The DOJ finally got caught spying on congress but there isn’t much their Inspector General “watchdog” plans to do about it. Along with browsing through phone records of Adam Schiff and Eric Swalwell, they also snooped the activities of incoming FBI director Kash Patel. The shoe will soon be on the other foot and Patel’s investigation into the matter is expected to make the IG report look tame.
DOJ spied on congress
The DOJ, the Justice Department’s inspector general reports, “secretly obtained phone records from two members of Congress and 43 staffers.” One of those staffers was Kash Patel, CNN writes, “President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the FBI.” They keep calling him president-elect but everyone on the planet knows he’s already on the job and running the show.
Joe Biden has reportedly stopped bothering to even comb his hair. The administration sent Jill over to France to attend the grand reopening of Notre Dame. She made sure to sit right next to Donald Trump and stay on her very best behavior.
Nobody trusts Merrick Garland, Christopher Wray or any of their DOJ underlings as far as you can throw a fit. It’s no surprise that they were secretly spying on congressional staffers “during sweeping leak investigations.”
Those happened on Trump’s first term but the president had no idea it was happening. It was done by the Deep State operatives working to undermine Trump’s administration from within.
The Inspector General is also just a wee bit concerned that the DOJ “tried to root out reporters’ sources.” They had a “sprawling and bipartisan list of federal employees who had access to classified information because of their job.”
Everyone of them was considered guilty until proven innocent. The big name targets weren’t identified in the report but everyone already knows who they are.
A broad sweep
It’s clear to the Inspector General that the DOJ was using a really big broom to make a “broad sweep” for evidence. Two insiders leaked to the press that Kash Patel “was targeted along with Democratic Representatives Adam Schiff and Eric Swalwell.”
At the time, “Patel was a staffer for the GOP-led House Intelligence Committee.” Shifty Adam Schiff has since scored a promotion to Senator. Anyone who “may have had access to the sensitive information that was leaked” went under the microscope.
That sort of dragnet makes the IG nervous. Gathering phone records secretly based only on “the close proximity in time between access to classified information and subsequent publication of the information,” they write, “risks chilling Congress’s ability to conduct oversight of the executive branch.”
That sort of DOJ behavior creates, “at a minimum,” the “appearance of inappropriate interference by the executive branch in legitimate oversight activity by the legislative branch.”
If they were doing it to find out who leaked embarrassing information to the press they could do it for any reason they want. Once again, the Deep State agents of evil got off without even a slap on the wrist. “The inspector general did not recommend charges against anyone in their review and did not find any indication that the career prosecutors assigned to the leak investigation were motivated by politics.” Of course not.
The DOJ has been getting away with anything they want. That’s going to change soon. “Patel, meeting with senators on Tuesday regarding his upcoming FBI director nomination, didn’t comment on the report.” He already knew he was in it.
