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DOJ Subpoenaed Google To Access Personal Info Of House Staffers During
Russia-Trump Probe: Report

https://www.theepochtimes.com/doj-subpoenaed-google-to-access-personal-info-of-house-staffers-during-russia-trump-probe-report_4934450.html
https://justthenews.com/accountability/russia-and-ukraine-scandals/doj-spied-house-intelligence-committee-investigators
https://justthenews.com/sites/default/files/2022-12/KashPatelSubpoena.pdf

https://www.theepochtimes.com/the-inside-story-of-how-spygate-was-uncovered-lead-investigator-kash-patel-tells-all_3740323.html

The Department of Justice (DOJ) allegedly used grand jury subpoenas to
secretly access personal information belonging to House Republican
staffers – including email communications, residential addresses, and
cellphone data – while Republican lawmakers simultaneously worked to
obtain evidence that the FBI’s investigation into the now disproven
Trump–Russia collusion narrative was false, according to a report by
Just the News.

The subpoenas were obtained by Just the News, and were issued at a
time when then-chair of the House Intelligence Committee Devin Nunes
(R-Calif.) struggled to get the FBI and DOJ to hand over documents to
the committee while he sought to establish that the allegations made
against former President Donald Trump were being driven by the
infamous Steele dossier.

Research in the Steele dossier was paid for by the Hillary Clinton
campaign and the Democratic National Committee and commissioned by
Washington-based private intelligence firm Fusion GPS.

The subpoenas (pdf) show that the DOJ requested that tech giant Google
hand over documents containing the personal information of at least
two top House Intelligence Committee staffers in November 2017: former
Intelligence Committee senior counsel Kash Patel, and another unnamed
staffer.

Google responded to the subpoena requests by Dec. 5, 2017, roughly a
month after they were issued, according to the publication.

Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.)
holds a copy of the Steele Dossier during a Senate Judiciary Committee
hearing on Capitol Hill on Dec. 11, 2019. (Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty
Images)
Google Notifies GOP Staffers of Information Request

Just the News reports that the subpoenas have only recently come to
light because Google, in line with its five-year policy, informed the
former committee staffers that their records had been handed over to
law enforcement.

Google’s policy regarding government agencies requesting it disclose
user information states: “We carefully review each request to make
sure it satisfies applicable laws. If a request asks for too much
information, we try to narrow it, and in some cases, we object to
producing any information at all.”

The tech giant noted that it will send an email to the user account
before disclosing personal information to the relevant government
agency, although this is not the case when “legally prohibited under
the terms of the request.”

The subpoena for Patel shows that the FBI and DOJ requested a string
of information from Google, including subscriber names, screen names,
and user names; addresses including mailing addresses, residential
addresses, business addresses, and email addresses, local and
long-distance telephone connection records, records of session times
and durations, length of service and types of service utilized, and
personal telephone numbers.

It also requested information pertaining to the “means and source of
payment for such service (including any credit card or bank account
number) and billing records.”

The subpoena issued to the other unnamed former staffer requested the
same, according to Just the News. It is unclear from the subpoena who
was leading the investigation into Patel and the other staffer.

Former President Donald Trump speaks with EpochTV’s Kash Patel at his
Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Fla., on Jan. 31, 2022. (The Epoch
Times)

Patel was personally recruited by Nunes to spearhead the investigation
into the FBI’s handling of the Russia–Trump probe.

In an interview with The Epoch Times in March 2021, Patel said:

    “It would be beneficial to the American public for the FBI to
disclose who they surveilled in this Trump orbit, and more
importantly, how.”

    “The lengths they were willing to go just to try to get a
narrative to become true—which is never the purpose of an
investigation at the Department of Justice—you’re supposed to follow
an investigation and see if there’s a crime. You’re not supposed to
try to come up with a political narrative and have the ends justify
the means,” Patel added.

Despite winning the election over Clinton in 2016, Trump was dogged by
the collusion allegations for years after.

The former president went on to sue Clinton, Steele, and several other
Democrats in March 2022, claiming they carried out a plot to “weave a
false narrative” that he was colluding with Russian actors.

The lawsuit was thrown out by U.S. District Judge Donald Middlebrooks,
an appointee of former President Bill Clinton, in September, with the
judge stating that it “does not establish that Plaintiff is entitled
to any relief” and that the claims presented in it “are not warranted
under existing law.”