Former Congressional Investigator Says DOJ Urged Court Not to Notify Him About Subpoena

The Department of Justice successfully ordered Google not to notify members of Congress or their staff for five consecutive years that their communications had been subpoenaed in 2017, according to former congressional investigator Jason Foster. Mr. Foster, who previously served as chief investigative counsel for Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) on the Senate Judiciary Committee, is the founder and chair of Empower Oversight Whistleblowers & Research. He made the claim in an interview for “Just the News, No Noise.” He had previously revealed in October that Google notified him that the Department of Justice (DOJ) had obtained his communication records in September 2017. Mr. Foster told host John Solomon on Nov. 14 that Google has since provided him with notifications the company received from the courts, signed by magistrate judges, showing that for the past five years, the DOJ had successfully asked a federal magistrate to delay notifying him that his data had been subpoenaed....