The Justice Department under President-elect Donald Trump’s first administration, during leak investigations, subpoenaed phone records from two lawmakers and 43 bipartisan congressional staffers who had access to classified information.
Records were obtained as prosecutors pursued investigations over leaks of classified information to media outlets in 2017 and 2018.
While the watchdog’s investigation found no evidence of political motives, it concluded that “dozens of congressional staffers became part of the subject pool in a federal criminal investigation for doing nothing more than performing constitutionally authorized oversight of the executive branch.”
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