Obama Judge Aided in Spying on GOP, May Have Broken Federal Law in Doing So
An Obama-appointed judge may have violated federal law by greenlighting a Biden Department of Justice effort to secretly secure Republican lawmakers’ private cell phone data.
Chief Judge of the D.C. District Court James Boasberg signed orders in 2023 preventing cell phone carriers from notifying 11 Republican members of Congress about special counsel Jack Smith’s subpoenas seeking their cell phone data from Jan. 4 and Jan. 7, 2021.
The subpoenas were part of Smith’s investigation to build his 2020 election case against President Donald Trump. They sought “records for inbound and outbound calls, text messages, direct connect, and voicemail messages” from Republican members, though he did not request contents of any messages, according to records released by Senate Judiciary Chair Chuck Grassley.
The judge claimed disclosing the subpoenas could “result in destruction of or tampering with evidence” to justify keeping them hidden, records show.
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