The Senate Judiciary Committee is considering whether to subpoena former FBI Director James Comey to appear before the committee following his testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Thursday. He initially had refused a request to testify to the Judiciary Committee.
Should Comey appear before the Judiciary Committee, he may be asked about his disclosure that he gave a “close friend” memos detailing his meetings with President Donald Trump. But he may also face questions about the bombshell lawsuit, filed Monday by a former U.S. intelligence contractor, that accused the FBI and CIA of illegally spying on millions of Americans, including Donald Trump, and accuses Comey of covering it up.
Dennis Montgomery, the former contractor, reportedly passed his findings on to the FBI and is now alleging that the intelligence agencies buried the follow-up investigation, according to a report from Circa.
The former contractor"s suit attempts to prove there was a "pattern and practice" of conducting "illegal, unconstitutional surveillance" of millions of Americans, including Supreme Court justices, 156 federal judges, prominent businessmen, and others such as Donald Trump, as well as the plaintiffs themselves.
Montgomery claims that he obtained 600 million pages of classified documents contained on 47 hard drives detailing how the FBI surveilled millions of Americans —on a far larger scale than whistleblower Edward Snowden uncovered.
"This domestic surveillance was all being done on computers supplied by the FBI," Montgomery told Circa. "So these supercomputers, which are FBI computers, the CIA is using them to do domestic surveillance."
"They"re doing this domestic surveillance on Americans, running a project on U.S. soil," Montgomery continued. "Can you imagine what someone can do with the information they were collecting on Americans, can you imagine that kind of power?"
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