DOJ Snooped On Congress While Congress Was Investigating DOJ's Russiagate Corruption
And there's little to prevent the DOJ from engaging in such chilling conduct again
IG Report Reveals FBI Could Still Be Spying On Congress And Leaking To Help Democrats
Can you imagine the danger to our republic if the Executive Branch could secretly, for months on end, and without any clear and compelling justification, surveil the very people in Congress conducting oversight of its agencies?
That chilling constitutional nightmare transpired. And we’re only getting the details about the separation-of-powers-eviscerating, civil liberties-undermining, and transparency-imperiling activity seven years after it started.
The revelations come in a recently released Justice Department Inspector General report. Like much of this corrupt activity, the story begins with Russiagate, with the snooping on Congress predicated on a leak probe into the illegal disclosure of information around the fraudulent Carter Page FISA warrant.
I’ve got the remarkably disturbing details in a new piece at The Federalist.