New court documents reveal that the Biden Administration’s Department of Justice (DOJ) had previously secured court orders forbidding Google from letting congressional staffers know when they were being spied on by the DOJ.
According to the Daily Caller, five court orders were released on Monday after the legal group Empower Oversight filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for the records in question. The DOJ had been actively monitoring the communications of all Capitol Hill staffers who were conducting oversight of the department.
Jason Foster, the founder of Empower Oversight, was one of the staffers targeted for surveillance by the DOJ in 2017.
“IT IS THEREFORE ORDERED that, pursuant to l8 U.S.C. g 2705(b). Google and its employees shall not disclose the existence of the subpoena to any other person (except attorneys for Google for the purpose of receiving legal advice) for a period of one year (commencing on the date of this Order) or until further court order or whichever is sooner,” reads the September 2017 court order, which was signed by a U.S. Magistrate Judge in the District of Columbia.
The investigation by the DOJ is apparently connected…
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