Treasonous DOJ Spied on House Intelligence Committee Investigators To Take Out Trump Administration

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DOJ snooped on House Intelligence Committee investigators during Russia probe, subpoenas show

By John Solomon, Just The News, December 19, 2022:

In an extraordinary intrusion on congressional oversight, the Justice Department used grand jury subpoenas to secretly obtain the personal email and phone data of at least two top House Intelligence Committee investigators back in November 2017 just as they and their boss, then-Chairman Devin Nunes, were assembling bombshell evidence of FBI abuses in the Russia collusion probe, Just the News has learned.

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The subpoenas, obtained by Just the News, show the DOJ demanded that Google turn over personal email and phone data from the two senior staffers on Nov. 20, 2017 and that responsive materials were to be returned to DOJ by Dec. 5, 2017.
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The subpoenas were delivered during a critical time frame in the committee’s effort to expose the Donald Trump-Russia collusion investigation as having been driven by an uncorroborated political opposition dossier funded by Hillary Clinton. Nunes’ committee was locked at the time in a bitter struggle to force the FBI and DOJ to turn over records to the committee.

The DOJ subpoenas came to light in the last few days when the former committee staffers were informed by Google that their records had been taken, consistent with the Big Tech company’s policy of alerting customers five years after law enforcement takes such actions.

One of the subpoenaed staffers, former Intelligence Committee senior counsel Kash Patel, told Just the News that the DOJ’s subpoenas were an extraordinary intrusion on congressional oversight and raised serious concerns about the separation of executive and legislative branch powers guaranteed in the Constitution.“It’s so shocking,” Patel told the Just the News, Not Noise television show Monday night. “Because a co-equal branch of government, we as congressional investigators and Devin Nunes, his staff on House Intel were conducting constitutional demanded oversight of the fraudulent acts at the FBI and DOJ which we now know happened.”

The other House Intelligence staffer whose records were subpoenaed by DOJ confirmed to Just the News he was notified last week by Google. He said he had worked extensively on investigating the FBI’s Russia collusion conduct, including drafting the committee’s report criticizing the FBI, reviewing sensitive documents and fighting with DOJ to gain access to the records.

Nunes said the subpoenas gave the DOJ and FBI unprecedented potential to learn in real-time what his investigation was learning about misconduct in the Russia probe. He called on the new Republican Congress to probe the subpoenas aggressively.

“The FBI and DOJ spied on a presidential campaign, and when Congress began exposing what they were doing, they spied on us to find out what we knew and how we knew it,” Nunes told Just the News. “It’s an egregious abuse of power that the next Congress must investigate so these agencies can be held accountable and reformed.”

The subpoenas demanded a broad swath of records from Google, including “all customer and subscriber account information” for Patel and the other staffer, “addresses (including mailing addresses, residential addresses, business adresses, and e-mail addresses,” user names, “screen names,” “local and long distance telephone connection records” and even the “means and source of payment for such service (including any credit card or bank account number) and billing records.”

The subpoena does not specify which component of the DOJ was leading the investigation, but included a numbering system suggesting it was being handled by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Washington D.C. At the time, DOJ had Special Counsel Robert Mueller investigating Russia collusion, the department’s inspector general was probing FBI misconduct related to the Russia case, and several agencies were investigating leaks, including one traced to a former Senate Intelligence Committee staffer.

Spokesmen for the Justice Department and U.S. Attorney’s Office did not respond to requests Monday for comment.

Former DOJ officials said since a legal dispute in 2007 over a DOJ raid of former Rep. William Jefferson’s office, the department ordinarily would require subpoenas of congressmen or their staff to include approval from the attorney general as well as some form of notification to congressional leadership. It is unclear whether those procedures were followed in the 2017 matter.

In the Russia collusion case, then-Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein assumed the attorney general’s powers when Attorney General Jeff Sessions recused himself. Rosenstein did not respond to a request by email and phone to his office for comment on Monday. Former House Speaker Paul Ryan did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Nunes and Patel said they have long suspected the FBI or DOJ might be monitoring their communications, especially after Rosenstein made a threat during a January 2018 meeting to subpoena committee members or staff.

““In this one meeting, in particular, Rod Rosenstein, who’s known for losing his temper, had done so before and in this meeting, screamed at the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee and myself. And he literally said verbatim, if you’re going to continue this investigation, I’m going to subpoena you and your records, looking at the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee and looking at his senior counsel and chief investigator on the Russiagate,” Patel recalled.

Harvard University law professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz told Just the News that while more information needs to be learned that the subpoenas raised serious concerns about separation of powers between Congress and the executive branch.

“It’s a violation of the separation of powers. Look, our Framers specifically separated legislative, executive and judicial powers. And that was saying — all kinds of efforts to overcome them — that Congress is independent and has the right to investigate.

“And the Justice Department shouldn’t be investigating the investigators unless there is fairly substantial proof of, of criminal conduct. So we don’t know the whole story yet. But I’m very suspicious of subpoenas being issued by the grand jury,” he added.

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Arsene Lupin

1 year ago

Will treachery and treason ever been punished? Will anyone ever be held accountable?

Military tribunals are required since the entire system of “justice” is compromised and corrupt. There is precedent for this. No more jury trials in biased DC!

Swift justice is required. These traitors must be dispatched to Hell as quickly as possible I suggest public executions so traitors can see the fate that awaits them.

We have become soft and compliant. We must regain our American spirit and fight tyranny wherever it appears. We will NOT to subjugated by these radical Marxists!

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Cowgirl Diva

1 year ago

Reply to  Arsene Lupin

AND…let’s not fail to remember that MOLDY Nancy’s “military” was IN ON THE COUP that was orchestrated by the Demoncraps…!! WE may never have FREE and FAIR elections again unless we demand people in the military who participated in the COUP be removed…!!

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D

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1 year ago

“The FBI and DOJ spied on a presidential campaign, and when Congress began exposing what they were doing, they spied on us to find out what we knew and how we knew it,” Nunes told Just the News. “It’s an egregious abuse of power that the next Congress must investigate so these agencies can be held accountable and reformed.”

With all due respect, Mr. Nunes….F**k the investigations and just start arresting these traitors to the United States of America !!

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Snowedin

1 year ago

They failed to do their jobs on purpose and did things that were devious. The organization should be eliminated and everyone needs to be charged and sentenced.

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edward kennedy

1 year ago

There are cowardly criminal corrupt bureaucraps here in Canuckistan just as corrupt who use law enforcement as their own private Stasi and they are identified as LPC political operatives attempting to silent those who are fighting for freedom and justice. They use the corrupt CYSTem for their evil anti freedom ends but every dog has its day and theirs is soon to come.

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Cowgirl Diva

1 year ago

WILL anyone EVER be arrested and tried for TREASON..?? If not, there is ZERO justice in this country…!! This is INSANE..!!

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TRM

1 year ago

Unless you can prove something illegal–not evident–you’re just blowing smoke.

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