{"id":631,"date":"2026-09-04T19:53:22","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T19:53:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/04\/virginia-congressman-claims-fbi-doj-wiretapped-calls-with-state-lawmaker\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T19:53:22","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T19:53:22","slug":"virginia-congressman-claims-fbi-doj-wiretapped-calls-with-state-lawmaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/04\/virginia-congressman-claims-fbi-doj-wiretapped-calls-with-state-lawmaker\/","title":{"rendered":"Virginia Congressman Claims FBI, DOJ Wiretapped Calls with State Lawmaker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Republican officials confirmed they intercepted calls between a Virginia lawmaker and a federal legislator, according to statements released Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Suhas Subramanyam (D-Va.) disclosed that the FBI and Department of Justice sent him correspondence dated July and August informing him their surveillance included some of his telephone conversations with a Virginia state legislator.<\/p>\n<p>The congressman&#8217;s office distributed photographs of the two notification letters, which Subramanyam said he received directly from the agencies.<\/p>\n<p>The disclosure raises questions about the scope of federal monitoring involving state-level political figures and the protocols for notifying targets of surveillance activities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Suhas Subramanyam says federal agencies notified him they monitored his phone conversations with a Virginia state senator.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[129,1500,1501,1503,36,1504,1502,1499],"class_list":["post-631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-congress","tag-doj","tag-fbi","tag-lawmakers","tag-politics","tag-surveillance","tag-virginia","tag-wiretapping"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}