#NEWS: @Jim_Jordan opens inquiry into FBI targeting of House Intelligence committee staffers during Russia probe.
pic.twitter.com/3QPGVy9k4w— House Judiciary GOP 🇺🇸 (@JudiciaryGOP) July 13, 2023
Posted on 07/14/2023 8:18:55 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The Department of Justice spied on congressional staff working under then-Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., as the Republican lawmaker investigated FBI abuses amid the Russia hoax.
On Thursday, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, sent a letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray demanding answers about agency surveillance of Republican staff on Capitol Hill.
“In 2017, Google reportedly received subpoenas for private emails and records belonging to two Republican staffers of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) while HPSCI was investigating the FBI’s misconduct,” Jordan wrote. “These subpoenas only came to light in 2022 due to Google’s policy of alerting customers five years after law enforcement takes such action.”
#NEWS: @Jim_Jordan opens inquiry into FBI targeting of House Intelligence committee staffers during Russia probe.
At that time, Nunes was the Republican ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee while Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif, ran a deep-state campaign to maliciously frame President Donald Trump as a Russian agent. Schiff was censured by the lower chamber last month for abusing his role on the Intelligence Committee to undermine the legitimacy of the 2016 election.
[READ: Adam Schiff’s Censure Is The Bare Minimum]
Nunes retired from Congress in January last year to run Trump’s online alternative to Twitter, Truth Social. As the No. 2 lawmaker on the Intelligence Committee, Nunes was instrumental in pushing back on trumped-up claims of Russian collusion.
Jordan now wants to know whether the FBI subpoenas to Google seeking information from Nunes’ staff were submitted in “retaliation for HSPCI’s oversight of the FBI.”
In May, Special Counsel John Durham published his long-awaited report on the Russia-collusion hoax, which found that “neither U.S. law enforcement nor the Intelligence Community appears to have possessed any actual evidence of collusion in their holdings at the commencement of the Crossfire Hurricane investigation.”
Jordan wrote that the report “confirms many of the concerns about FBI misconduct advanced by HPSCI in 2017.”
Nunes’ work rejecting the Russia hoax narratives peddled by Schiff was entirely vindicated once Special Counsel Robert Mueller found no evidence that anyone on the Trump campaign, let alone Trump himself, colluded with the Russian government to steal the White House. Nunes was further vindicated when the DOJ inspector general published a report in 2019 detailing a wide range of abuses within the FBI to advance the conspiracy. The California representative himself even became the target of defamatory lies from Trump’s opponents.
Jordan’s letter to the FBI director comes just a day after Wray testified before the House Judiciary Committee. Lawmakers pressed Wray on myriad agency issues, including the FBI’s abuse of surveillance powers as Congress prepares to reform the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. Wray pressed for the reauthorization of a surveillance tool known as Section 702 of FISA that allows the FBI to conduct warrantless searches. The law is scheduled to expire at the end of the year.
[READ: Top 10 Takeaways From FBI Director Christopher Wray’s House Judiciary Testimony]
The deep state is very, very deep. The administrative state has become power unto itself. That is the major lesson of the Trump years.
The AG is only a figurehead leader. They ‘run’ nothing.
The un-elected embedded bureaucracy runs everything. They do not care who, what or why anyone thinks about them. They run themselves for their own purposes.
If their purposes align with the administration, fine and dandy. If not, screw the administration...................
Wray is “Honorable”?
Bttt.
5.56mm
Ohh, a letter, that will do something.
The fact is, Trump is surrounded by a snake pit of traitors in DC. In many ways, he didn’t control something if they weren’t standing right there in the room with him. The national security council was infested with CIA and DOD Ukrainian spies. When Comey met with him the first time, he scuttled downstairs and immediately wrote a memo documenting his conversation. Then he had clowns like general Milley making side deals with China.
But back to Devon Nunez. If I were the DOJ I would’ve done the same thing. The republican party in 2017 held the house and the senate and Trump was president. The DOJ should’ve been absolutely terrified to get caught spying on a congressman. Good way to get your budget zeroed out, get impeached, or get some draconian strict law. But because the republican party can be counted on to submit Miekle, DOJ did whatever it wants. Republicans deserve this kind of treatment until they get a back bone. Even Nunez himself saw the documents in a SCIF. Instead of walking right out and saying this is what I was just shown, He walked out and made some general statement about same things that he didn’t like, and got browbeaten into recusing.
He should’ve taken the risk and exposed the whole thing in early 2017 when he saw those documents, classified or not. Our soldiers risk their very life when they walk out the door. We can’t count on congressmen to risk their freedom a little bit? I remember something about lives fortunes and sacred honor.
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Likely Kash Patel is one of the two. The Enemies of America HATE Kash with a vengeance.
“The ones running the DOJ were Jeff Sessions and/or Bill Barr.”
Remember the crazy “Trust Sessions!” crowd? Many of them right here on FR. Still waiting for the “We wuz wrong!”
I suspect that everyone that supported President Trump was spied upon in some manner. Both politicians and the “peon” voters alike.
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