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PPSA Freedom of Information Act Request: Has the Government Purchased Data to Spy on Members of Congress?

7/27/2021

 
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This week the Project for Privacy and Surveillance Accountability filed Freedom of Information requests with the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and other intelligence agencies asking for records concerning the possible purchases of information on the communications of current and former Members of Congress who have served on the U.S. House and Senate judiciary committees.
 
This action is inspired by two intersecting events recently brought to light. One is the revelation that two Members of Congress, their staff and family members, were the targets of surveillance efforts by the Trump Administration, which seized their metadata from Apple. The other is the heightened scrutiny from Sen. Ron Wyden of government agencies’ practice of getting around the need for warrants by simply purchasing metadata from data brokers.
 
The list of representatives in the request include Jerrold Nadler, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, ranking member Jim Jordan, Sen. Dick Durbin and ranking member Sen. Chuck Grassley. The whole list, drawn from both houses, include:

  • Rep. Jerrold Nadler
  • Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon
  • Rep. Zoe Lofgren
  • Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee
  • Rep. Steve Cohen
  • Rep. Henry C. “Hank” Johnson
  • Rep. Theodore E. Deutch
  • Rep. Karen Bass
  • Rep. Hakeem Jeffries
  • Rep. David N. Cicilline
  • Rep. Eric Swalwell
  • Rep. Ted Lieu
  • Rep. Jamie Raskin
  • Rep. Pramila Jayapal
  • Rep. Val Butler Demings
  • Rep. J. Luis Correa
  • Rep. Sylvia R. Garcia
  • Rep. Joe Neguse
  • Rep. Lucy McBath
  • Rep. Greg Stanton
  • Rep. Madeleine Dean
  • Rep. Veronica Escobar
  • Rep. Steve Chabot
  • Rep. Louie Gohmert
  • Rep. Jim Jordan
  • Rep. Ken Buck
  • Rep. Matt Gaetz
  • Rep. Mike Johnson
  • Rep. Andy Biggs
  • Rep. Tom McClintock
  • Rep. Debbie Lesko
  • Rep. Guy Reschenthaler
  • Rep. Ben Cline
  • Rep. Kelly Armstrong
  • Rep. W. Gregory Steube
  • Rep. John Rutherford
  • Rep. Mark Amodei
  • Rep. Judy Chu
  • Rep. Scott Peters
  • Rep. Bobby Scott
  • Rep. Maxine Waters
  • Rep. Michael Quigley
  • Rep. Linda Sanchez
  • Rep. Adam Schiff
  • Rep. Mondaire Jones
  • Rep. Deborah K. Ross
  • Rep. Cori Bush
  • Rep. Tom Tiffany
  • Rep. Thomas Massie
  • Rep. Chip Roy
  • Rep. Dan Bishop
  • Rep. Michelle Fischbach
  • Rep. Victoria Spartz
  • Rep. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Rep. Cliff Bentz
  • Rep. Burgess Owens
  • Former Rep. Bob Goodlatte
  • Former Rep. Lamar S. Smith
  • Former Rep. Darrell Issa
  • Former Rep. Steve King
  • Former Rep. Ted Poe
  • Former Rep. Tom Marino
  • Former Rep. Trey Gowdy
  • Former Rep. Raul Labrador
  • Former Rep. Ron DeSantis
  • Former Rep. Karen Handel
  • Former Rep. Keith Rothfus
  • Former Rep. Luis Gutierrez
  • Former Rep. Randy Forbes
  • Former Rep. Trent Franks
  • Former Rep. Jason Chaffetz
  • Former Rep. Blake Farenthold
  • Former Rep. Mimi Walters
  • Former Rep. Dave Trott
  • Former Rep. Mike Bishop
  • Former Rep. John Conyers
  • Former Rep. Pedro Pierluisi
  • Former Rep. Howard Coble
  • Former Rep. Elton Gallegly
  • Former Rep. Dan Lungren
  • Former Vice President and Former Rep. Mike Pence
  • Former Rep. Timothy Griffin
  • Former Rep. Dennis A. Ross
  • Former Rep. Sandy Adams
  • Former Rep. Ben Quayle
  • Former Rep. Howard Berman
  • Former Rep. Mel Watt
  • Former Rep. Jared Polis
  • Former Rep. Rick Boucher
  • Former Rep. Bill Delahunt
  • Sen. and Former Rep. Tammy Baldwin
  • Former Rep. Charlie Gonzalez
  • Former Rep. Anthony Weiner
  • Former Rep. Dan Maffei
  • Former Rep. Tom Rooney
  • Former Rep. Gregg Harper
  • Former Rep. Spencer Bachus
  • Former Rep. Suzan DelBene
  • Former Rep. Joe Garcia
  • Former Rep. Cedric Richmon
  • Former Rep. Debbie Mucarsel-Powell
  • Former Rep. Doug Collins
  • Former Rep. F. James Sensenbrenner
  • Former Rep. John Ratcliffe
  • Former Rep. Martha Roby
  • Former Rep. George Holding
  • Sen. Lindsey Graham
  • Sen. Dianne Feinstein
  • Sen. Chuck Grassley
  • Sen. Patrick Leahy
  • Sen. John Cornyn
  • Sen. Dick Durbin
  • Sen. Michael S. Lee
  • Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse
  • Sen. Ted Cruz
  • Sen. Amy Klobuchar
  • Sen. Ben Sasse
  • Sen. Christopher A. Coons
  • Sen. Joshua D. Hawley
  • Sen. Richard Blumenthal
  • Sen. Thom Tillis
  • Sen. Mazie Hirono
  • Sen. Joni Ernst
  • Sen. Cory Booker
  • Sen. Mike Crapo
  • Sen. John Kennedy
  • Sen. Marsha Blackburn
  • Sen. Chuck Schumer
  • Sen. Ron Wyden
  • Sen. Alex Padilla
  • Sen. Jon Ossoff
  • Vice President and Former Sen. Kamala Harris
  • Former Sen. Orrin Hatch
  • Former Sen. Jeff Flake
  • Former Sen. Al Franken
  • Former Sen. Jeff Sessions
  • Former Sen. David Vitter
  • Former Sen. Herb Kohl
  • Former Sen. Tom Coburn
  • Former Sen. Jon Kyl
  • Former Sen. Ben Cardin
  • Former Sen. Russ Feingold
  • Former Sen. Ted Kaufman
  • Former Sen. Arlen Specter
  • Former Sen. David Perdue

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