Joe Holleman | Post-Dispatch

Political correspondent/columnist

Recent news that federal authorities were tracking the cellphones of several U.S. senators has punched all the wrong buttons for Josh Hawley.

"They traced my outgoing calls, my incoming calls, my location, the duration of the call," Hawley said in an interview with the Post-Dispatch.

Hawley said a special counsel should be appointed to investigate the situation.

"There needs to be total transparency," Hawley said.

Mistakenly referred to as "tapping" when the issue was disclosed last week at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, the FBI just compiled basic call information without tapping into the actual content of conversations.

Hawley and the other Republicans were part of a group planning to challenge the results of th

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