Posted on 12/21/2022 6:56:13 PM PST by bitt
Legal expert Alan Dershowitz says DOJ use of subpoenas to target House Intelligence Committee staff phone and email records is likely unconstitutional.
The former House Intelligence Committee chairman is suggesting the Justice Department illegally spied on him and possibly sought blackmail material after a bombshell revelation that federal prosecutors used grand jury subpoenas five years ago to get the phone and email records of his top investigators during the congressional probe that unraveled the now-disproven Russia collusion narrative.
"This is, I believe, unprecedented spying in modern political history at this point, and just sad that it's taken us almost six years to discover it," retired Rep. Devin Nunes said Monday night after Just the News reported that DOJ demanded Google turn over personal email and phone data from at least two senior Intelligence Committee lawyers working for Nunes.
You can see a copy of one of the subpoenas here:
https://justthenews.com/sites/default/files/2022-12/KashPatelSubpoena.pdf
The subpoenas were served on Nov. 20, 2017 during a critical time frame in the committee's effort to expose the Donald Trump-Russia collusion investigation as having been driven by an uncorroborated political opposition dossier funded by Hillary Clinton. Nunes' committee was locked at the time in a bitter struggle to force the FBI and DOJ to turn over records to the committee.
"I think they probably were spying on quite a few of my staff," Nunes told the "Just the News, No Noise" television show. "The only reason they would possibly be doing that is because we caught the DOJ and the FBI coordinating with the Democratic Party in 2016 ... in order to spy on the Trump campaign and the Republican Party ...
(Excerpt) Read more at justthenews.com ...
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We need a whole scrapbook of names, faces, and where they are now.
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Lindsey Graham is 100% already under the blackmail umbrella.
He does precisely as told.
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I don’t think it’s blackmail. He’s Establishment.
We have a real crisis on our hands. The FBI/DOJ are corrupt to the core...Fortunately we have the 2nd Amendment. Unfortunately this is EXACTLY why we have the 2nd amendment and we may have to exercise it unless the congress does something to disband the FBI.
Now that America’s KGB is out in the open, the GOP will never be allowed to hold national power again.
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Nunez was the number 1 target of the leftist Democrats and also as payback for their water denial policies first his farmer constituents over the years.
They hate loyal Americans!
The DOJ is out of control. Here they were spying on a perfectly legal activity by a Congressional committee.
Btt
Will anything chance come January?
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