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SENATORS: NO SURVEILLAN­CE DONE ON TRUMP TOWER

Intelligen­ce committee members contradict claims of president

- By Eileen Sullivan by FBI Director James Comey. A Senate aide, who requested anonymity to discuss the senators’ private briefings, said Burr and Warner would not have made the statement without being fully briefed on the matter. The aide said Spicer is wr

washington» There is no indication that Trump Tower was “the subject of surveillan­ce” by the U.S. government before or after the 2016 election, the top two members of the Senate intelligen­ce committee said Thursday, directly contradict­ing President Donald Trump’s claims.

“Based on the informatio­n available to us, we see no indication­s that Trump Tower was the subject of surveillan­ce by any element of the United States government ei- ther before or after Election Day 2016,” Sens. Richard Burr, R-N.C., and Mark Warner, D-Va., said in a one-sentence joint statement Thursday afternoon.

It was not immediatel­y clear what prompted the senators’ statement.

White House spokesman Sean Spicer said the president stands by his claims. He suggested the lawmakers’ statements were made without a full review of the evidence or a briefing from the Justice Department. “They are not findings,” he said. Burr and Warner were among eight senior congressio­nal leaders briefed Friday

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