Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) revealed that Special Counsel Jack Smith tracked the communications of eight Republican senators during his Arctic Frost investigation, which centered around the Capitol Hill riot.
The FBI opened the Arctic Frost investigation in April 2022 by anti-Trump agent Timothy Thibault to investigate then-former President Donald Trump’s actions after the 2020 presidential election.
The DOJ assigned it to Smith in November 2022.
- Marsha Blackburn (TN)
- Lindsey Graham (SC)
- Bill Hagerty (TN)
- Josh Hawley (MO)
- Ron Johnson (WI)
- Mike Kelly (PA)
- Cynthia Lummis (WY)
- Tommy Tuberville (AL)
FBI Director Kash Patel discovered the memo recently. Fox News Digital received a copy of it.
The September 27, 2023, memo titled CAST [Cellular Analysis Survey Team] Assistance listed the phone numbers of those senators said stated that an FBI agent “conducted preliminary toll analysis on limited tolls records associated with” the listed senators.
This document shows the Biden FBI spied on 8 of my Republican Senate colleagues during its Arctic Frost investigation into "election conspiracy" Arctic Frost later became Jack Smith's elector case against Trump
BIDEN FBI WEAPONIZATION = WORSE THAN WATERGATE pic.twitter.com/V2JyiVlX48— Chuck Grassley (@ChuckGrassley) October 6, 2025
One official told Fox News that the FBI collected the telephone records after Smith’s team subpoenaed the telephone companies.
Another official said Smith’s team could “see which phone numbers they called, the location the phone call originated and the location where it was received.”
Johnson and Haggerty spoke about the document earlier:
JOHNSON: First of all, I want to thank Senator Grassley. It is because of his relentless advocacy for whistleblowers that a lot of this information is surfacing right now. We wouldn’t know about the list of a hundred Republican entities that were targeted by Jack Smith’s Arctic Frost investigation.
I don’t think we’d know about this as well. So we need whistleblowers. I think Dan Bongino and other folks in the FBI, they don’t know where all the records are hidden.
They still don’t. They’re not necessarily getting 100% cooperation, but this is outrageous what has happened. I just want to give you a timeline of this.
I think you’ve already got the FBI sheet that shows the number of members of Congress that were targeted. Representative Kelly, Senators Graham, Hagerty, Hawley, Sullivan, Tuberville, myself, Senator Lummis, and Blackburn. This memo was dated September of 2023.
To put it all into context, the Mar-a-Lago raid occurred in August of 2022. Jack Smith announced the indictments against President Trump in August of 2023. So this is almost two months later.
They’re casting this net, this fishing expedition against members of the Senate and the House. I’ve been investigating this with Senator Grassley. This doesn’t surprise me, but it should shock every American of what the Biden administration has done.
By the way, this is the first time I was targeted by the FBI. Under the Obama administration, the same thing happened to both Senator Grassley and I. As part of the foreign influence task force, we were giving a briefing to try and convince us that the Hunter Biden laptop was no big deal, basically trying to throw us off the track.
So this is major corruption that’s being revealed inside the Obama and Biden Department of Justice, the FBI. And I’ll turn it over to, I guess, Senator Hagerty, who’s, you know, one of the individuals, again, none of us were subject to targets of this investigation. There’s no predicate.
There’s no reason for this other than a fishing expedition, which again should outrage and shock every American. Senator Hagerty.
HAGERTY: Thank you, Senator Johnson and Chairman Grassley. Thank you for your leadership in making this happen. This is an extraordinary revelation that just took place this afternoon.
My colleagues and I found out, all of us Republicans, by the way, that we were placed under investigation by this FBI under the Joe Biden FBI that was led, I presume, by Jack Smith and his predecessors. This isn’t the first time that it’s happened, though. Senator Johnson just mentioned this.
I served on the Trump transition team in Trump Tower in 2016. Senator Blackburn was vice chair of the Transition Committee then, as were probably a dozen or more members of Congress. To think that we were all surveilled back then by the Obama FBI.
This corruption runs deep, and it’s gone on for far too long. And the fact that it’s happened here again, the fact that they are looking at our records in 2023, sitting members of the United States Senate. Again, the only thing that we have in common, the only thing in common in this entire list, is that we’re all Republicans.
They’ve decided to come after us. This is as partisan as it gets. The FBI and the corruption that’s running there has to be cleared out.
Thank God we have Kash Patel and Dan Bongino there. This has to be addressed. It has to be resolved.
It needs to happen today. Thank you.
JUST IN: The Biden FBI spied on 8 Republican Senators as part of its Arctic Frost investigation, according to Senator Chuck Grassley.
