.MaddowBlog: Since the subpoenas couldn't have materialized out of thin air, the need for answers seems obvious. GOP lawmakers aren't at all eager to hear the answers.
that federal investigators secretly seize communications records from at least two Democratic members of Congress, some of their staffers, and even some their family members.any damning evidence, and all of this had been kept secret, with the Justice Department securing a gag order on Apple, so that the targeted lawmakers, aides, and their families wouldn't know that they'd been targeted.suggests the controversy is still intensifying -- and isn't limited to Capitol Hill.
It's not at all clear why the Justice Department would have any interest in secretly obtaining Don McGahn's communications records, but as the' report added,"[T]he disclosure that agents had collected data of a sitting White House counsel, which they kept secret for years, is extraordinary." Almost immediately thereafter, then-president pushed McGahn to issue a false public statement, contradicting the accurate reporting. When the Republican lawyer refused that directive, too, Trump beganAnd then the Justice Department thought it'd be a good idea to quietly subpoena McGahn's communications records.
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