Cleaner Garland, hard at work

At least this was done through the DOJ. At least there is a process at DOJ

Here is a more dangerous prying into records. Shiff did this using only his power

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff's decision to publish the phone records of the president's personal attorneys, a journalist, a fellow lawmaker, a National Security Council aide, and others has sent a chill among Republicans concerned about the reach of a powerful chairman. Rep. Devin Nunes, ranking Republican on the committee, whose phone records were included among those released, called the move a "gross abuse of power."

The Intelligence Committee Democrats released publicly Tuesday, included records of some phone calls by presidential lawyers Rudy Giuliani and Jay Sekulow, Nunes, journalist John Solomon, Fox News host Sean Hannity, indicted Giuliani associate Lev Parnas, National Security Council aide and former Nunes staffer Kash Patel, lawyer Victoria Toensing, and unidentified people at the White House and Office of Management and Budget.
 
Democrats have abused their powers numerous times and nobody held them acccountable for all the times they abused their powers and crossed the lines. The swamp is quite deep and swamp creatures still all in charge covering for each other. It is a sad day for the US when, corrupt politicians and judges are way above the law and able to do what they damn please. In time, a good number of these corrupt politicians and their lackeys will all die due to health reasons, natural causes, accidents, decades on down, when patriots occupy the top echelons of power in our law enforcement agencies, they will find the huge and numerous abuses of power that occured. Those still alive will be tried for their crimes, those that got away with everything, Satan will be waiting for them in the afterlife to give them their justice.
 
Cuddles said:
https://thehill.com/policy/national...l-trump-and-biden-efforts-on-reporter-records

Unsealed documents detail Trump and Biden efforts on reporter records

Newly unsealed court records show the Trump Justice Department fought to secretly obtain the records of journalists up until former Attorney General Bill Barr’s last days in office, while a judge who ordered the records published called the Biden administration's attempts to keep them sealed “puzzling.”

The Dec. 22 request for records of three journalists from The Washington Post was part of a string of leaked investigations initiated under the Trump administration. The investigations included seeking records from reporters from two additional outlets, two Democratic lawmakers on the House Intelligence Committee, and even former White House counsel Don McGahn.

The files offer new details about the DOJ investigation, including how late into Barr’s tenure records were pursued, and how the agency suspected Congressional staff may be the source of information.

The articles targeted by investigators were referenced only by their dates, but likely include stories that Jared Kushner had discussed using Russian facilities for backchannel communications with the Kremlin and another stating that former Attorney General Jeff Session had discussed campaign matters with then-Russian Ambassador to the U.S. Sergey Kislyak.

The filings also show the Biden administration was fighting as late as June, even after news broke they had seized records from Post reporters, to keep its initial application sealed, arguing it contains “non-public investigative and witness information.”

But a Tuesday order from magistrate Judge Zia Faruqui said the government has an obligation to release the information now that the leak investigation has closed without any charges.

“Let there be no mistake: the government has a duty to 'mak[e] public appropriately redacted documents’ after an investigation is closed,” Faruqui wrote, noting that it was the government’s responsibility to redact the documents in order to facilitate the release.

“The government’s anti-redaxer stance is puzzling. … The ‘administrative burden of doing its job is no escape hatch from completing this task,” he said.

He went on to reference two different Harrison Ford movies.

“A sealed matter is not generally, as the government persists in imagining, ‘nailed into a nondescript crate, stored deep in a sprawling, uncataloged warehouse,’” Faruqui wrote, referencing a case that quoted "Indiana Jones and Raiders of the Lost Ark."

“Rather, it is merely frozen in carbonite, awaiting its eventual thawing,” he said, citing "Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back."

In the days following news that DOJ had obtained records from multiple outlets, the department said it “will not seek compulsory legal process in leak investigations to obtain source information from members of the news media doing their jobs.”

Advocates however, have pushed the department to seek legislation to codify the policy.
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