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Posted on 08/13/2022 8:48:58 AM PDT by lightman
House Freedom Caucus Chairman Scott Perry (R-Pa.) confirmed that he has received his cell phone back from the FBI after the agency had seized it a few days back.
On Aug. 9, a day after raiding former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home in Florida, FBI agents had taken Perry’s phone as part of a separate investigation. At the time, Perry was traveling with his family. Speaking to “Capitol Report” on NTD News, the GOP member confirmed that he has received his phone.
He is still uninformed as to why the phone was confiscated by the FBI. However, Perry was informed by his attorneys that he was not a target of the FBI’s investigation.
After the seizure, Perry had blasted FBI agents for making no attempt to contact his lawyer who would have made arrangements to submit the phone if needed by the agency.
In a statement, Perry said that though he was outraged, he was “not surprised” that the FBI under the direction of Attorney General Merrick Garland’s Department of Justice would seize the phone of a sitting member of Congress.
Perry claimed that his phone contains information about political and legislative activities as well as private conversations with his family members, friends, and constituents, none of which is the “government’s business.”
“DOJ chose this unnecessary and aggressive action instead of simply contacting my attorneys,” the statement said. “These kinds of banana republic tactics should concern every citizen.”
Unprecedented Move
In an interview with NTD, Greg Shaffer, a retired FBI agent for the elite hostage rescue team, said that the FBI needs to have special permission to seize any property belonging to members of Congress, members of the clergy, attorneys, or other individuals who deal with privileged information. Seizing Perry’s phone was a “show of force” by the Biden administration.
“For an FBI agent to go walk up to a sitting congressman and take his cell phone … that had to be approved at the highest level at the FBI and DOJ,” Shaffer said. “That is very, very difficult to do. Unprecedented.”
It is unclear whether there is a link between Perry’s phone seizure and the raid on Trump’s home. Speaking to The Epoch Times, Perry pointed out that the separation of powers is a firewall that keeps the three branches of government in check.
By taking control of a phone belonging to a sitting member of Congress, the DOJ, “for maybe the first time in history, is preparing to pierce that veil.”
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I agree with him. I assume he supports President Trump.
Get rid of it. You don’t know what they did to it while they had it.
He was elected to do something about this, so do something or resign.
He might not be clear about the motive but I am.
He should have told them that since they wanted the phone so bad to keep it. Then buy a new one.
Don’t worry, your phone has been “upgraded” while in the Stasi possession. Would be very concerned about root kits and some sophisticated spyware designed to not be detectable.
Lesson to all of us: Multiple off-site backups.
Whatever you do, do not use it. Kill it with a hammer like Hillary did, then give it a bleach bath.
There probably isn’t anything that they could do to the phone that they already can’t do if they want to now.
The goal was intimidation. If they can raid a former president’s home, and spend 9 hours rummaging through it, seize a congressman’s phone, and arrest Navarro and others, just think what they can do to ordinary people.
The Media-Dem Party has turned the FBI into their own secret police force. Garland and Wray can whine all they want, but it is the party they are loyal to that has destroyed the reputation of the DoJ and FBI.
I didn’t read the entire article as they wanted my email address. My question: Did the FBI have a warrant?
Not that it matters, at all. Biden’s handlers will do what they want, when they want. Due process, that’s so last century.
The Democrats in Pennsylvania drew Perry’s district into heavily D Harrisburg it’s considered a marginal district.
Is this about crime no it’s about an election for a congressional district drawn in a way that Democrats think they have a chance to win.
He probably had facial recognition turned on so all the FBI had to do was point the phone at him to unlock it. If he had just used a six-digit passcode, they would not have been able to open his phone.
Once they got into his phone, his cloud storage was compromised, too.
The country is really circling the drain with these Gestapo / totalitarian tactics becoming a daily occurrence. It is very frightening.
The FBI just took the day off after “Da Big Raid” to relax and do a little phishin’.
“Multiple off-site backups.”
Lots of us use iCloud or similar cloud storage backups. The problem is once they get into your phone, who knows what they planted in your cloud storage.
The other lesson is turn off facial recognition on your phone. Without that, they cannot get into your iPhone (not sure about Android). Remember the islamic terrorists who slaughtered the people at the Christmas party in Southern California? I think after that incident there was a lot of discussion about how the police couldn’t get into their phones without them automatically wiping the phone after a few tries.
We think a like on this. That was my first thought as well. He should get a new phone, and a new account while he is at it.
Absolutely. I wouldn’t trust using that phone ever again.
I think the congressman said that the three not so special agents had a warrant.
It supposedly had something to do with the alternate Pennsylvania electors. Those electors would not have been chosen unless a court decertified the Biden Pennsylvania electors.
In other words, no crime was committed, and the FBI should not have been involved.
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