#FakeNews: Media Retracts Claim Michael Cohen Was "Wiretapped;" Now Says Only The Numbers Coming In Or Dialing Out Were Captured

That is, a pen register, not a tap.

This means that Mueller could not have learned that "Cohen was about to destroy evidence," unless he can psychically infer that from a phone number.

Ken Dilanian has so much heat you'd think he's fusion.

I'm old enough to remember when the media freaked out when Trump said his office was wiretapped but it turned out no, only surveillance orders for people in his orbit, some in Trump Tower, were handed out.

Think the media will similarly rap itself for its own loose language with the term "wiretap"?

I don't. I think they'll forgive that little problem with #FakeNews they have all the time.

By the way: Giuliani predicted this.

President Donald Trump's lawyer Rudy Giuliani said on Thursday he doubted the veracity of a bombshell NBC News report from earlier in the day that federal authorities wiretapped the president's longtime counsel, Michael Cohen.

"Us lawyers have talked about it, we don't believe it’s true," Giuliani told The Daily Beast. "We think it's going to turn out to be untrue because it would be totally illegal. You can't wiretap a lawyer, you certainly can't wiretap his client who's not involved in the investigation. No one has suggested that Trump was involved in that investigation. So they're going to wiretap the lawyer, his client, and his client the president of the United States? I don't think so, not if they want to stay out of jail. Disclosing a wiretap is a federal felony. I never took 'em home when I was a U.S. attorney."

posted by Ace of Spades at 06:57 PM

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