"This document shows the Biden FBI spied on 8 of my Republican Senate colleagues during its Arctic Frost investigation into 'election… pic.twitter.com/KhRrDn6WCb
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) October 6, 2025
Jack Smith tracked my private communications and those of my colleagues during his witch hunt to investigate @POTUS.
This is exactly the type of political weaponization of the federal government under Presidents Obama and Biden that Republicans and President Trump have been… pic.twitter.com/hzGtXnjngV
— Senator Bill Hagerty (@SenatorHagerty) October 6, 2025
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We are light years away from the governance described in the Civics classes we took as kids. And the odds are that we are not going to be able to return to it.
Subotai Bahadur
Given the Article. III. courts have been re-writing the Constitution since 1803, with major deliberate usurpation following the 14th Amendment, then beginning in the early 1900s, then the Warren and Burger courts (’53-86), and the succeeding supreme and inferior “benches” generally lacking the most fundamental allegiance to the limited Powers delegated in the Constitution, the odds are that we are not going to be able to return to any semblance of the Constitution as written.
There is no “judicial supremacy” when offering perspectives on Constitutional interpretations. The Executive and Legislature have equal standing to “interpret” the Constitution.
The courts have no “policymaking” authority; that is the sole realm of the Executive and Legislature.
“judges” do not have “life tenure”, they “hold their Offices during good Behaviour”; well known in the colonies and derived from English law.
What Congress can “ordain and establish”, can be dissolved and defunded (and the judges defrocked).
As well the supreme Court can and should because it is the supreme Court over all inferior Courts remove and all inferior judges who consistently do not exhibit “good Behaviour”.
“Politicization” (versus “independence”) and “incompetence” (all forms), and lying to self-enrich (again no “life tenure”) or anoint ones-self with new Powers (i.e., judicial constructs and many doctrines) all qualify as “bad Behaviour”; as does any usurpation of Powers of the Executive or Legislature.
To be clear, We the People are suffering the simultaneous culmination of many “Constitutional crises”.
The FBI has always been this kind of agency. I’m not in the least bit surprised.
But doing it in conjunction with the DOJ is a big step forward.
No more talking. People need to start being arrested and sent to prison.
Absolutely. Action must be swift, and if a determination of guilt is found, punishment must be severe.
Blondie doesn’t have the balls!
Arrested for what? If Smith can claim as an independent counsel he had broad authority to do this then what do you want him charged with. The problem is not only Smith is a POS but the independent counsel law allowed him to be.
As for “Blondie”, this criticism is verging on mysogyny. I’d rather she move slow and get people convicted than have a bunch of show trials where people get off on technicalities. That would be even worse
Thank you for your truthful comment.
But he can’t claim that. He was legally not qualified to hold the position he pretended to hold — therefore, he is not shielded by its privileges.
At that time no one had gone to court saying he wasn’t appointed correctly
The statute of limitations isn’t up yet.
Actually, she has a respect for the law. As much as we’d like to see a reprehensible person like Jack Smith in prison, we cannot simply arrest him. There is a legal process to follow, and she knows it.
Not people. JACK SMITH!
Why hasn’t Jack Smith been arrested for impersonating a US attorney? He was not eligible to hold that job because us attorneys are subject to Senate confirmation. Didn’t happen
Why? I’ll give you four reasons,…Trump, Blonde, Kash and Dan
I think he is still a US Attorney but I get your point. At the time he was acting no one had run through the courts to get a judgement saying he was appointed improperly. From what I’ve read I’m convinced he was.
This is why we needed a final ruling from the 11th circuit, not punting on moonless. Obviously, the issue isn’t moot.
I don’t think he was a legal principle officer, as he resigned his commission previously., but other can proffer a different opinion.
Dirty, unethical cop that deserves to be in the dock with his buddies Schiff, Comey, Brennan, and Clapper, among others.
The Judiciary Committee is a good source:
https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/press/rep/releases/biden-fbi-spied-on-eight-republican-senators-as-part-of-arctic-frost-investigation-grassley-oversight-reveals
Now the GOP is super duper mad!
Trump was unjustly prosecuted and nearly assassinated. DC mistreated and overcharged people J6 misdemeanors Yet those were not enough to get the GOPe worked up.
But now a few senators and congressman find out that were surveilled and wire tapped, yet remained undisturbed for dinner.
Pardon me if I am not overly impressed with their self importance.
I wonder how Miss Lindsey feels about all this?
He may have to cancel tea next Sunday.
Super duper mad, meaning extra strong letters of condemnation.
If they get away with this, our republic is a gonner. Heavy sigh.
they already have,…remember when it was found that the CIA was wiretapping members of Congress?
