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Byline: Karina Tsui Recent revelations that Greek intelligence tapped an opposition leader's phone have left the embattled prime minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, struggling to fend off a mounting scandal ahead of [...]

Byline: Ronald G. Shafer The hottest TV show in the summer of 1973 was the U.S. Senate's version of the popular quiz show 'Truth or Consequences.' In place of Bob [...]

Byline: Loveday Morris;Luisa Beck;Rick Noack BERLIN -- The far-right Alternative for Germany party denounced Wednesday steps by the country's domestic intelligence agency to place it under watch for suspected extremist [...]

Byline: Editorial Board THE FOREIGN Intelligence Surveillance Act, adopted in 1978, brought federal government wiretapping and other covert executive branch anti-espionage and anti-terrorism methods under the shared supervision of Congress [...]

Byline: Callum Borchers On his show Tuesday, Levin slammed Trump's early-term leadership and scolded those who have hung legislative failures in health care and border-wall funding on congressional Republicans and [...]

Byline: Barton Swaim 'The conventional army loses if it does not win. The guerrilla wins if he does not lose.' Henry Kissinger's beautifully concise summation of asymmetric warfare captures something [...]

Byline: Aaron Blake Americans live in two realities when it comes to the Russia investigation. On one side is the intelligence community, and on the other is a Republican Party [...]

Byline: Amber Phillips As in any good spy story, the twists and turns in the real-life spy drama gripping Washington right now can be hard to follow. There are three [...]

Byline: Jennifer Rubin Hardly a drumbeat for the GOP bill. 'A majority of voters say the Republican plan to repeal and replace ObamaCare will be a step back for the [...]

Byline: Chris Cillizza Hours after FBI Director James B. Comey made clear that no evidence existed to back up President Trump's claim that he had been the subject of a [...]

Byline: Dan Balz A prudent president, facing multiple battles on legislative and other priorities that are crucial to his first-year success, would find ways to avoid needless controversy. Not President [...]

Byline: Aaron Blake There was one talking point from White House press secretary Sean Spicer's wild briefing on Thursday that was extremely telling. He kept referring to House Intelligence Committee [...]

Byline: Paul Waldman * Karla Adam reports that after Sean Spicer spent part of a televised briefing reading a Fox News transcript that included a wild allegation that the British [...]

Byline: Aaron Blake President Trump made a kind-of-joke toward the end of his news conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Friday. 'As far as wiretapping, I guess by this [...]

Byline: Karoun Demirjian The Republican and Democratic leaders of the Senate Intelligence Committee joined the chorus of lawmakers stating they are not aware of any current evidence supporting President Trump's [...]

Byline: Aaron Blake Things got very contentious in the White House briefing room Thursday afternoon, as press secretary Sean Spicer was confronted with the bipartisan doubts of congressional leaders about [...]

Byline: Aaron Blake Update: Nunes made another big statement about Trump's claim Wednesday, saying at a press conference that 'clearly the president was wrong' if he meant literally that President [...]

Byline: Aaron Blake It has been more than a week since President Trump alleged that President Barack Obama wiretapped him at Trump Tower, and the White House has spent much [...]

Byline: Callum Borchers Last week, White House press secretary Sean Spicer said he was going to let President Trump's tweets alleging wiretapping by former president Barack Obama speak for themselves. [...]

Byline: Kelsey Snell Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman John McCain (R-Ariz.) called Sunday for President Trump to either prove his claim that President Barack Obama tapped the phones in Trump [...]

Byline: Peter W. Stevenson President Trump tweeted almost a week ago that he 'just found out' that former president Barack Obama wiretapped him during the 2016 election. Terrible! Just found [...]

When he was Ronald Reagan's secretary of state, George Shultz was once asked about the CIA's disavowal of involvement in a mysterious recent bombing in Lebanon. Replied Shultz: 'If the [...]

Byline: Karoun Demirjian The heads of the House Intelligence Committee are asking the Justice Department to turn over any wiretapping applications, orders and warrants related to President Trump and his [...]

Byline: David Weigel President Trump's weekend allegations of a 'Nixon/Watergate' plot to wiretap his 2016 campaign confused intelligence analysts, befuddled members of Congress and created fresh work for fact-checkers. Within [...]

Byline: Aaron Blake Q from @HallieJackson: Why would Trump ask Congress to investigate for info he *already* claims to have -- about Obama ordering him wiretapped? pic.twitter.com/mwbfeZ2ykg There aren't many [...]

Byline: Helena Andrews-Dyer Google Barack Obama and tote bag, and the resulting mountain of merch starring the former president is nearly insurmountable. But there's one tote bag in particular that [...]

Byline: Jennifer Rubin President Trump opened up a can of worms here. '[I]ntelligence monitoring--whether direct or indirect--of persons connected with a presidential campaign inherently carries a high risk of abuse, [...]

President Trump has no evidence for his incendiary claim that Barack Obama ordered wiretaps on Trump Tower, and denials have come not just from the former president and his director [...]

Byline: Elise Viebeck Here's where things stand heading into Day 46 of the Trump administration: President Trump's top aides expected it to be a quiet weekend. They were wrong. In [...]

Byline: Erik Wemple Among those whose weekend President Trump ruined is Sarah Huckabee Sanders, principal deputy press secretary at the White House. She appeared Sunday on ABC News's 'This Week' [...]

Byline: Ann Telnaes President Trump tweets without providing evidence that President Barack Obama wiretapped his Trump Tower office and calls the former president a 'bad (or sick) guy.' Someone is [...]

Byline: Abby Phillip;Ellen Nakashima FBI Director James B. Comey asked the Justice Department this weekend to issue a statement refuting President Trump's claim that President Barack Obama ordered a wiretap [...]

Byline: Avi Selk There's a fan theory that best-selling author and master of horror fiction Stephen King predicted the rise of Donald Trump in his novel about a clairvoyant who [...]

Byline: Jennifer Rubin The Post reports: President Trump on Saturday angrily accused former president Barack Obama of orchestrating a 'Nixon/Watergate' plot to tap the phones at his Trump Tower headquarters [...]

Byline: Karen Tumulty Donald Trump's presidency has veered onto a road with no centerlines or guardrails. The president's accusation Saturday that his predecessor, Barack Obama, had tapped his phone 'during [...]

Byline: Chris Cillizza Donald Trump's political career was born amid the fever swamps of the far right. He seized on a favorite conspiracy theory bubbling there -- that then-President Barack [...]

Byline: Philip Rucker;Ellen Nakashima;Robert Costa President Trump on Saturday angrily accused former president Barack Obama of orchestrating a 'Nixon/Watergate' plot to tap the phones at his Trump Tower headquarters in [...]