(Gateway Pundit) The United States Department of Justice illegally surveilled Kash Patel and Jason Foster as the top GOP congressional lawyers investigated “Crossfire Hurricane,” the department’s codename for the Russian collusion probe.
New documents confirm the DoJ spied on Foster and Patel’s phone calls and emails in 2017 during an allegedly illegal “fishing expedition.”
Tejpal Chawla, a federal prosecutor and donor to Democrat campaigns, was one of the key culprits in the surveillance of the Republican attorneys.
In 2017, Congressional staffers launched an investigation into the US Attorney’s office over its “Crossfire Hurricane” probe, which alleged Trump colluded with Russia to steal the 2016 presidential election.
Chawla, an Assistant US Attorney in the Washington DC US Attorney’s office, subsequently subpoenaed phone records of the lawyers working for the Senate and House.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Tejpal Chawla.
A court seal concealing the seven-year-old subpoenas of the congressional lawyers recently expired and the targets of the Justice Department’s illegal surveillance scandal were notified by big tech firms they had been spied on.
Last week, Foster, former chief investigative counsel to then-Senate Judiciary Committee Chuck Grassley, received an email from Google revealing his phone calls had been surveilled as he served as a congressional watchdog.
