FBI局長反駁川普有關奧巴馬監聽的指控
FBI Director James Comey has debunked President Donald Trump's explosive claim that former President Barack Obama wiretapped him in the weeks before last year's presidential election.
At a hearing before the House of Representatives Intelligence Committee Monday, Comey also confirmed that his agency is investigating whether Trump campaign aides criminally colluded with Russian interests to help him win.
"I have no information that supports (Trump's) tweets" claiming that Obama eavesdropped on him at his Trump Tower headquarters in New York, Comey said.
Despite that statement, White House spokesman Sean Spicer later said Trump will not withdraw his wiretapping allegation. "We've started a hearing, it's still ongoing," Spicer said. "There's a lot of areas that still need to be covered. There's a lot of information that still needs to be discussed."
Comey told the panel that because the counter-intelligence investigation of Russian efforts to interfere in the U.S. election is classified, "I cannot say more about what we are doing and whose conduct we are examining." He said congressional leaders have been briefed behind closed doors.
But Comey said he has been authorized by the Justice Department to confirm that the FBI probe "includes investigating the nature of any links between individuals associated with the Trump campaign and the Russian government, and whether there was any coordination between the campaign and Russia's efforts."
Hours earlier, Trump derided any suggestion that his campaign colluded with Russian interests to help him win the White House, saying it was an excuse "made up" by Democrats for losing the election.美國聯邦調查局局長詹姆斯·科米反駁了川普總統提出的前總統奧巴馬在去年總統大選投票前幾個星期對他進行竊聽的爆炸性說法。
在週一衆議院情報委員會聽證會上，科米還證實，聯邦調查局正在就川普競選團隊助理們是否與俄羅斯利益集團合謀，幫助川普贏得大選進行調查。
科米表示，“我們沒有任何信息支持川普推文”中所說奧巴馬在川普競選總部紐約市的川普大廈對他進行竊聽的說法。
儘管科米提出這一聲明，白宮發言人斯派塞後來仍表示，川普不會撤回他的指稱。斯派塞說，“我們已經開始了聽證會，目前仍在進行中。”他說，“還有很多領域需要覆蓋，有很多信息需要討論。＂
科米告訴情報委員會，由於針對俄羅斯染指美國大選的反情報調查屬於機密，“我不能更具體地談論我們正在做的工作和我們正在調查哪些人的行爲。”他說，國會領導人已經在閉門會議中被告知相關情況。
但是科米說，他得到了司法部的授權，可以證實聯邦調查局的調查內容“包括川普競選團隊的有關人員與俄羅斯政府之間聯繫的性質，以及這個團隊與俄羅斯的行爲之間是否存在某種配合。
科米作證之前幾個小時，川普譏諷有關他的競選團隊爲了獲得大選的勝利而與俄羅斯利益集團有共謀的說法。川普說，這是民主黨爲自己敗選而製造的藉口。
