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Trump's DOJ secretly obtained phone and text message logs of 43 congressional staffers and 2 members of Congress
The Justice Department's investigations into leaks of classified information were far broader than previously known, according to the department's internal watchdog.
The report by Inspector General Michael Horowitz found that the DOJ didn’t act with political motives, but failed to take sufficient account of constitutional separation of powers by seizing communications records of staffers and lawmakers — and making them subjects of a criminal investigation — only because they had lawful access to state secrets through their jobs. The Justice Department’s new policy requiring officials to notify a news organization if they decide to subpoena reporter phone records except in emergency circumstances could easily be repealed by the new administration. "As these abuses demonstrate, there are few guardrails preventing a lone prosecutor or the Attorney General, the Department of Justice or even state or local law enforcement from spying on Congress and threatening our constitutional system of checks and balances," Wyden said in a statement.
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