“The Committee is now engaged in an investigation of the Trump Administration’s surveillance of Members of Congress, the news media, and others. We must determine if the Department sought these sensitive records for improper political purposes. We must ask why the Department repeatedly pursued gag orders – preventing companies from notifying their users of the sweeping information requests by federal law enforcement – despite realizing early in the effort that no criminal charges would result from these investigations. Finally, because the news media, the Members of Congress identified in recent reports, and the former White House Counsel were so frequently targets of President Trump’s public ire, we must identify the full set of individuals who may have also been the targets of politically-motivated investigations” – Excerpt of letter from the House Judiciary Committee to Attorney General Merrick Garland.