“Dorothy May Strickland … No family to collect, no family to order a death certificate,” Delashmutt said. “We were instructed to hold on for 120 days to the cremated remains and then scatter at sea.”

But Delashmutt hesitated.

“Something inside of me just said, ‘There’s got to be family. There’s got to be someone out there that knows her,'” she said.

Any records on Dorothy Strickland’s murder were held in the sheriff’s cold case files. In charge of that office is longtime Detective Ed Glaser.

“So the sheriff calls me,” Glaser said. “I said, the only thing — I don’t think it’s ever been done, and I’ll do it today or start — is looking for her school records.”

A coincidence almost unbelievable: After 45 years, shortly after Glaser’s call to the school system, another caller asked the school system about the same name. Between the clerks and his own detective work, Glaser located the caller on the other side of the state in Lee County, Florida, and called him on the phone.

“I said, ‘This is Ed Glaser with the Indian River Florida Sheriff’s Office, and I’m doing a cold case,”‘ Glaser said. “‘Does the name ‘Dorothy Strickland’ or ‘Dorothy Clowers’ mean anything to you?’ And literally the phone went really quiet … ‘She was my baby sister.’ And I’m like, ‘What?’”

It just so happened that Dorothy’s brother, Marvin McDonald, called the school district looking for his own records under his mother’s name, Clowers, shortly after Detective Glaser’s call. His mind reeled as Glaser explained to him that Dorothy’s remains were in Vero Beach.

“I was in shock. I was, ‘What, really?’” said Rebecca Clowers, Dorothy’s sister.

Piecing together her last moments, Glaser says she had partied with cousins at a bar in nearby Fort Pierce, hitched a ride home with two men, then decided to go back out after midnight, never to return.

Then, seven months later, in February 1980, hunters stumbled on her skeleton, partly covered in foliage.

Now, after all this time, Dorothy’s remains are finally in the hands of her loved ones.

As for who murdered 17-year-old Dorothy Strickland, the investigation is still open and active, with Detective Glaser on the case.

“Full Measure with Sharyl Attkisson” airs at 10 a.m. Sunday, WJLA (Channel 7) and WBFF (Channel 45).

In the sun-scorched desert outside Phoenix, a manufacturing and technological revolution is unfolding. A giant foreign company is expanding its U.S. footprint with a staggering investment announced weeks into Trump’s second term.

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., or TSMC, is pouring $165 billion into a site in Arizona, building six state-of-the-art chip factories to power everything from iPhones to AI. It’s believed to be the largest foreign direct investment in U.S. history.

“I think it really changes the landscape,” said Greg Jackson, an executive at TSMC in Arizona. “I mean, if you look over the years, we’ve dropped to somewhere around 10% or less chips made in the United States. Now we’re bringing that back into the United States and bringing it back in the most advanced technology into the United States.”

President Trump has made a manufacturing surge a pillar of his second term, in part to reduce America’s risky dependence on China and other foreign powers.

“I think if you look back to the COVID time, there was a lot of risk that came in from the supply chain by having things spread out all over the world,” Jackson said. “The port shut down, the airport shut down, people were unavailable to come to work. Having semiconductors back in the U.S. on shore reduces that risk and allows us to really fend for ourselves and be in charge of our own destiny.”

America’s first big manufacturing boom began in the 1800s with the Industrial Revolution. After the Civil War, industries like steel and railroads exploded. By 1900, the U.S. produced 30% of manufactured goods on the planet. Ford’s assembly line and other advances led to a peak in the 1950s.

But in the 1970s and 1980s came a downturn, triggered by globalization and automation. By 2000, America had lost 5 million jobs, largely in steel, textiles and electronics. Another dip followed the 2008 recession, with 2 million more jobs gone.

Now, Trump’s strategy leans on incentives and steep tariffs — potentially 25% or more on imported chips. The policies are confusing to some and draw sharp criticism. But Trump and his allies say these policies are spurring many companies to build or expand on U.S. soil.

TSMC is the biggest, but dozens of manufacturing ventures have been announced in Trump’s second term as of this past June, with billions in promised spending, including pharmaceutical, computer, energy, AI and critical minerals companies.

A project by Canada-based Cyclic Materials centers on an empty, new warehouse in Mesa, Arizona. It will soon be buzzing with machinery.

“So today, the market, when it comes to rare earth, is overly dominated by China. It’s over 90% of the global supply,” said Marie Vaillaud, who’s with Cyclic Materials. “This supply is obviously at risk with ongoing tensions. So what Cyclic Materials does is, we recycle the end-of-life materials to recover these very rare earths and reintegrate it into the supply, which is a critical need for any industry in the U.S.”

