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WASHINGTON — Two leading Senate Judiciary Committee senators are asking the FBI and the Department of Justice to hand over any warrant applications related to possible wiretaps of President Donald Trump and his team, after Trump accused his predecessor of illegally tracking his conversations.

Sens. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., and Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., the top Republican and Democrat on the Judiciary Committee’s Crime and Terrorism panel, wrote Wednesday to FBI Director James Comey and Acting Deputy Attorney General Dana Boente asking for “copies of any warrant applications and court orders – redacted as necessary . . . related to wiretaps of President Trump, the Trump Campaign, or Trump Tower.”

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Boente was recently put in charge of such matters at the Justice Department, after Attorney General Jeff Sessions recused himself from matters pertaining to the Trump campaign.

“We would take any abuse of wiretapping authorities for political purposes very seriously,” Graham and Whitehouse wrote. “We would be equally alarmed to learn that a court found enough evidence of criminal activity or contact with a foreign power to legally authorize a wiretap of President Trump, the Trump Campaign, or Trump Tower.”