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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FBI analyzed lawmakers' phone records during Trump Jan. 6 probe, Republicans say
(The Hill) – The FBI analyzed the phone records of nine Republican members of Congress in 2023 during its investigation into President Trump’s alleged efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election, according to a unclassified document released Monday by Senate Judiciary Committee. The document, dated Sept. 27, 2023, says that an FBI special agent — whose name is redacted — conducted “preliminary toll analysis” on the phone records of Sens…
Leaked Memo Reveals Biden’s FBI Was Spying on Republican Senator
An FBI record obtained by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) reveals that the Biden administration’s FBI secretly spied on the private phone records of eight Republican senators. The post Leaked Memo Reveals Biden’s FBI Was Spying on Republican Senator appeared first on Slay News.
Biden FBI spied on eight GOP senators, damning new doc claims: 'Arguably worse than Watergate'
WASHINGTON — The FBI secretly obtained the phone records of nine Republican members of Congress, including eight sitting senators, under the Biden administration as part of its "Arctic Frost" investigation of 2020 election meddling, a bombshell document revealed. Specific reasons for the FBI's espionage of the sitting lawmakers are not clear. The document revealing the spy effort was recently turned over to lawmakers and Senate Judiciary Committ…
AG Pam Bondi Slams FBI's 'Arctic Frost' As Political Firestorm Ignites Over GOP Senator Surveillance
The U.S. Attorney General has delivered a forceful condemnation of the FBI’s controversial “Operation Arctic Frost,” calling the intelligence-gathering effort that led to the Jack Smith “elector” case an “unconstitutional, undemocratic abuse of power.” Attorney General Pam Bondi’s remarks came as a newly released FBI document ignited a political firestorm on Capitol Hill. The memo, […] AG Pam Bondi Slams FBI’s ‘Arctic Frost’ As Political Firesto…
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