Mesa Mayor Mark Freeman says the city is perfectly situated for a boom that drives economic growth.

“We have a great manufacturing community here already,” Freeman said. “The president continues to support bringing manufacturing back to United States. I know when I was younger, everything was built in the United States, and it’s gone offshore. But when we look at it overall, it’s just a great thing for the United States. So I welcome it.”

As factories rise and workers train, there are high hopes that a comeback is taking root. If Trump’s vision delivers, the results could write the next chapter in America’s manufacturing story.

“Full Measure with Sharyl Attkisson” airs at 10 a.m. Sunday, WJLA (Channel 7) and WBFF (Channel 45).

But what if the truth is far different? A former federal agent is flipping the script with a jaw-dropping twist: Many of the U.S. guns used in cartel crimes were bought by Mexico’s own government.

Deadly shootouts and clashes with police are a daily reality among Mexico’s killer cartels. As a result, Mexico’s gun homicide rate is two to three times worse than the U.S., with over 21,700 gun murders in 2022. It’s a flashpoint in the debate over firearms and crime and who’s to blame. Mexico and gun control advocates have long blamed smuggling and America’s loose gun laws.

That’s the story John Dodson says he was told throughout his 15 years as a special agent with the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. The narrative was, “We are to blame. Our civilian firearms market, our right to bear arms, is to blame for the violence in Mexico and along the southwest border,” Dodson said.

But that narrative, he says, has been upended by the surprising truth: “The vast majority of crime guns recovered in Mexico are purchased directly by the Mexican government,” he said.

Tracing data confirms it. Most of the U.S. firearms recovered from Mexican crime scenes weren’t trafficked or smuggled. The Mexican government legally purchased them.  Exact numbers are hard to come by, but a 2023 State Department report confirms the U.S. approved $147.7 million in small– arms sales to Mexico from companies like Sig Sauer and Glock. Still more weapons are supplied through U.S. Foreign Military Sales.

“When we first started telling the Mexicans, ‘You have to do something to stop the drug trafficking coming north of the border,’ the Mexican authorities needed resources and funds to do that,” Dodson said. “So we started funding these operations … providing them with hundreds of millions of dollars to purchase equipment — much of that firearms.”

He says he queried ATF’s gun-tracing network. And he saw that most of the U.S. guns turning up at cartel crime scenes were originally sold to the Mexican government. Dodson said he was “flabbergasted.”

We reviewed data from 2016 to 2023. It confirms the Mexican government was the top buyer of U.S. guns later traced to crime scenes in Mexico. One document shows the Mexican military, listed as “dealer,” purchased more than 2,000 from 2016 through 2021.

A 2023 document sources a year’s worth of U.S. guns from Mexican crime scenes, with 779 of them originally bought by the Mexican government. No other source is anywhere close.

The State Department, which oversees foreign weapons sales, declined our interview request and wouldn’t answer any of our questions. We also couldn’t get any information from the Justice Department or the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. The State Department has told Congress that its priority is national security.

“From what I know,” Dodson said, “the amount of those firearms that are ending up being diverted to the black market — I would cease and desist all transactions with the Mexican government when it comes to firearms.”

“Full Measure with Sharyl Attkisson” airs at 10 a.m. Sunday, WJLA (Channel 7) and WBFF (Channel 45).

It’s all due to a game-changing lawsuit homeowners filed against the National Association of Realtors, challenging how real estate agents get paid. As a result, Realtors now face new rules designed for consumer benefit. But the overhauled system and the fallout are still being sorted out.

Jerod Breit helped spark this real estate revolution. He joined a class action lawsuit challenging the longstanding structure of the entire U.S. real estate system.

“When I sold my home in St. Louis, which was a huge part of this case, I just remember saying, ‘Why am I paying someone who I’ve never met before 3%?’ No one from the buyer’s side ever did anything for me,” he said.

Historically, people selling their home typically paid about 3% of the sales price to their Realtor, and another 3% to the buyer’s agent.

“I was confused,” Breit said. “It was the first time I sold a home, and I really wondered, where’s the fairness in paying 3% and 3%?”

He continued, “People haven’t been happy about that. It’s one of those things where it’s painful, but you have to do it. That’s the way it is. That’s the way it’s always been done.”

