{"id":1604312,"date":"2022-08-13T07:48:57","date_gmt":"2022-08-13T11:48:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1604312"},"modified":"2022-08-13T07:49:08","modified_gmt":"2022-08-13T11:49:08","slug":"congressman-perry-gets-phone-back-from-fbi-unclear-about-motives-behind-seizure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/congressman-perry-gets-phone-back-from-fbi-unclear-about-motives-behind-seizure\/","title":{"rendered":"Congressman Perry Gets Phone Back From FBI, Unclear About Motives Behind Seizure"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcongressman-perry-gets-phone-back-from-fbi-unclear-about-motives-behind-seizure%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1604312&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>House Freedom Caucus Chairman Scott Perry (R-Pa.) confirmed that he has received his cell phone back from the FBI after the agency had seized it a few days back.<\/p>\n<p>On Aug. 9, a day after raiding former President Donald Trump\u2019s Mar-a-Lago home in Florida, FBI agents had taken Perry\u2019s phone as part of a separate investigation. At the time, Perry was traveling with his family. Speaking to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/congressman-phone-seized-fbi-inquiry-gets-it-back\">Washington Examiner<\/a>\u00a0on Aug. 12, the GOP member confirmed that he has received his phone.<\/p>\n<p>He is still uninformed as to why the phone was confiscated by the FBI. However, Perry was informed by his attorneys that he was not a target of the FBI\u2019s investigation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve directed them to cooperate with the Justice Department in order to ensure that it gets the information to which it\u2019s entitled but to protect information to which it\u2019s not\u2014including communications that are protected under the speech and debate clause of the United States Constitution,\u201d Perry said.<\/p>\n<p>After the seizure, Perry had blasted FBI agents for making no attempt to contact his lawyer who would have made arrangements to submit the phone if needed by the agency.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/rep-scott-perry-says-fbi-seized-his-cell-phone-after-mar-a-lago-raid_4654179.html\">statement<\/a>, Perry said that though he was outraged, he was \u201cnot surprised\u201d that the FBI under the direction of Attorney General Merrick Garland\u2019s Department of Justice would seize the phone of a sitting member of Congress.<\/p>\n<p>Perry claimed that his phone contains information about political and legislative activities as well as private conversations with his family members, friends, and constituents, none of which is the \u201cgovernment\u2019s business.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDOJ chose this unnecessary and aggressive action instead of simply contacting my attorneys,\u201d the statement said. \u201cThese kinds of banana republic tactics should concern every citizen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> Unprecedented Move <\/p>\n<p>In an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/former-fbi-agent-says-mar-a-lago-raid-was-governments-attempt-to-embarrass-trump_4660484.html\">interview<\/a> with NTD, Greg Shaffer, a retired FBI agent for the elite<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Freedom Caucus Chairman Scott Perry (R-Pa.) confirmed that he has received his cell phone back from the FBI after the agency had seized it a few days back. On Aug. 9, a day after raiding former President Donald Trump\u2019s Mar-a-Lago home in Florida, FBI agents had taken Perry\u2019s phone as part of a separate [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":186,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1604312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1604312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/186"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1604312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1604312\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1604312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1604312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1604312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}