Mass surveillance

US intelligence ‘spy on everybody,’ could well have wiretapped Trump – Ron Paul talks FISA memo

Unable to come to terms with losing the 2016 election, Democrats are still pushing the ‘Russiagate’ probe and blocking the release of a memo describing surveillance abuses by the FBI, former Congressman Ron Paul told RT.

A top-secret intelligence memo, believed to reveal political bias at the highest levels of the FBI and the DOJ towards President Trump, may well be as significant as the Republicans say, Ron Paul said. But, he added, “there’s still to many unknowns, especially, from my view point.”

“Trump's connection to the Russians, I think, has been way overblown, and I’d like to just get to the bottom of this new information that’s coming out, maybe this will reveal things and help us out,” he said.

“Right now it’s just a political fight,” the former US Congressman said. “I think they’re dealing with things a lot less important than the issue they ought to be talking about… Right now, I don’t think anybody is seeking justice or seeking truth as much as they’re seeking to get political advantage.”

Trump’s claims that he was wiretapped by US intelligence agencies on the orders of the Obama administration may well turn out to be true, Paul said. “I would be surprised if they haven’t spied on him. They spy on everybody else. And they have spied on other members of the executive branch and other presidents.”