Report: DOJ Corruptly Spied On Congress Members, Staffers, And Media In 4-Year Inquiry That Resulted In No Charges
A new report shows the creepy tactics the Department of Justice (DOJ) employed to secretly spy on certain members of Congress, media personnel, and congressional staffers who were investigating the DOJ.
The DOJ conducted four criminal investigations between 2017 and 2020 into unauthorized disclosure of classified information. The DOJ launched these investigations “while House and Senate oversight committees were investigating the Department of Justice and the FBI for their role in the Russia-collusion hoax,” as Margot Cleveland reported for The Federalist.
Despite unprecedented and indefensibly invasive investigations, the DOJ “did not charge anyone in these investigations with unauthorized disclosure of classified information,” according to a DOJ Office of Inspector General report. All four investigations are now closed.
The report, titled “A Review of the Department of Justice’s Issuance of Compulsory Process to Obtain Records of Members of Congress, Congressional Staffers, and Members of the News Media,” was released on Tuesday.
The DOJ investigated 43 congressional staffers — including 21 who worked for Democrat committees or members of Congress and 20 who worked for Republican committees or Congress members — their family members, and two Democrat members of Congress who are not named in the report, but who have been identified in other media as Rep. Eric Swalwell and then-Rep. Adam Schiff (who has now moved to the U.S. Senate). (Read more from “Report: DOJ Corruptly Spied On Congress Members, Staffers, And Media In 4-Year Inquiry That Resulted In No Charges” HERE)
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