Since yesterday Barack Obama will be the focus of an investigation by Attorney General William Barr into the alleged campaign espionage to the former White House candidate Donald Trump according to instructions given by the president himself.
On Thursday night, the current president ordered the U.S. intelligence agencies to collaborate with the attorney general in the investigation into the alleged espionage of his campaign in the 2016 presidential elections.
According to a White House statement, Trump ordered “the intelligence community to quickly and fully cooperate with the attorney general’s investigation into surveillance activities during the 2016 presidential election”
“The Attorney General has also been delegated full and complete authority to declassify information pertaining to this investigation, in accordance with the long-established standards for handling classified information” he added.
The request was made on the same day that Democratic speaker Nancy Pelosi said about similar issues, that Trump “is a master of distraction” and that “the President has a bag of tricks” to distract from the important issues.
Pelosi expressed this opinion on Thursday, when she pointed out that the U.S. president, Donald Trump, violates the country’s Constitution, in reference to the alleged cover-up of the president’s documents that the opposition leader denounced on Wednesday.
Trump has repeatedly called for a second investigation into the 2016 presidential election in parallel to the one led by special prosecutor Robert Mueller, which the president considered “presidential harassment” and a “witch-hunt.”
The order according to the White House, “will help ensure that all Americans learn the truth about the events that occurred, and the actions that were taken, during the last Presidential election and will restore confidence in our public institutions”
Trump has insisted that his campaign was spied on before the elections by U.S. intelligence under the former president Barack Obama.
In fact, Barr claimed last month before a congressional committee that there was espionage against members of Trump’s campaign according to the investigations of the so-called Russian plot.
“For the same reason we’re worried about foreign influence in elections, I think spying on a political campaign is a big deal,”Barr told the same committee on April 10.
Shortly afterwards, the Attorney General clarified that he did not mean that “inappropriate surveillance” was applied on Trump’s campaign people but rather that he was trying to find out if it had been so.
Mueller closed his investigation into the Russian plot in March and concluded that neither Trump nor anyone else around him worked with the Kremlin to win the election, although he left the door open to a possible obstruction of justice crime against the president.
Translated by José Espinoza
Noticias Newswire
