US EditionJack Smith tracked calls of GOP senators during Jan. 6 investigation: FBI
- On October 6, 2025, FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino briefed lawmakers on Capitol Hill regarding Jack Smith’s reported tracking of nearly a dozen Republican senators’ private communications during the January 6 investigation.
- This tracking emerged from the FBI’s 'Arctic Frost' operation, begun in April 2022, which formed part of Smith’s inquiry into efforts by Donald Trump and his allies to challenge his 2020 election loss to Joe Biden.
- Recently discovered documents, dated September 27, 2023, and obtained after a request by Sen. Chuck Grassley, list specific GOP senators whose phone records were scrutinized as part of this probe.
- FBI officials stated that agents accessed information such as call dates, times, and locations but did not review call content, with former special counsel Smith’s investigation costing taxpayers over $50 million.
- Republican lawmakers described the surveillance as a serious act of corruption, while agency leaders assured the public that such actions targeting Americans would not happen under their oversight.
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Jan. 6 probe analyzed GOP lawmakers’ phone records, senators say
WASHINGTON — Federal investigators collected and analyzed call records from the personal cellphones of eight senators and one representative as part of an investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol building, the office of Senate Judiciary Chairman…
FBI: Jack Smith, Biden DOJ Tracked Phone Calls of GOP Senators, Congressman
Nearly ten Republican senators and a representative had their private communications allegedly tracked by former Special Counsel Jack Smith under the Biden administration, FBI Director Kash Patel revealed Monday. The post FBI: Jack Smith, Biden DOJ Tracked Phone Calls of GOP Senators, Congressman appeared first on Breitbart.
FBI analyzed some Republican lawmakers' phone records as part of Trump Jan. 6 probe, GOP senators say
The FBI in 2023 analyzed phone records of more than a half dozen Republican lawmakers as part of an investigation into efforts by President Trump to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, GOP senators say.
Jan. 6 probe analyzed GOP lawmakers' phone records, senators say
Federal investigators collected and analyzed call records from the personal cell phones of eight senators and one representative as part of an investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol building, the office of Senate Judiciary Chairman Charles E. Grassley said Monday. The FBI in 2023 sought the data about phone use from Jan. 4, 2021, to Jan. 7, 2021, and it shows when and to whom a call was made, as well as the duration and gener…
'Start with the top': What Fox missed in new report on Jack Smith tracking GOP lawmakers
On Monday, Fox News published a report claiming that former Department of Justice special counsel Jack Smith allegedly surveilled multiple Republican members of Congress as part of his investigation into then-former President Donald Trump. But one veteran journalist on Capitol Hill is arguing Smith had good reason to do so.According to Fox's reporting, Smith's team was monitoring the phone activity of Sens. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), Lindsey Gr…
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