its reporting to reflect that the federal government was keeping a record of calls to and from Cohen's phones, but not actually snooping on who was speaking or what was being said

talk about changing stories, whatever lie the democrats need, their criminal corrupt colluding media delivers

and the fucking idiots swallow without reflex, consistently proving to us they have a ten second soundbite knowledge base

Greenbacks · May 13, 2018

Chuck Todd is a piece of garbage

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