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Conservative watchdog group files lawsuit against DOJ for communications records

By Zach Halaschak
Published April 4, 2019 6:52pm ET
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Conservative watchdog group files lawsuit against DOJ for communications records
An American flag flies outside the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) headquarters in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Friday, Feb. 2, 2018. Federal Bureau of Investigation and Justice Department officials got a warrant to spy on a Trump campaign associate by misleading a surveillance court judge, House Republicans contend in a newly released memo that Democrats have dismissed as a contrived account intended to protect the president. | (T.J. Kirkpatrick/Bloomberg)

Conservative watchdog Judicial Watch has filed a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the Justice Department for communication records relating to the inception of the FBI’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, the group announced Thursday.

Judicial Watch said the lawsuit was lodged because the DOJ didn’t adequately respond to a Freedom of Information Act request filed more than a year ago that sought communication records of key U.S. officials dating from January 2016 to May 2017.

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