(Ken Silva, Headline USA) The House Judiciary Committee is scrutinizing the FBI for allegedly spying on two congressional staffers who were investigating the causes of Russia-Gate.
The committee’s investigation stems from the FBI issuing subpoenas to Google in 2017, seeking email records of the two congressional staffers. The subpoenas were only recently discovered because of Google’s policy of alerting customers five years after law enforcement takes such action.
Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, informed FBI Director Chris Wray of his committee’s investigation in a letter Thursday, asking Wray to provide him with all documents related to the FBI issuing subpoenas for the congressional staffers’ email records in 2017.
“The timing of these subpoenas raise questions about whether the subpoenas were in retaliation for [congressional] oversight of the FBI,” Jordan said in the letter.
#NEWS: @Jim_Jordan opens inquiry into FBI targeting of House Intelligence committee staffers during Russia probe. pic.twitter.com/3QPGVy9k4w
— House Judiciary GOP 🇺🇸 (@JudiciaryGOP) July 13, 2023
One of the staffers who had his emails subpoenaed was Kash Patel, who at the time was chief investigator on then-House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes’s team, according to Just the News.
The other congressional staffer has yet to be identified.
Those two staffers were not the only people subjected to surveillance during their years-long probe into the Russia collusion hoax.
In fact, the U.S. government may have spied on Nunes himself. Headline USA came to this conclusion in May, after former Fox News host Tucker Carlson told former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard that the “head” of the House Intelligence Committee once told him that the National Security Agency was reading the congressman’s texts.
“He had been drinking and said, ‘We have to talk about this.’ I said, ‘I’ll text you,’ and he said, ‘I can’t text … because the NSA reads my texts,’” Carlson told Gabbard.
“I said, ‘You’re the head guy of the intel oversight committee. You’re their boss. He said, ‘Yeah, well they’re still spying on me.’”
Carlson did not identify the specific member he was talking to, but the list of House Intelligence Committee chairs over the last decade is not long: Rep. Mike Turner, R-Ohio (2023-present); Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., (2019-2023); Nunes (2015-2019); and former Rep. Michael Rogers, R-Mich. (2011-2015).
Headline USA contacted each of these officials. All of them but Nunes denied speaking to Carlson about the NSA.
Ken Silva is a staff writer at Headline USA. Follow him at twitter.com/jd_cashless.
