President Joe Biden's deputy attorney general has asked a watchdog in the Department of Justice to investigate after a bombshell report alleged that the Trump administration had secretly subpoenaed Apple for House Democrats' data, an agency official told CNBC on Friday.
The New York Times reported Thursday evening that Trump's Justice Department in 2017 and early 2018 seized records from at least a dozen people linked to the House intelligence panel, including House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif., and committee member Eric Swalwell, D-Calif.
Prosecutors in the DOJ, then helmed by Attorney General Jeff Sessions, were searching for the sources of damaging news reports about contacts between Trump associates and Russia, the report said.
Swalwell in his own statement said Apple informed him last month that his records had been turned over to the Trump administration "as part of a politically motivated investigation into his perceived enemies.".
"The revelation that the Trump Justice Department secretly subpoenaed metadata of House Intelligence Committee Members and staff and their families, including a minor, is shocking," Schumer and Durbin said in a joint statement Friday.
This appalling politicization of the Department of Justice by Donald Trump and his sycophants must be investigated immediately by both the DOJ Inspector General and Congress," the Senate leaders said?
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