Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) revealed on Monday that the FBI under the Biden administration obtained private cellphone information from nine GOP lawmakers, including Senators Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), and Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) and Rep. Mike Kelly (R-Pa.). All of the targeted lawmakers are Republicans.
'We were surveilled simply for being Republicans.'
In breaking the news with an internal FBI document, Sen. Grassley wrote on X , "BIDEN FBI WEAPONIZATION = WORSE THAN WATERGATE."
Commenting on the news, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), who was also named in the document, said , "We were surveilled simply for being Republicans. ... It should shock every American." He called the surveillance "an outrageous abuse of power" and "blatant political pe