FBI Director Christopher Wray’s resignation announcement was the latest, and inevitable, step in the accumulation of massive and unusual power around President-elect Donald Trump.

The U.S. Justice Department's internal watchdog said on Tuesday that prosecutors' decision to subpoena phone and email records from members of Congress and their staff during President-elect Donald Trump's first term risked a chilling effect on congressional oversight.

A Justice Department inspector general report raised concerns about the ways in which prosecutors in the first Trump administration seized records.

The Department of Justice secretly obtained phone records from two Democratic members of Congress and more than three dozen staffers during Donald Trump’s first administration, according to a new report from the agency’s watchdog.

The U.S. Justice Department's internal watchdog said on Tuesday that prosecutors' decision to subpoena records from members of Congress and their staff during President-elect Donald Trump's first term risked a chilling effect on congressional oversight.

The Justice Department's internal watchdog found no evidence of political motivation by federal prosecutors who subpoenaed the communication records of two Democratic members of Congress, congressional staffers as well as reporters as part of leak investigations during the first Trump administration.

The US Department of Justice’s internal watchdog expressed concern over investigations into information leaks during Donald Trump’s first administration. These investigations targeted members of Congress and the media.