WASHINGTON — On a day that saw President Donald Trump's nominee to head the Central Intelligence Agency gain crucial Senate support, one critic demanded to know whether the nation's spy agency conducted surveillance on the president during the 2016 election.
In a letter to CIA director-nominee Gina Haspel, Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., asked for information on the agency's activities during the 2016 presidential campaign, specifically whether Trump was being monitored during overseas travel.
“It is supposed to be illegal for the CIA to spy on Americans – so the question is did John Brennan ask the British intelligence to spy on Americans for him? Did he ask them to spy on President Trump’s campaign?” Paul said of the former CIA Director in an interview with NBC News.
The letter asks for “clarification” on CIA practices on monitoring presidential candidates and what Hapsel knew about the topic.
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“The president is very concerned about this,” Paul said. “And I think my concern is Gina Haspel has been in the very highest ranking in the CIA, Did she know anything about it? So I sent a letter to Gina Haspel asking her did the CIA eavesdrop on the Trump campaign when they were in England?”
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