The Weekly Standard ^ | 5/16/2013 | Daniel Halper
California congressman David Nunes made the claim yesterday that the Justice
Department wiretapped telephones in the House of Representative's Cloak Room, an
exclusive part of the Capitol where members are able to privately interact with
one another. Nunes made the claim on Hugh Hewitt's radio show.
"I don’t trust the Department of Justice on this," said Hewitt, referring to
the subpoenas the Justice Department to obtain the Associated Press's phone
records. "Do you, Congressman Nunes?"
"No, I absolutely do not, especially after this wiretapping incident,
essentially, of the House of Representative. I don’t think people are focusing
on the right thing when they talk about going after the AP reporters. The big
problem that I see is that they actually tapped right where I’m sitting right
now, the Cloak Room," Nunes respond.
Hewitt was surprised. "Wait a minute, this is news to me," he said.
"The Cloak Room in the House of Representatives," Nunes repeated.
Hewitt again expressed surprise. "I have no idea what you’re talking about,"
said the radio host.
"So when they went after the AP reporters, right? Went after all of their
phone records, they went after the phone records, including right up here in the
House Gallery, right up from where I’m sitting right now. So you have a real
separation of powers issue that did this really rise to the level that you would
have to get phone records that would, that would most likely include members of
Congress, because as you know," Nunes claimed.
Hewitt responed by saying, "Wow."
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