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The Justice Department secretly spied on two House members and 43 congressional staffers, including Kash Patel, then a staffer for the GOP-led House Intelligence Committee and now President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for FBI director, as part of a leak investigation. The department obtained phone records without notifying the courts, according to a sweeping report released Tuesday by the agency’s inspector general.
“The probe began to investigate leaks to the media of classified information as part of the Trump-Russia probe being conducted by officials at the department”, reports Just The News. “Inspector General Michael Horowitz found that the Justice Department, in filings with the court, did not reference ‘the fact that they related to requests for records of Members of Congress or congressional staffers.'”
Patel, who is poised to become the new director of the FBI if confirmed, previously sued former Trump Justice Department officials and FBI Director Christopher Wray, accusing them of violating his Fourth Amendment right to protection from unreasonable searches and seizures when they tried to obtain Patel’s personal records, Just the News previously reported.
