{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.grassley.senate.gov/news/news-releases/grassley-on-ig-review-of-doj-congressional-records-collection", "Grassley on IG Review of DOJ Congressional Records Collection", "2024-12-10", "2024", "2024-12", "Republican", "Senate", "IA", "Chuck Grassley", "G000386", "www.grassley.senate.gov", "grassley", "https://www.grassley.senate.gov/news/news-releases", "scraper", "WASHINGTON \u2013 Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), today issued a statement on the Department of Justice Office of Inspector General (DOJ OIG) report regarding DOJ\u2019s covert collection of congressional members and staffers\u2019 communications records, including former members of his own investigative staff. Grassley last year urged DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz to \u201cleave no stone unturned\u201d in his review of DOJ congressional surveillance.\n\n\u201cHere we go again. As I warned years ago with DOJ\u2019s rampant FISA abuses during Crossfire Hurricane, DOJ\u2019s snooping has the real potential to chill congressional oversight and violate civil liberties. Today\u2019s OIG report proves my point and paints a clearer picture of DOJ\u2019s bad faith conduct. The report demonstrates how DOJ withheld information from individuals impacted by agency surveillance, without legitimate basis for doing so. It also demonstrates how DOJ used boilerplate language to renew these gag orders and, in one case, even after they had already determined the subject likely had nothing to do with the leaks in question. Lastly, it shows DOJ secured broad authorizations for records collections \u2013 allowing it to scoop up information from a wide range of bipartisan members, staffers and news media, while failing to comply with all internal policy.\n\n\u201cIt\u2019s plain to see DOJ overstepped its authority here. The Justice Department ought to learn from its mistakes and accept accountability, because Congress won\u2019t accept any less. The incoming Trump administration must take steps to ensure these problems, which were driven by career attorneys at the Justice Department, are fixed.\u201d", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-07T22:13:55Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.grassley.senate.gov/news/news-releases/grassley-on-ig-review-of-doj-congressional-records-collection"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.9556710720062256, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}