Shades of Watergate only done by the federal government instead of outsourced to a bunch of CIA associated contractors.
Well, considering the fact that Hawley raised his fist in solidarity with the January 6 rioters – before running away from them like the two-faced coward he is – I’d say putting him under surveillance was a perfectly reasonable thing to do to this insurrectionist POS.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/07/the-story-of-january-6th-in-two-josh-hawley-photos/
Is your brain so festering and rotted that you’d use Mother Jones as a source of “truth”? That would be like treating Candace Owens as the official biographer of Brigitte Macron or pretending it’s completely normal for state governors to aid and abet illegal aliens and tell the fed that laws don’t matter. You’re down the rabbit hole, swimming in a vat of pus and pretending it’s the purest of waters. Pimp your crazy somewhere else.
Got a question for you, Sanddog. If Legal Insurrection published something that was true, and a person on the left said, “It can’t be true if it was published on that rag”, would you think that person was intellectually dishonest? Living in a bubble? I would.
Likewise do I think you are intellectually dishonest and living in a bubble.
If the content of that Mother Jones article is incorrect – specifically the content I was pointing to – then tell me where, and how. Josh Hawley raised his fist in solidarity, and ran like a bitch when the cameras weren’t on him (he THOUGHT). That’s the content of the article.
Hate Mother Jones all you want. But until you respond with an actual critique of the issue I raised (Hawley is a two-faced coward), I remain unimpressed with your rant.
I have one for you, too. If you can’t find supporting documentation ANYWHERE else, such that you are reduced to citing such a source of putrid progressiveness to make your point, it isn’t worth making.
Here’s a clip of people laughing at the bitch when the video was played. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9kUmwRDjyI
You proved my earlier point.
Reselyup,
Define ‘run’. On second thought don’t bother, let’s accept your unstated premise that at every confrontation one must prevail or be ridiculed in defeat. Even where one is pulled away by others or with little option but to counter with overwhelming kinetic force.
So when the ‘resistance’ and ‘protesters’ interfering, impeding, blocking, seeking to restrict Federal LEO and in particular disrupt interior immigration enforcement are being decisively engaged and defeated no whining out you and your fellow travelers about tactics and methods used to secure victory.
CommoChief:
run
/rŭn/
intransitive verb
1. To move swiftly on foot so that both or all feet are not on the ground during each stride.
2. To retreat rapidly; flee.
When they heard the police siren, they ran.
3. (Informal) To depart; leave.
4. To flee quickly and surreptitiously in a girlish and cowardly manner like the little bitch Josh Hawley did on January 6th.
Got a question for you, asshole. In your earlier post, you indicated that putting Hawley under surveillance after he raised his fist (you say “in solidarity,” I say bullshit) is justifiable.
If that’s true, then what should be done with the Antifa pukes who are now crashing cars into ICE vehicles, shooting illegals in a van, and assassinating conservative activists?
Can we say that given the response to Hawley’s “fist raise,” that perhaps we can start shooting Antifa pukes who crash their cars into Fed vehicles, or engage in violent protest?
That cool with you?
Dude, you posted up an article from a non trustworthy magazine with a clear leftist agenda which they make no excuses for and when called out on it point right back to that same article as proof. I never read an account of Hawley doing that elsewhere so how about an unbiased source like CNN or Democracy Now?
Personally, I don’t like autobiographies much but if Owens did one on Macron I’d be sorely tempted to read it as Owens is a nutcase to put it mildly
There was no insurrection. Even the FBI says Jan 6 wasn’t an insurrection. Have you ever heard of an insurrection where the participants, all from a demographic known for being heavily armed, left their guns at home and brought flagpoles? They were invited into their public property by the police. If Congress was in danger of being overthrown by rednecks with flagpoles, it would have deserved it. The Founding Fathers were all insurrectionists too.
The same people who claim the unarmed “insurrection” threatened the government’s very existence regularly scoff at armed citizens who think they can successfully tangle (in an armed insurrection) with tanks and F-16s.
BTW, if the purpose of a body of people is the restoration of constitutional principles, the preservation of the Republic, and support for a government that respects the law, then that body is not involved in an insurrection and nothing it does is seditious. In this country, sedition and insurrection are not acts against an individual, those in power, or a particular political party. An insurrection or rebellion is an act against lawful government and in opposition to rule by the Constitution. The J6 riot was not such an act.
“scoff at armed citizens who think they can successfully tangle (in an armed insurrection) with tanks and F-16s.”
At Uvalde, ONE CHILD with an AR-15 held off FOUR HUNDRED police officers who were too skeered to open the door to the room he was in.
Mother Jones? Are you freakin’ kidding me?
So now, according to you and Mother Jones, raising one’s fist is “insurrectionist?”
