Pelosi Demands Two Ex-Trump Officials Testify On "Rogue" Surveillance

Nancy Pelosi said it was essential to determine whether those involved in the operation -- whose targets included intelligence committee chairman Adam Schiff, a Democrat -- are still in the Justice Department.

US House speaker Nancy Pelosi on Sunday demanded that two former attorneys general testify about what she called a "rogue" Justice Department attempt to secretly obtain data from Democrat lawmakers and news outlets. "What the (Trump) administration did -- the Justice Department, the leadership of the former president -- goes even beyond Richard Nixon," she said on CNN, referring to the Watergate scandal that ended the Nixon presidency. Democrats expressed outrage Friday over news that the Trump Justice Department had secretly surveilled Democrats probing possible collusion with Russia, securing the phone records of top political foes -- and even of family members including a child -- in what they called an unprecedented abuse of power. The department also seized records of reporters from CNN, the Washington Post and the New York Times without their knowledge.