Los Angeles: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and Australian magazine executive Dylan Howard are among more than 80 individuals and entities asked to submit documents to a new large-scale congressional probe into alleged "obstruction of justice, public corruption and other abuses of power" by US President Donald Trump.

House Judiciary Committee chairman Jerrold Nadler on Monday, local time, announced document requests were also served on former Australian Associated Press reporter Rob Goldstone and George Papadopoulos, the former Trump foreign policy adviser who had a drinks session with former Australian high commissioner to the UK Alexander Downer at a London bar in 2016.

Julian Assange has been asked to submit documents to the large-scale probe. Credit:AP

Other notable names on the document request list include Trump's children Donald Trump Jr, Eric Trump and Ivanka Trump; former administration officials Hope Hicks, Sean Spicer, Reince Priebus and Steve Bannon; former lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen; former campaign chairman Paul Manafort; and longtime associate Roger Stone.

"Over the last several years, President Trump has evaded accountability for his near-daily attacks on our basic legal, ethical, and constitutional rules and norms," Nadler said.