The Department of Justice (DOJ) allegedly used grand jury subpoenas to secretly access personal information belonging to House Republican staffers – including email communications, residential addresses, and cellphone data – while Republican lawmakers simultaneously worked to obtain evidence that the FBI’s investigation into the now disproven Trump–Russia collusion narrative was false, according to a report by Just the News.
The subpoenas were obtained by Just the News, and were issued at a time when then-chair of the House Intelligence Committee Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) struggled to get the FBI and DOJ to hand over documents to the committee while he sought to establish that the allegations made against former President Donald Trump were being driven by the infamous Steele dossier.
Research in the Steele dossier was paid for by the Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee and commissioned by Washington-based private intelligence firm Fusion GPS.
The subpoenas (pdf) show that the DOJ requested that tech giant Google hand over documents containing the personal information of at least two top House Intelligence Committee staffers in November 2017: former Intelligence Committee senior counsel Kash Patel, and another unnamed staffer.
Google responded to the subpoena requests by Dec. 5, 2017, roughly a month after they were issued, according to the publication.
Google Notifies GOP Staffers of Information Request
Just the News reports that the subpoenas have only recently come to light because Google, in line with its five-year policy, informed the former committee staffers that their records had been handed over to law enforcement.
Google’s policy regarding government agencies requesting it disclose user information states: “We carefully review each request to make sure it satisfies applicable laws. If a request asks for too much information, we try to narrow it, and in some cases, we object to producing any information at all.”
The tech giant noted that it will send an email to the user account before disclosing personal information to the relevant government agency, although this is not the case when “legally prohibited under the terms of the request.”
The subpoena for Patel shows that the FBI and DOJ requested a string of information from Google, including subscriber names, screen names, and user names; addresses including mailing addresses, residential addresses, business addresses, and email addresses, local and long-distance telephone connection records, records of session times and durations, length of service and types of service utilized, and personal telephone numbers.
It also requested information pertaining to the “means and source of payment for such service (including any credit card or bank account number) and billing records.”
The subpoena issued to the other unnamed former staffer requested the same, according to Just the News. It is unclear from the subpoena who was leading the investigation into Patel and the other staffer.
Patel was personally recruited by Nunes to spearhead the investigation into the FBI’s handling of the Russia–Trump probe.
In an interview with The Epoch Times in March 2021, Patel said: “It would be beneficial to the American public for the FBI to disclose who they surveilled in this Trump orbit, and more importantly, how.”
“The lengths they were willing to go just to try to get a narrative to become true—which is never the purpose of an investigation at the Department of Justice—you’re supposed to follow an investigation and see if there’s a crime. You’re not supposed to try to come up with a political narrative and have the ends justify the means,” Patel added.
Despite winning the election over Clinton in 2016, Trump was dogged by the collusion allegations for years after.
The former president went on to sue Clinton, Steele, and several other Democrats in March 2022, claiming they carried out a plot to “weave a false narrative” that he was colluding with Russian actors.
The lawsuit was thrown out by U.S. District Judge Donald Middlebrooks, an appointee of former President Bill Clinton, in September, with the judge stating that it “does not establish that Plaintiff is entitled to any relief” and that the claims presented in it “are not warranted under existing law.”
They all should be hung for committing treason against USA. When I start seeing these criminals actually be brought to justice, I start believing justice is being served. Meantime, all that is happening in the USA, they are blowing air up Liberty’s skirt.
I was placed in FB Jail for 30 days because I commented about some guys doing $75K damage to a golf course. I said they should be hung by their Wilson balls. Wilson makes golf balls. Your comment about blowing air up Liberty’s skirt made me think the only thing that could sort some of the DC mess out is for little rocket man to have one of his test nukes accidentally land on Congress and the Senate while they are in session. The treason is the reason for the season! Merry Christmas
You got that right, or the Republicans need to get atleast a backbone and need to be as cruel as the Democrats are, I don’t anderstand why do the shut there Mouth and the Democrats run rampant like the Devil
Before you EFFING DOTURDS screaming for DonnieDOTARD to come back to um… drain the swamp…
ALL of this shit happened RIGHT UNDER DonnieDOTARD’s nose!
The more I learned how DonnieDOTARD was running the show like an EFFING DOTARD in the HEADLIGHTS, CLUELESS about what the swamp was doing to the rest of us, the more my blood BOILED!
At least that EFFING EmoElon realized he didn’t have what it took to deal with the Corporate FAKENEWS hyenas and offered to step down from Twitter… I just wish DOTARD had the same fortitude to do the same like EmoELON and offered to step aside and let others lead the Party.
Who am I kidding… then NOONE would buy DOTARD’S NFT now, would it! The grifting from this DOTARD aint done yet!
Idiot,
Moron!
It just never ends, does it… but the end is in sight at least now. But what the deranged Left, including its heinous judges, have DONE to America is truly egregious(sp), and criminal – making it a criminal enterprise of gigantic proportions. But they’re all going down. And none too soon.
Here is the REAL DEAL They the Corrupt FBI & DOJ going after the Legit President Trump and his TEAM, but not going against the illegal President Joe Biden and his Corrupt TEAM and His Son Hunter What is going on TREASON
Hey DOJ/FBI! You only have power when you’re alive. ONE BULLET IN LESS THAN ONE SECOND – DONE! NONE of you are infallable – NONE OF YOU!