FBI Retaliated Against Two Nunes Staffers During Russia Hoax Investigation

While former Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) was still in office and he and his team were investigating the misconduct of the FBI in relation to the Russia Collusion Hoax, the bureau allegedly retaliated against two of his staffers.

Nunes served as the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee from January 2015 to January 2019, where he conducted an extensive investigation into Russiagate.

In a new letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) revealed that the bureau may have spied on two of Nunes’ staffers.

Kash Patel, who served as chief of staff to the acting Secretary of Defense under former President Donald Trump, previously came forward as one of the two staffers who was subpoenaed. The other staffer has not been identified thus far.

Jordan asked the FBI director why the bureau had secretly sought the private communications of these staffers — citing subpoenas issued to Google in 2017 that demanded emails and cellphone data of the then-House Intelligence Committee staffers, and arguing that they were part of an effort to retaliate for their role in investigating the FBI.

“In 2017, Google reportedly received subpoenas for private emails and records belonging to two Republican staffers of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) while HPSCI was investigating the FBI’s misconduct,” the Ohio congressman wrote.

“These subpoenas only came to light in 2022 due to Google’s policy of alerting customers five years after law enforcement takes such action. The timing of these subpoenas raise questions about whether the subpoenas were in retaliation for HPSCI’s oversight of the FBI,” Jordan added.

These subpoenas came at the same time that Nunes was struggling to compel the Department of Justice (DOJ) and FBI to hand over documents that he needed in order to prove that the Russia Collusion Hoax was prompted by a dossier funded by two-time failed Democrat presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.

According to Just The News, the subpoenas demanded Google turn over records such as “all customer and subscriber account information,” “addresses (including mailing addresses, residential addresses, business addresses, and e-mail addresses,” user names, “screen names,” “local and long distance telephone connection records,” as well as the “means and source of payment for such service (including any credit card or bank account number) and billing records.”

Patel spoke out about the FBI’s spying on himself and the other staffer in a statement to the New York Post last year.

“The two-tier system of justice was alive in 2017 – this time spying on Capitol Hill staffers,” he wrote in the statement. “The DOJ and FBI subpoenaed my personal records while I was Chief Counsel uncovering their corruption in Russia gate, and they used a Grand Jury to obtain it. Every member of Congress and every Capitol Hill staffer should be demanding investigations. Using law enforcement to execute political vendettas is a destruction of our Constitution, and it was brought to you by those charged with its ultimate protection – [former Attorney General Rod] Rosenstein and Wray.”

Patel has since announced a lawsuit against numerous current and former government officials in response to the spying.

Jordan has given the FBI a deadline of July 27 to hand over all documents and communications related to the seizing of emails and cell phone data of the two staffers.