Attorney General Jeff Sessions said Tuesday that the feds will probe alleged abuses of FISA warrants.
Sessions confirmed that the Justice Department will look into alleged misconduct by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court amid ongoing complaints about the system by President Trump.
“We believe the Department of Justice must adhere to the high standards in the FISA court,” Sessions said during a news conference Tuesday.
“Yes, it will be investigated. And I think that’s just the appropriate thing the inspector general will take that as one of the matters he’ll deal with.”
Trump has blasted the court for allegedly relying on bogus information to spy on his aides.
“House votes on controversial FISA ACT today,” Trump tweeted in January.
“This is the act that may have been used, with the help of the discredited and phony Dossier, to so badly surveil and abuse the Trump Campaign by the previous administration and others?”
FISA warrants were used to monitor various former Trump campaign aides — some of whom were eventually indicted on federal crimes.