Rep. Darin LaHood (R-Ill.) on March 9 suggested that he was the subject of an unlawful Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) query.
The lawmaker made the comments during a hearing of the House Intelligence Committee on global threats.
In a 2021 report ordered by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC)—the closed-door judicial body that grants broad surveillance authority to intelligence officials—it was revealed that the FBI had used the FISA to spy on over 3.3 million Americans without a warrant.
One of the more than three million queries, the report revealed, was exercised against an unnamed person who was a sitting member of Congress when the query took place. During the hearing, LaHood expressed the belief that he was this person….