“No amount of intimidation or harassment will ever stop us from doing our jobs and honouring our Constitution,” said a joint statement from representatives Jason Crow (D-Colorado), Chris Deluzio (D-Pennsylvania), Maggie Goodlander (D-New Hampshire) and Chrissy Houlahan (D-Pennsylvania).
Kelly and Senator Elissa Slotkin (D-Michigan) also were contacted by Capitol Police for FBI interviews, their offices confirmed.
The FBI declined to comment.
Fox News first reported the request.
Some retired military lawyers and officers have criticised the video, in which the lawmakers - five of whom are veterans of the military and, in Slotkin’s case, the CIA - reminded service members that they can disobey unlawful orders.
Their message appeared directed at personnel involved in the Trump Administration’s deadly military campaign against alleged drug smugglers around Latin America, which many members of Congress and legal experts call a blatant violation of the laws of armed conflict.
Experts on military law also have argued that the lawmakers did not appear to say anything illegal and that launching a Pentagon probe into sitting members of Congress breaches democratic norms.
“The President directing the FBI to target us is exactly why we made this video in the first place,” Slotkin wrote in a social media post today.
“He believes in weaponising the federal Government against his perceived enemies and does not believe laws apply to him or his Cabinet.”
- Jeremy Roebuck, Perry Stein and Theodoric Meyer contributed to this report.
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