The lawsuit claimed that sellers having to pay the buyer’s Realtor led to cozy deals between the supposedly competing agents, prioritizing their own shared profits over clients. The lawsuit also took on murky contracts and hidden fees.

The National Association of Realtors — and major companies that agents work under — were found guilty of antitrust violations and settled for half a billion dollars. After the Department of Justice weighed in, the Realtors’ group agreed to overhaul its rules, making agents’ pay more competitive. They must now usually disclose compensation upfront in writing, clearly stating it’s negotiable.

After the landmark lawsuit, Arizona has emerged as a test market for innovative commission models, such as hourly rates for agents or flat-fee services.

“The DOJ just felt that we needed to be, everything needed to be above board, which it always has been,” said Sindy Ready, who heads up the Arizona Association of Realtors. “And they’ve said that, you know, the commissions were set and not negotiable. And I’ve been doing this for 23 years, and they’ve always been negotiable.”

But Breit says that’s not true.

“It’s one of those things where it might have been kind of this sense of, ‘We are okay if we say, you know, ‘It was always negotiable.’ But I think 99% of homeowners out there, roughly, have never had the opportunity to negotiate that,” he said.

The National Association of Realtors declined our interview request. But according to one analysis, since the lawsuit settled late last year, average total Realtor commissions have dropped from 5.64% to 4.96%, saving consumers nearly $3,000 on a typical home.

Ready says it’s important to hire an agent that “really understands the market that they’re buying and selling in.”

“Because that’s where the benefit comes in of having a professional help you with the process and also help you with the confusion of what’s happening,” she said.

Before the lawsuit, U.S. real estate fees tended to run a total of 5% to 6% of the price of a house. That’s significantly higher than the 1% to 3% in other countries.

“Full Measure with Sharyl Attkisson” airs at 10 a.m. Sunday, WJLA (Channel 7) and WBFF (Channel 45).

“This whole side of my head was black, and my ear was like twice its normal size and hot because it was infected,” he said. “Obviously terrifying.”

Burnam had picked up a deadly superbug, Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae, or CRE for short. It’s 70% fatal once it enters the bloodstream. He concluded he’d caught it visiting hospitals as a medical device sales representative. Even after the emergency surgery, the bacteria continued to cause recurring wounds over the next five years, resulting in 21 operations.

Burnam’s health crisis ended up leading him to find a way to cure himself, with a discovery that stands to help millions. His experience also exposed remarkable flaws in America’s process for finding and approving effective medical treatments.

“The pills that they were giving me, you know, dozens upon dozens of antibiotic courses — IV antibiotics at one point — the surgeries, you know, the scraping, the cutting — nothing was working,” Burnam said. “I don’t blame the physicians. These were great physicians. They just didn’t have the tools to stop this.”

Burnam started looking outside the U.S. for solutions.

“I remembered that Europe always got things a few generations before us,” he said. “And I looked over there and I saw that there was something that they had that might help me. And when you’re that desperate, you know, you go off-script: ‘Maybe I can get this ingredient. Maybe I could do something with it. Maybe I could give it to my doctors.’

The key ingredient was Polyhexamethylene biguanide, or PHMB. It’s a safe antimicrobial agent widely used in the UK since 2010 to stop infection in wounds, but virtually unknown in America.

Burnam started work to see if he could turn it into an ointment that might work on his infection. He turned his garage into a makeshift lab, ordering ingredients and supplies online.

After about 100 tries, he cracked the code: He found a way to fuse the liquid form of PHMB into a stable ointment. Testing showed that it killed the strain of the superbug that was destroying his life.

“I gave it to the doctors … and I showed them the data,” he said. “So they put it in there, and the wound started to close. And these abscesses used to take months to close.”

Burnam said it started to look better in weeks. He believes his invention saved his life.

Next, he set out to share it. But he found navigating FDA requirements frustrating, to say the least. On his own, he figured out how to put together an application for FDA clearance.

“I ran all the tests, paid for it myself … and I got it cleared at the end of [2016].” And things just sort of went from there.

He started his own company on the basis of that one medicine.

“My product cured myself,” he said. “And I felt it was my duty … to get it to other people.”

Burnam’s company now has three FDA-cleared products based on his PermaFusion technology. They may be effective on diabetic ulcers, venous wounds and more, preventing amputations and healing chronic cases that used to linger for years or even prove fatal.

“Full Measure with Sharyl Attkisson” airs at 10 a.m. Sunday, WJLA (Channel 7) and WBFF (Channel 45).

