The conservative watchdog group American Center for Law and Justice has filed a lawsuit over a Freedom of Information Act request concerning two FBI officials the group claims were "spies" for former FBI director James Comey, the Washington Examiner reports.
The group, which was founded by Pat Robertson and is led by President Donald Trump's attorney Jay Sekulow, filed a lawsuit against the FBI in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, seeking "all" of Comey's emails from April 1, 2016 to May 31, 2017, along with a broad range of documents.
"If these Deep State agencies will not comply with the law until a federal court forces them to, then we'll keep filing federal lawsuits and taking them to court," the group said in a statement to the Examiner.
The FOIA request came about after RealClearInvestigations reported in July that Justice Department inspector general Michael Horowitz was set to file a report containing evidence that Comey misled the president, quoting two U.S. officials as saying the former bureau director was essentially "running a covert operation against" Trump when he was leading the FBI.
"The indications are those individuals were reporting directly back to James Comey," Sekulow told Fox News on Wednesday, according to the Examiner. "So what he did was he took [the] counterintelligence investigation that was taking place during the presidential campaign, brought it into the White House when the president was sworn in as no longer president-elect, but in fact as president."
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