Posted on 11/10/2023 10:59:38 AM PST by bitt
Senate Judiciary Committee Republicans are investigating allegations the Justice Department spied on congressional staffers while they probed the agency, including during its handling of the Trump-Russia inquiry, the Washington Examiner has learned.
Virginia-based whistleblower firm Empower Oversight said in a late October Freedom of Information Act request to the DOJ that its founder, Jason Foster, former chief investigative counsel to ex-Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA), was notified on Oct. 19, 2023, that the agency in 2017 subpoenaed Google for records on Foster's telephone and email accounts, as well as those of other House and Senate staffers. Now, Sens. Ted Cruz (R-TX), Mike Lee (R-UT), and Grassley are demanding the DOJ turn over a trove of documents on these allegations, which they wrote in a Monday letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland demonstrate "executive branch overreach."
"We write to express deep concern regarding recent revelations that the Department of Justice engaged in a campaign of covert surveillance of the personal communications of attorneys advising congressional oversight committees," the senators wrote to Garland in the letter, first obtained by the Washington Examiner. "The decision by unelected government bureaucrats to investigate the elected congressional representatives and congressional staff trying to hold them accountable is a true attack on our democracy."
The Justice Department did not return a request for comment. The letter from the senators comes over a week after House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) launched a similar investigation, requesting information on spying allegations from the DOJ, Google parent company Alphabet, Apple, AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon.
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It's a LONG list of atrocious attacks by the Biden administration and NOTHING ever gets done about it. We have a weaponization of government Congressional committee, and the DOJ/FBI is most likely investigating THEM. And again, NOTHING is done. And the GOP wonders why we have no ambition to go vote for them, why would they, they do NOTHING.
Does the Senate have a SWAT team? Are they looking for volunteers? How about the House...They are not majority communists?
Maybe google voice is not a good choice for a phone service.
What about spying on CITIZENS??
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It’s a public dance, nothing will be done.
Cruz and the rest line up to send them more money every time.
Notice funding is never touched, in fact, huge increases.
"You know da rules senator can't comment. Actually, we think this on-going investigation will last for the next 10 years. Yup."
Yeah, here is the prob history:
Senators ask for info.
DOJ says, no.
Senate sends over subpoena for it.
Doj says no.
Senate sends over enforcement request
DOJ laughs.
If we think we will fix this mess by voting, we are sorely mistaken.
Agree, with both of you.
BUT....that doesn’t mean we don’t d@m well TRY to fix it, with voting.
Senate needs a SWAT team bigger and badder than the CIA SWAT team. And the real will to use it.
D.C. needs to change it’s name to Moscow same operations.
Well, they did it to President Trump and nothing was done.......
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