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Federal agents disguised as construction workers attempted to search the office of Congressman Troy Nehls (R-Texas), the House rep claims.
In a Twitter thread Tuesday detailing government surveillance of him over the past few months, Rep. Nehls said agents with the Capitol Police Intelligence Division have been snooping inside of his office when Congress is in recess, taking photos of “confidential legislative products” that should be under constitutional protection.
On November 20th, 2021, Capitol Police entered my office without my knowledge and photographed confidential legislative products protected by the Speech and Debate clause enshrined in the Constitution, Article 1 Section 6.
— Congressman Troy Nehls (@RepTroyNehls) February 8, 2022
“On November 20th, 2021, Capitol Police entered my office without my knowledge and photographed confidential legislative products protected by the Speech and Debate clause enshrined in the Constitution, Article 1 Section 6,” Nehls tweeted Tuesday.
“Two days later on Monday November 22, 2021 (Thanksgiving week), three intelligence officers attempted to enter my office while the House was in recess.”
Upon discovering a member of my staff, special agents dressed like construction workers began to question him as to the contents of a photograph taken illegally two days earlier.
— Congressman Troy Nehls (@RepTroyNehls) February 8, 2022
Rep. Nehls says the officers were met by a staffer who was in his office at the time.
The staffer said the agents were wearing disguises and interrogated him about photos they’d illegally taken inside the office days earlier.
They had no authority to photograph my office, let alone investigate myself or members of my staff.
So, why is the Capitol Police Leadership maliciously investigating me in an attempt to destroy me and my character?
— Congressman Troy Nehls (@RepTroyNehls) February 8, 2022
The photos reportedly showed “a whiteboard in Nehls legislative office detailing various legislative plans being considered by Nehls and his staff,” according to the Federalist.
In a police report later, a Capitol officer claimed he discovered the door open to Nehls’ office while on a routine patrol and photographed the whiteboard because it contained “suspicious writings mentioning body armor.”
More on the police report from the Federalist:
The officer reportedly took a photo of the whiteboard, which was then passed around to analysts within USCP. The following Monday, USCP dispatched three plain-clothed intelligence officers to Nehls’ office and questioned a staffer who was there about the whiteboard and the legislative proposals it contained.
The impromptu investigation curiously came on the heels of a Washington Post report “days earlier about a Texas federal contractor who defrauded the United States by supplying Chinese-made body armor vs. armor made in the US,” Zero Hedge notes.
The congressman is perturbed by the goings-on, saying, “They had no authority to photograph my office, let alone investigate myself or members of my staff. So, why is the Capitol Police Leadership maliciously investigating me in an attempt to destroy me and my character?”
Nehls, who says neither he nor senior staff have been informed of an investigation, theorizes the officers are acting as henchmen for the Democrat Party over his criticism of the Jan. 6 House Select Committee and Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.).
Maybe it is because I have been a vocal critic of @SpeakerPelosi, the @January6thCmte, and @CapitolPolice leadership about their handling of January 6th, the death of Ashli Babbitt and the subsequent SHAM investigation.
— Congressman Troy Nehls (@RepTroyNehls) February 8, 2022
“Maybe it is because I have been a vocal critic of @SpeakerPelosi, the @January6thCmte, and @CapitolPolice leadership about their handling of January 6th, the death of Ashli Babbitt and the subsequent SHAM investigation,” Nehls wrote.
The US Capitol Police inspector general has opened a formal investigation into the allegations of improper surveillance and profiling of Nehls and other sitting members of Congress and their staff.
“While I am confident in our methods, I am asking the USCP Office of the Inspector General to review the USCP’s programs related to these security assessments to assure both this Committee, the Congress as a whole, and the public that these processes are legal, necessary, and appropriate,” US Capitol Poilce Chief J. Thomas Manger wrote in a letter to seven Republican lawmakers.
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