It is a disgrace that I have to stand on Capitol Hill and reveal this, that The FBI was once weaponized to track the private communications of U.S. lawmakers for political purposes. That error is over. Several of the senators who have allegedly been spied on not only spoke at the press conference which you just heard, but said that they are also going to be looking into this from a congressional standpoint. (15:25–15:34)
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Asserts that the FBI was used to track private communications of U.S. lawmakers for political purposes.
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