Ohio Republican Rep. Jim Jordan believes he has discovered a massive spying operation being done by the Biden administration on Congress members and their staffers.
The representative said that the House Judiciary Committee, of which he is the chair, has started investigating claims that the Justice Department has been involved in those operations.
He spoke on Fox Business about the investigations on Tuesday.
“We now know that they spied on congressional staffers,” the representative said when he appeared on “The Evening Edit” and spoke with host Elizabeth MacDonald. “We want to know, how far does it go? Were they spying on members? Were they spying on other staffers? Keep this in mind, Liz: We know they spied on President Trump’s campaign. We know all that from the FISA Court and what they did with Carter Page and Papadopoulos—everything else. Now we’ve learned that they spied on one of Sen. Grassley’s staff members, Jason Foster.”
“We want to know, does it go further?” he said. “So we’ve sent letters not only to the Department of Justice but to all these carriers that the Department of Justice worked with to get the phone records and the email records from congressional staffers like Mr. Foster. How far does this go? Were they spying on members and other staff?”
The representative also penned a letter to the CEOs of Alphabet (the parent company of Google), Apple, AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon and to Attorney General Merrick Garland expressing his concerns and seeking more information.
“The Justice Department’s efforts to obtain the private communications of congressional staffers, including staffers conducting oversight of the Department, are wholly unacceptable and offend fundamental separation of powers principles as well as Congress’s constitutional authority to conduct oversight of the Department,” he said in the letter to Apple CEO Tim Cook.
The letter claims that the DOJ issued subpoenas to congressional staffers who were examining the department’s Crossfire Hurricane operation for the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence in order to obtain emails and records.
“These revelations strongly suggest that the Justice Department weaponized its law-enforcement authority to spy on the entities seeking to hold it accountable,” the letter said.
The House Judiciary Committee is also investigating allegations of politicization in the Hunter Biden investigation by having federal prosecutors appear for transcribed interviews behind closed doors.
An attorney for the Department of Justice’s Tax Division, Stuart Goldberg, is scheduled to sit for his interview on Wednesday, and Fox News has learned that U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California Martin Estrada will also sit for a transcribed interview.
