FBI局長否認奧巴馬監聽特朗普

President Donald Trump is siding with rightwing news outlets over his own FBI director in a dispute over unsubstantiated claims that former President Barack Obama ordered the wiretapping of Mr Trump during last year’s election.

有關美國前總統巴拉克?奧巴馬(Barack Obama)去年大選期間曾下令監聽唐納德?特朗普(Donald Trump)的這一未被證實的指控引發了一場爭議，特朗普總統站在右翼新聞網站的一邊，而不同意自己政府中的聯邦調查局(FBI)局長的說法。

Sarah Huckabee Sanders, a White House spokeswoman, said on Monday that the president does not accept FBI director James Comey’s dismissal of Mr Trump’s weekend claim that Mr Obama had tapped the phones at the Trump Tower in Manhattan.

白宮女發言人薩拉?哈克比?桑德斯(Sarah Huckabee Sanders)週一表示，特朗普不接受FBI局長詹姆斯?科米(James Comey)對其上週末指控的反駁——特朗普上週末在Twitter上發帖稱，奧巴馬曾下令監聽曼哈頓特朗普大廈(Trump Tower)的電話。

“You know, I don’t think he does,” she said on ABC’s Good Morning America programme.

桑德斯在美國廣播公司(ABC)《早安美國》(Good Morning America)節目中表示：“你們知道的，我認爲他不會接受（科米的反駁）。”

Mr Trump made his extraordinary claim in a Saturday morning tweetstorm following a report on Breitbart News, the conservative website formerly run by Steve Bannon, his chief White House strategist. The Breitbart story summarised allegations by Mark Levin, a conservative talk radio host, who says Mr Obama used “police state” tactics to undermine the Trump presidency.

在Breitbart News發表一篇報道之後，特朗普於上週六上午在Twitter上發文提出了不同尋常的指控。Breitbart News是一個持保守派立場的新聞網站，之前由特朗普的首席戰略師史蒂夫?班農(Steve Bannon)運營。這篇報道中概述了保守派電臺訪談類節目主持人馬克?萊文(Mark Levin)提出的指控，後者表示，奧巴馬使用“警察國家”手段來阻止特朗普當選總統。

Through a spokesman, Mr Obama denied the new president’s wiretapping claim. Neither the Department of Justice nor the FBI will comment on reports that Mr Comey asked senior DoJ officials on Saturday to publicly rebut Mr Trump’s claim as false.

奧巴馬通過發言人否認了特朗普對其的指控。有報道稱，科米在上週六要求美國司法部高級官員公開宣稱特朗普的指控是錯誤的。司法部和FBI均不會對這些報道置評。

The DoJ must obtain a warrant from the secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court before placing a communications wiretap. Between 2010 and 2015, the court granted more than 9,500 warrant applications without rejecting one, according to DoJ records.

司法部在實施通訊監聽活動前必須獲得行事隱祕的外國情報監視法庭(Fisc)的監聽令。司法部的紀錄顯示，從2010年到2015年，該法庭覈准了逾9500份監聽申請，一份也沒有拒絕。

Outside the White House, there was little support for the president’s allegation that he had been illegally wiretapped. “The president was angry and harried and just said something inflammatory based on a misunderstanding of a third-hand summary of questionable press reports,” said Julian Sanchez, a Cato Institute expert on government surveillance programmes.

在白宮以外，幾乎沒有人支持特朗普關於其被非法監聽的說法。加圖研究所(Cato Institute)政府監聽項目專家朱利安?桑切斯(Julian Sanchez)表示：“總統既憤怒又煩惱，而且他只是因爲誤解了對有問題的媒體報道的第三手總結就說了一些煽動性的話。”

Devin Nunes, Republican chairman of the House intelligence committee, plans to evaluate the president’s assertion as part of its probe of alleged Russian efforts to influence the 2016 presidential campaign.

美國衆議院情報委員會主席、共和黨議員戴文?努內斯(Devin Nunes)計劃評估總統的這一指控，作爲其對俄羅斯是否試圖影響2016年美國總統大選的調查的一部分。

But other Republicans were sceptical. Jason Chaffetz, chairman of the House oversight and government reform committee, told CBS on Monday: “Thus far I have not seen anything directly that would support what the president has said.”

但其他共和黨人持懷疑態度。美國衆議院監督和政府改革委員會主席賈森?查菲茨(Jason Chaffetz)週一向哥倫比亞廣播公司(CBS)表示：“迄今爲止，我沒有直接看到任何支持特朗普指控的證據。”

Democrats, meanwhile, are demanding that the DoJ name a special prosecutor to investigate alleged ties between Trump campaign aides and Russia. The White House has denied any such links with Ms Sanders saying the press is peddling a “false narrative that there are connections between the Trump campaign and the Russians.”

與此同時，民主黨人正要求司法部任命一個特別檢察官調查特朗普競選助手與俄羅斯之間的聯繫。白宮方面否認存在此類聯繫，桑德斯表示，媒體正兜售“關於特朗普競選團隊與俄羅斯人勾結的錯誤說法”。

Senate Minority leader Chuck Schumer has said that he will press Rod Rosenstein, who has been nominated to be deputy attorney-general, to commit to appointing a special prosecutor to investigate Mr Trump’s alleged Russia links. Mr Rosenstein, US attorney in Baltimore, is scheduled to testify on Tuesday before the Senate judiciary committee, which is considering his nomination.

參議院少數黨領袖查克?舒默(Chuck Schumer)表示，他將對被提名爲司法部副部長的羅德?羅森斯坦(Rod Rosenstein)施壓，要求他承諾任命一位特別檢察官調查特朗普與俄羅斯之間有無聯繫的事情。羅森斯坦是巴爾的摩的一名律師，將於本週二向正在考慮其提名的參議院司法委員會做證詞發言。

If confirmed as the department’s second-ranking official, Mr Rosenstein will assume responsibility for Russia-related investigations. Attorney-general Jeff Sessions, under fire for misleading Congress about his own contacts with the Russian ambassador to the US, recused himself last week from any “existing or future investigations of any matters related in any way to the campaigns for President of the United States.”

羅森斯坦如果被確認爲司法部排名第二的官員，就會負責與俄羅斯相關的調查。美國司法部長傑夫?塞申斯(Jeff Sessions)因未如實向國會披露他自己與俄羅斯駐美大使的會晤而遭受抨擊，上週被迫自請回避“當下或未來針對美國總統競選活動相關事宜的調查”。

Another judiciary committee Democrat, Senator Richard Blumenthal, has vowed to “use every possible tool” to block Mr Rosenstein’s nomination until he promises to name a special prosecutor.

司法委員會的另一位民主黨人、參議員理查德?布盧門撒爾(Richard Blumenthal)發誓要“動用所有可能的手段”來阻止羅森斯坦的提名獲批，直至後者承諾任命一個特別檢察官。

On Monday, Mr Schumer also called for the DoJ’s independent inspector-general to investigate whether the White House has interfered with the investigation of the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia. “We need to ensure that the investigation is impartial, and hasn’t already been compromised in any way by the Trump administration,” Mr Schumer wrote to Michael Horowtiz, the DoJ’s inspector-general.

週一，舒默還呼籲司法部獨立的監察長調查白宮是否干預對特朗普競選團隊與俄羅斯聯繫的調查。舒默在寫給美國司法部監察長邁克爾?霍洛維茨(Michael Horowtiz)的信中表示：“我們需要確保調查是公正的，沒有受到特朗普政府任何方式的影響。”