It’s an issue that launched his unlikely campaign and propelled him to a first and then a second term in the White House. During the past decade, his message has remained clear on an issue that has reshaped the world order.

Trump addressed immigration in my first interview with him in 2015, when he was a largely ridiculed candidate for the nation’s highest office, given little to no chance of winning.

“I think it’s insanity to take 200,000 people — when you take 200,000 people, it’s very hard to do anything about it,” Trump said during our 2015 interview. “We don’t know who they are. I mean, this could be an ISIS army.”

When elected in 2016, Trump put his promise to action with a wall to stop the swarm across America’s southern border, stalled by court challenges until near the end of his term.

What many Americans didn’t know is that illegal immigration was an equally serious, if not worse, crisis in Europe, launching political tidal waves. In Britain, the overflow, culture clashes and terrorist attacks by those who got into the country illegally prompted Brexit — the UK’s exit from the European Union.

“They got quite scared, not because they’re intolerant of immigration — because this is an extremely tolerant country when it comes to immigration — but because it was pressing down on their wages,” British journalist Liam Halligan told me at the time. “We hadn’t made the right plans in terms of housing, the health service, schools.”

Brexit was just the beginning of a populist rise that would reshape European politics beyond Great Britain. We’ve reported from numerous countries where the immigration crisis became a driving issue for change, including Greece, Denmark, Germany and Poland.

By June of 2024, Germany was hosting 3.5 million refugees.

Poland’s president, Andrzej Duda, told me during an interview in 2024 that Russia has been trafficking multitudes of people to create instability in his nation.

“If someone comes over to Poland in the false perception that one will stay here and get everything for free and ‘We’ll have better life without working,’ well, we do not agree to such arrivals. No,” Duda told me. “If you want to live among us? Work. You want to live among us? Get yourself moving and do some work. Earn some money. This is as simple as that.”

Back in the U.S., Trump’s second term has already brought quick and dramatic results on America’s southern border.

“I think they’re doing an incredible job,” Trump told me during an interview in March of this year. “And it’s a tough job too. We have 99% improvement from Biden. So we have now the best border we’ve ever had, and we did that in a period of five weeks. Pretty amazing actually.”

In the first year of his second term, Trump is still delivering on a promise first made a decade ago, a message that’s only gained in global popularity — if not among all the leaders, certainly among citizens.

“And while we will always have a big heart for places and people that are struggling and truly compassionate answers will be given,” Trump said during his U.N. speech last week, “we have to solve the problem and we have to solve it in their countries, not create new problems in our countries.”

“Full Measure with Sharyl Attkisson” airs at 10 a.m. Sunday, WJLA (Channel 7) and WBFF (Channel 45).

A secretive multi-billion-dollar federal agency is at the heart of an American battle between government and landowners. It’s the Tennessee Valley Authority, led by a CEO who was making 26 times more than the president of the United States. I spoke with the landowners who are joined by a country music star-turned-activist who’s fighting with a mission.

On one side of the fight are hundreds of families like George Wade and his wife.

“If it can happen to us, it can happen to you,” Wade said.

On the other side, the Tennessee Valley Authority, or TVA, a mammoth-sized power company and federal agency.

Nanette Malher’s property was in the crosshairs.

“In 2019, they sent an historical surveyor out to find out who lived here, how many people lived in the houses, if they had any historical value,” Malher said. “He wouldn’t tell me where he was from.”

Eventually, Malher says, a stream of mysterious visitors fessed up to why they were there: to explore building a giant methane gas and lithium-ion battery plant nearby.

“I think they thought we were just Podunk country people out here. But we’ve got very intelligent people,” she said.

One of them, it turns out, is country music star John Rich.

“So, as I began to interview neighbors … I started just really showing up with a selfie stick and an iPhone,” he said. “I became an investigative journalist, kind of like what you do.”

“I said, ‘That is the most egregious, un-American, communistic tactic I’ve ever seen in my life,'” Rich said. “Okay. That’s it. Gloves off. I don’t know what we’re going to do, but fists up. Here we come. And that’s when the fight started.”

But what baffles Rich is why the agency seemed to be ignoring an alternative site it already owns — one that wouldn’t displace anybody. On a boat ride with local mayors, they verified that the site of an old coal plant, dismantled under President Barack Obama, could house the methane gas plant.

In July, Rich’s relentless advocacy on social media — and a text message to President Donald Trump — got the administration to intervene.

The TVA announced a sudden, huge change: “Based upon feedback received in response to TVA’s public scoping process and at Board listening sessions…With input from the TVA Board of Directors, the site off Lockertsville Road is no longer TVA’s preferred alternative.”

