Trump requests congressional probe of alleged Obama wiretapping


White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer on Sunday tweeted President Trump's request for a congressional inquiry into his claim that President Obama inappropriately wiretapped Trump Tower during the 2016 election, an allegation the Obama camp says is "simply false."
As Jon Schwarz at The Intercept notes, the president has the legal authority to declassify anything he wants, so "Trump could immediately make public any government records of such surveillance" on Trump Tower regardless of congressional investigation.
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Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.
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