A nonprofit watchdog group filed suit on Tuesday in federal court seeking to force the Department of Justice (DOJ) to make public documents about the government’s surveillance of a bipartisan group of congressional staff investigators.
The group previously submitted five Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests for DOJ records concerning the surveillance that began in 2016.
The DOJ acknowledged the requests but never provided the documents. A spokesman for the DOJ did not respond to a request for comment.
The surveillance was accomplished via government demands on Google and other internet service providers for copies of correspondence and related documents by multiple congressional investigators. The court filing includes copies of subpoenas issued by the DOJ to Google and other service providers, seeking a broad range of records related to their accounts….