James @Comey: "I've never thought of" electronic surveillance as "spying"
@Comey Comey: ‘I’ve Never Thought of’ Electronic Surveillance of Trump Campaign as ‘Spying’ news.grabien.com/story-comey-iv…
May 22, 2018: Clapper says Trump "should be happy" his campaign was being spied on.
We "were spying on — a term I don’t particularly like — on what the Russians were doing, trying to understand were the Russians infiltrating, trying to gain access, trying to gain leverage."
We "were spying on — a term I don’t particularly like — on what the Russians were doing, trying to understand were the Russians infiltrating, trying to gain access, trying to gain leverage."
Clapper, May 21, 2018: The FBI uses "informants and have strict rules and protocols on this. But the big thing here is this is not about spying on his campaign, it’s about what the Russians are doing."
Clapper, May 29, 2018: "The objective is what were the Russians attempting to do, if anything, to infiltrate and influence a political campaign? That was the objective, not to spy on the campaign per se.”
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