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Bombshell Revelations of Trump DOJ's Spying on Congress [1]

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Date: 2024-12-10  

Not quite sure why this apparently hasn’t been mentioned here yet, but Raw Story has a piece up today about the dynamite IG report on the DOJ’s unprecedented spying on members of Congress during Trump’s first administration to try and identify the source of the leaking of highly sensitive materials to the press:

'Outrageous': GOP lawmaker turns on Trump's DOJ after revelation it spied on Congress Rep. Mike Turner (R-OH), chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, lashed out at President-elect Donald Trump's former Department of Justice for obtaining records of lawmakers, staffers and journalists during an investigation of leaks. In a report released Tuesday, the Justice Department's inspector general said the DOJ targeted two lawmakers and 43 staffers in an effort to unearth leaks to journalists. Records of Trump's pick to be the next FBI director, Kash Patel, were obtained as a part of the investigation. Patel was serving as a House staffer at the time.

How ironic is this — Trump’s nominee to head the FBI was one of the subjects of this prior spying!

"This report lays out outrageous behavior by the Department of Justice, where members of Congress and staff of the Intelligence Committee, the committee that I chair, had phone records and email records that were accessed by the Department of Justice without court review," Turner told CNN on Tuesday. Turner argued that new protections put in place by Attorney General Merrick Garland were "clearly insufficient."

That goes without saying of course, though in any event Trump’s new AG (whoever that may be) will almost certainly remove those protections.

"We need to pass statutes that can require a court review and authorization," he insisted. "The courts didn't even know that the Department of Justice was accessing emails and phone records of members of Congress and their staff, merely because they had access to classified information."

It’s nice to see at least one Republican Congressman can still get outraged over some of the Trump toadies’ more questionable actions. And the best part of the IG report is that despite all the time and questionable effort spent by Trump’s DOJ to identify the source of the leaks, they never were able to do that.

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