House Intelligence Committee Chair Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) is urging Attorney General Merrick Garland to investigate what he calls âgross abusesâ in the Department of Justice under former President Donald Trump.
âI think really needs to do a wholesale review of all of the politicization of the department over the last four years,â Schiff said during an interview on CBS Newsâ âFace The Nation.â
He continued, âWhat happened to our committee, what happened to members of the press, thatâs just a subset.â
The California Democrat went on to cite the âdirect intervention by the president and the attorney general in specific criminal cases implicating the presidentâ in the cases of former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn and Trump ally Roger Stone.
âThese are gross abuses of the independence of the Justice Department, and we donât know how far they run, and our new attorney general has to find out,â he added.
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Schiffâs comments come after it was revealed that the DOJ under Trump subpoenaed the records of Schiff and Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) who serve on the House Intelligence Committee as part of a leak investigation.
Additionally, it was reported that the DOJ under Trump secretly seized the phone records of four reporters at The New York Times, as well as the phone records of a CNN reporter in leak investigations.
