Dem rep defends DOJ obtaining GOP senator call records in 2023: 'You weren't surveilled'

A House Democrat defended the Department of Justice allegedly tracking the private communications and phone calls of nearly a dozen Republican senators in 2023, writing on X that, "you weren’t surveilled." Rep. Daniel Goldman, D-N.Y., made the remark after Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., said he was briefed on the matter by FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino. "We were surveilled simply for being Republicans," Johnson wrote on X. "This does not surprise me, but it should shock every American. What the Biden Administration has done is an outrageous abuse of power — it is blatant political persecution. Th