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| ‘We Caught Them Red-Handed': DOJ Spied on GOP Staffers Probing the Origins of the Russia Collusion Hoax |
| 2023-11-02 |
| [Breitbart] The Department of Justice (DOJ) obtained private communications and other personal records of multiple Republican House and Senate staffers who were investigating the department’s role in the origins of the Russia collusion hoax, according to former senior Trump administration official Kash Patel. A recently-revealed subpoena shows that the DOJ sought the records for not only Patel when he was an investigator for then-Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA), but also those of Jason Foster, who was at the time chief investigative counsel to then-Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (I-IA) and was also looking into the DOJ’s role in the hoax. According to multiple subpoenas revealed so far, the DOJ had subpoenaed Google, Apple, and other companies to obtain private records in what Patel believes was an unlawful attempt to dig up dirt on them in retaliation for investigating the Democrat-pushed hoax that Donald Trump’s campaign had colluded with Russia in the 2016 presidential election. In an exclusive interview with Breitbart News, Patel called it an abuse of power. “You can get anything with a grand jury subpoena and this is what we know about. Did they surveil us with FBI agents? We don’t know,” Patel said, adding, “If you get a grand jury subpoena, you’re not just requesting Google [records]. You’re going to ask for everything that individual ever touched. Apple, Google, AT&T, Comcast, Xfinity, whatever, it’s all coming in. You’re not just going after one item. They have the ability to use the FBI databases to cull for information. And we know that Chris Wray’s FBI just last year was caught illegally querying the FISA database for American citizens 250,000 times. Each one of those instances is illegal. So, it’s not hard to believe that they would abuse their power again.” Patel and Foster only learned about the DOJ’s subpoenas for their private records when they were notified by Google and other firms after court seals keeping the subpoenas secret expired. Google notified Foster earlier this month that in 2017, the DOJ obtained records for his Google Voice telephone number between December 1, 2016, and May 1, 2017 — the exact time he was investigating the Russia hoax. Foster told DailyMail.com that the DOJ also went after his wife’s phone records and also possibly one of his work phones he used for Senate business. “This was just a fishing expedition to gather intel on their overseers in Congress,” Foster told the outlet. “We were their primary oversight committee. And we were asking them very pointed and difficult questions that they didn’t want to answer.” The DOJ official who signed the subpoena was Tejpal Chawla, a federal prosecutor who has donated to Democrats, DailyMail.com reported last week. Chawla, an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Washington, DC, U.S. Attorney’s office, has donated a total of $2,851 to political campaigns since 1999, including to Democrat PAC ActBlue, Barack Obama’s presidential campaign, and Democrat senators and House members, according to the report. Related: Kash Patel: 2023-09-04 Book Review: 'Untenable' - The True Story of White Ethnic Flight from America's Cities Kash Patel: 2023-08-08 Disgraced FBI counterintelligence chief who investigated Trump's debunked Kremlin ties is set to plead guilty to colluding with RUSSIA and illegally working for an oligarch Kash Patel: 2023-07-15 Probe opened into FBI targeting of House Intelligence committee staffers during Russia probe |
| Posted by:Skidmark |
| #9 ^^^^ that part of the oath is still very much in efffect, it's just that the current DoJ has a very precise definition of who constitutes a "domestic enemy", and it ain't them! |
| Posted by: NoMoreBS 2023-11-02 14:57 |
| #8 I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same... Is this part of the oath of office still current or is it passe among the creatures from the lagoon. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2023-11-02 11:47 |
| #7 /\ DoJ 'break up' along with a number of other federal agencies. Let the States handle justice, education, agriculture, as was originally intended by the Founders. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2023-11-02 11:28 |
| #6 I think the answer is to break DoJ up into narrowly focused units with very explicitly set responsibilities and limitations. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2023-11-02 11:25 |
| #5 Next admin... exeunt DOJ, DED. Office space for rent. |
| Posted by: irish rage boy 2023-11-02 10:28 |
| #4 Send some people to prison to hang for a few decades and we won’t see this sort of thing again. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2023-11-02 08:36 |
| #3 /\ The gov't knows wat cures the ailment. Ask 6Jan internees for details. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2023-11-02 08:16 |
| #2 Send some people to prison for a few decades and we won’t see this sort of thing again. |
| Posted by: Ruprecht 2023-11-02 07:50 |
| #1 The RINOs in the GOP did not care when the DOJ and Deep State went after Trump illegally but now it seems the GOP cares about illegal spying. Hmmm. I expect nothing will come of this already assumed indiscretion. |
| Posted by: Airandee 2023-11-02 07:07 |