Rich says this site may be off the table for now, but his job isn’t done.

“The unfortunate thing is, Cheatham County is not unique in this situation,” Rich said. “TVA not only has been doing this since the 1930s; they’re doing it to other people too right now.”

“Full Measure with Sharyl Attkisson” airs at 10 a.m. Sunday, WJLA (Channel 7) and WBFF (Channel 45).

A key component of this transformation is the Food and Drug Administration, or FDA. I spoke with FDA Commissioner Dr. Marty Makary about how he’s navigating changes amid an entrenched and recalcitrant bureaucracy and a public that’s grown mistrustful of government health advice.

“The FDA has a history of being a broken agency that, at times, has been captured by the same industry it’s supposed to regulate,” Makary said. “And so that ended the day we came into office.”

Makary is foreshadowing radical change to America’s drug advertising landscape, promising to enforce laws that he says the old FDA ignored for decades.

The FDA’s issuance of enforcement letters for false advertising or claims by drug companies has fallen from 130 a year in the late 1990s to three in 2023, to zero last year, Makary said.

“I mean, it’s like no one’s paying attention,” he said. “But if you actually watch what’s happening, you watch these TV programs now, it’s like one nonstop-running drug ad, and they’re always singing and dancing. And so we have a law that says you cannot create a misleading impression.

“So we are going to enforce that regulation,” Makary continued. “We are in charge of making sure that claims by pharmaceutical companies match the data — that you’re not misleading Americans with these ads. And so we’re going to crack down. And so we have got thousands of letters that are going out. We have enforcement letters that are going out, after the entire world of enforcing these ads had dwindled.”

Makary is also working on getting more information about the effects of the COVID-19 vaccine in children.

“It’s amazing that here in 2025, we don’t have the full story on the COVID vaccine in children,” he said. “How many kids have died from the COVID vaccine? We are reaching out to the doctors. We are reviewing autopsy reports. We’re making our own conclusions from our own investigation to find out whether or not the association was causal and what the degree of certainty is.

“And so you’re going to see a report coming out in the coming weeks that is going to … make transparent the investigation that we conducted from families who have said, ‘We lost our child from the COVID vaccine.’ And when you’re trying to decide whether or not your healthy 12-year-old girl needs an eighth COVID shot this year — which, to be clear, I don’t recommend; I don’t think the data supports it — don’t you think it would be helpful to have the data on COVID vaccine deaths in that public academic discourse? I think so.”

“Full Measure with Sharyl Attkisson” airs at 10 a.m. Sunday, WJLA (Channel 7) and WBFF (Channel 45).

I headed to Europe to hear how U.S. energy companies are benefiting after the Russia-Ukraine war reset the energy dynamic on the continent.

On our visit to Poland’s capital of Warsaw, we learned the country is accelerating its push to become more energy independent.

Julia Cwiek is an expert in energy transition at Poland’s largest energy company, state-owned Orlen. The country does have some of its own energy supply, she said, but it’s only “a tiny bit of our needs.”

“Europe is not very wealthy in the… oil and gas fields,” she said.

Russia, on the other hand, is rich in energy. It is the world’s second-largest producer and exporter of natural gas, which is critical for heating and cooling and generating electricity.

Before Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, Austria and Latvia relied on Russia for more than 80% of their gas supply. Germany was Russia’s largest gas customer, followed by Italy. Other large importers of Russian gas in Europe included the Czech Republic, France, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia.

All told, in 2021, Russia supplied 45% of the European Union’s natural gas.

A lot changed after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Cwiek said.

“At first, Europe fought very much about the green transition only, because it was like a top priority to change the system, to be more eco-friendly for people, to be better for the environment,” she said. “But I’m afraid that we forgot a bit about the energy security as a very important issue in the whole energy system resilience. And when the invasion started, we saw these hydrocarbon supply routes being changed a lot. The supply stopped coming from Russia. They just stopped, and we had to find alternatives.”

The U.S. has since been playing a “huge role,” she said.

“The crisis didn’t hit that much [in] Poland in 2022, when the war started… We had long-term contracts for LNG with U.S. suppliers.”

LNG is liquified natural gas, delivered to Poland from the U.S. in a steady stream of ships.

“It accounted for around 40% of the supply of natural gas to Poland. So it was huge,” she said. “And those long-term contracts enabled us to avoid a very huge economic and security issue back then. So, we were very fortunate that we thought about it and we had this reliable partner.”

