The Capitol Police aren’t the only feds spying on GOP congressmen, Texas Representative Louie Gohmert said Tuesday — the congressman accused the Department of Justice of opening his mail.
Gohmert’s accusation of DOJ’s inappropriate surveillance came the same day that fellow Texan Troy Nehls, also a Republican, accused the Capitol Hill cops of illegally entering his office and photographing legislative material.
The charges raise the question of whether the White House is conspiring with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to use federal lawmen to intimidate GOP congressmen by poking into their private affairs.
X-Rayed at DOJ
Gohmert reported yesterday that, for some reason, his mail is landing at the Department of Justice.
“In January, my staff received a letter addressed to my official office from a Christian missionary, which was already opened and stamped ‘DOJ MAILROOM’ with a date and ‘X-RAYED’ on the stamp.” He continued:
Last week, my office received a second piece of mail from a constituent, mailed from east Texas and postmarked September 2021. It took four-and-a-half months to reach my office and was also opened and bore a stamp from the DOJ.
Gohmert wants to know how and why congressional and executive-branch mail is being “co-mingled … when we have completely different proprietary zip codes.”
And even if such a mistake were to be made, “DOJ has an obligation to immediately notify Congress and forward the mail without opening it”:
It is gravely concerning that since Congressional mail is constitutionally protected under the Speech and Debate Clause of the Constitution, it could be routed, intentionally or not, through the highly partisan DOJ. This is felonious behavior.
Given reports breaking today of an Inspector General’s investigation being opened after another Republican member alleged Speaker Pelosi’s Capitol Police were in his personal office photographing his work product, the Democrat’s spying on political opponents appears to know no end.
Additionally, Pelosi apparently has created a surveillance operation to keep track of who enters congressional offices:
The Speaker has already required offices to turn in names, dates, and times of our meetings, along with the purpose of the meeting, for our constituents to be allowed entrance into our office buildings to meet with their duly-elected member of Congress. Then, we are told, she has the Capitol Police doing opposition research that is catalogued for later use. We have never ever seen a Congress so partisan to such an unethical and illegal extent. The people behind this should be hoping and praying that they will not be treated in the same manner in which they are running roughshod over Republicans when and if Republicans retake the majority.
Nehls Searched
Gohmert’s complaint closely followed Nehls’. On Twitter Tuesday, the former sheriff accused Capitol Hill cops of illegally searching his office.
On November 20, he alleged, cops “photographed confidential legislative products protected by the Speech and Debate clause enshrined in the Constitution, Article 1 Section 6.”
Two days later, during the Thanksgiving break, he continued, “three intelligence officers attempted to enter my office while the House was in recess”:
Upon discovering a member of my staff, special agents dressed like construction workers began to question him as to the contents of a photograph taken illegally two days earlier.
Capitol Police intelligence analysts have initiated an inspector general’s probe to find out what happened.
In January, Politico reported, the agency’s intelligence chief ordered “analysts to run ‘background checks’ on people whom lawmakers planned to meet, including donors and associates. When staff were listed as attending these meetings, Capitol Police intelligence analysts also got asked to check the social media accounts of the staffers.”
“I’m being targeted right now,” Nehls told Fox’s Tucker Carlson last night. “I believe that Nancy Pelosi is weaponizing the U.S. Capitol Police to investigate me, to try to silence me, intimidate me, and quite honestly, to destroy me.”
The question is how widespread Pelosi’s spying operation is, and how far she will go in violating the U.S. Constitution to retain power as November’s midterm elections approach. As The New American previously reported, the select committee investigating the mostly peaceful protest at the U.S. Capitol last year is illegally conducting what appears to be a criminal probe and using subpoena power it does not have.
Let’s not forget that after that protest, Pelosi discussed a military coup against President Trump.
