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By ERIC TUCKER, Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican lawmakers decried Tuesday what they said were invasive tactics in the investigation of President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election, pressing representatives from leading telecommunications companies about their role in providing prosecutors with phone records of certain sitting members of Congress.
“If the shoe were on the other foot, it’d be front-page news all over the world that Republicans went after sitting Democratic senators’ phone records,” said Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, who was among the Republicans in Congress whose records were accessed by prosecutors as they examined contacts between the president and allies on Capitol Hill.
“I just want to let you know,” he added, “I don’t think I deserve what happened to me.”
Lawyers for the companies defended their actions at a Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing, stressing that they had simply followed the law by turning over records under a subpoena even as they also acknowledged that more could be done to respect lawmakers’ expectations of privacy.
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