Still, the disruption in energy supply from Russia sent Europe into an economic crisis, with shortages and skyrocketing prices.

The cutoff of Russian energy was a “real economic shock, because prices of gas really were very high,” said Piotr Naimski, who has served in the Polish government in charge of energy issues.

He said as a result, the EU adjusted its energy priorities.

“After half a year or something like that, [it] created or provoked [a] series of decisions in Germany, in France, in other countries toward decisions toward diversification of these supplies…So this is good result. This is good for Western Europe for sure, for some central European countries as well. This aftershock, you know, after this invasion, Russian invasion [in] Ukraine, created proper results, I would say.”

The big winner in the equation is the United States. In 2023, the U.S. became the largest supplier of liquefied natural gas to Europe, providing nearly half of the total imports.

“We just, for a couple of years, focused more on the green transition and didn’t think that much about the energy security,” Cwiek said. “But then it changed. And now I think the energy security issues were elevated very high on the agenda of the politicians in the EU. And now it’s more levelized, I would say. So that’s a very positive thing.”

Another bonus for U.S. companies: As part of its move toward more energy independence, U.S. Westinghouse Nuclear will build Poland’s first nuclear power plant. Construction could start in 2028.

“Full Measure with Sharyl Attkisson” airs at 10 a.m. Sunday, WJLA (Channel 7) and WBFF (Channel 45).

When Sen. Chuck Grassley, a Republican from Iowa, and other members of Congress investigate insider claims about government wrongdoing, it’s staffers like attorney Jason Foster who are doing much of the hard work behind the scenes.

Some blowing the whistle to Congress are telling on the FBI and Department of Justice.

I asked him if whistleblowers reaching out to Grassley have ruffled a lot of feathers.

“Oh, absolutely. Always,” he said.

Foster left his job as Grassley’s chief investigative attorney in October 2018 and started his own watchdog group, Empower Oversight.

Then last year, he got a shocking notification. He and other Capitol Hill staffers, Democrats and Republicans, had been secretly spied on in 2017 by the very government agencies they were investigating.

“They were absolutely surveilling our communications,” he said.

Foster said he learned about it in an email he received from Google.

“It said, ‘This is to notify you that in 2017, we complied with compulsory process and provided your information from your Google voice telephone number and your Google email to the department. We complied with the subpoena.'”

The time period of the spying was after Donald Trump first took office. Grassley and Foster were among those officially investigating abuses by the DOJ and FBI related to their targeting of Trump in a false Russia collusion narrative.

“I think it’s a violation of the separation of powers, because the Senate and the House should have had an opportunity, before their staff’s attorneys’ information is collected, to raise any objections to that… And certainly whistleblower communications are absolutely going to be chilled. They’re going to be less likely to speak to Congress if they believe that the fact that they talk to Congress will be immediately unmasked and disclosed to the people back at the agency about whom they’re trying to disclose wrongdoing.”

The FBI and DOJ wouldn’t answer our specific questions, but the DOJ told us that it has tightened up its processes: “In 2021, following reports that the Department had sought information related to Members of Congress and congressional staff back in 2017, the Department took several significant steps to review and enhance its relevant policies and procedures.”

The FBI and DOJ also justified their spying by saying it was to find the congressional staffer who leaked classified information to the media. The leaked classified material they were so worried about implicated them — the agencies — in wrongdoing. It proved the FBI lied on a court application to get a wiretap on Trump campaign volunteer Carter Page.

Grassley is now looking into the government spying on Foster and other staffers. In a statement, Grassley called the surveillance “wholly unacceptable” and said it “offends fundamental separation of powers principles as well as Congress’s constitutional authority to conduct oversight…These revelations strongly suggest that the Justice Department weaponized its law-enforcement authority to spy on the entities seeking to hold it accountable.”

According to Foster, “The attorneys for your elected representatives in Congress who were supposed to hold DOJ and the FBI accountable for potential abuses were targeted by those organizations… None of the safeguards that are supposedly there were triggered. And so Congress didn’t have an opportunity to object. And this is one branch of government collecting communications data on the other branch of government that’s supposed to be doing oversight.”

Foster filed a lawsuit to unveil ongoing secrecy, like what exactly the DOJ said to convince a court to authorize the surveillance on Capitol Hill staffers. He lost the case but plans to appeal.

“Full Measure with Sharyl Attkisson” airs at 10 a.m. Sunday, WJLA (Channel 7) and WBFF (Channel 45).