Good to know that it’s now open season on you Antifa clowns, given your current fetish for violence.
Get the hell out of here.
Your own source contradicts you. It says he raised his fist in solidarity with peaceful protesters (or as it disingenously puts it “a crowd of soon-to-be rioters”), as well he should have. There’s nothing wrong with that.
The second picture shows him running through a corridor. Even if we assume he was running to distance himself from the rioters, and wasn’t simply in a hurry to get where he was going, so what? If there was a riot, why should he stick around? And how is his having encouraged peaceful protesters exercising their undisputed constitutional rights relevant?
Which judge(s) approved these warrants?
Not necessary to obtain toll records, which can be subpoenaed from the carriers by the prosecutor in the name of the grand jury. A wiretap of the content of those calls would require a warrant. No indication of wiretaps in this incident, so far.
If they want the content of the calls they go to the NSA and search the data base. Every cell phone call is recorded and stored. It’s why they built that huge data center in Utah. The center has the largest data storage and server farm in the US. Locals complained about the size and the water use for cooling. Banks of Cray computers too. We lost what was left of our privacy on 9-11-2001.
Nice to see proof but I think we all at least suspected the fascist did this all along.
Wake me up when someone gets arrested.
18 USC sec 241 (conspiracy to deprive a person of civil rights, under color of law) needs to be dusted off and applied to (at least) the heads of all the participating agencies, i.e. Comey, Brennan, and the intelligence service heads.
Two questions:
1. Did he have warrants to examine the records?
2. If so, on what actual data did a judge grant them?
the obama admin made the nixon admin look like a picnic when it came to civil rights violations
fjb just carried it forward and now b/c we trusted, or were too lazy, to make sure the votes were counted accurately in 2020 we have fallen and maybe cant get back to our feet
its possible,, but local level politics is proving to be rewarding the leftists
With respect to what is permitted in a non-wiretap, the situation is not quite what you might expect, but is much worse.
The key concepts you need to understand are “pen register”, “Markov chain analysis” and Google’s use of all of the UN translations and transcriptions. For the pen register, see the history and details of Smith v Maryland. Also see the current practices of cell phone metadata analysis, like in the movie
“2000 Mules”.
The Feds can, without a warrant and with the thinnest of pretexts, track your cell phone locations. Also the full metadata for pen register analysis is easy for the Feds to get. We all know that. The modern digital twist that is still de novo and un-litigated is application of phonetic Markov chain analysis to pull meaning out of a digital voice conversation without actually having anybody listen to it.
Using the 50 years of UN transcription and translation data, a very strong phonetics-to-text database was created. Nobody actually listens to your digital calls, but real-time analysis is done on the *meaning* of what is being said. When enough *meaning* is filtered up, a warrant application happens because of suspicious activity. No human is involved, so there is no “wiretapping”. Full review can be done later. See the Stored Communications Act.
Eventually this detail will be litigated. But it is not currently prohibited. A synthetic brain operated by the Feds can do, in essence, unlimited analysis of the time, scale and content of communication between any group of people with no limits and no notice. But not a real human brain.
NB: Yes, I have worked on marginally related software. Compilers, interpreters and image analysis mainly.
Please, some one of you go out and get this overturned.
On the very simple principle that the government cannot reach an unconstitutional goal through any means, this certainly seems to apply. It’s unconstitutional to monitor the content of a private electronic conversation without a warrant even if it may be constitutional to simply record the conversation. Having someone, or something, review the conversation and supply an overview or condensed, non-literal, transcription is still “listening” even if it doesn’t require “hearing,” as information concerning the content of the call is still transmitted to government employees. The government has created an electronic “snitch” that (to continue the analogy with a human) works entirely as an employee/LEO for government, and therefore must be viewed as such an employee/LEO.
I’m willing to go further and bet the wiretapping covered not only the seated legislators, but all of their aides as well. And if they invoked the ‘two-hop rule’ everybody *they* called or messaged as well. If Republicans had done this to any Dem legislators on such flimsy evidence, the riots would start immediately, and the news would run it 24/7 until everybody and their dogs had been fired, and the judge who signed the order disbarred and kicked out of the courtroom.
As it pertains to modern “wiretapping”, ignorance is bliss. The idea of the 2-hop rule comes from the mathematics of the Method of Steepest Descent, a 1920s innovation by the US Army logistics corps. There is more than a century of advance in the mathematics. Here is another key point: AFAIK, there no federal judge that understands the mathematics, and there may be zero attorneys that understand it, either. The legal field is largely ignorant of mathematics, and therefor somewhat delusionally optimistic. This largely explains why there are few, if any, meaningful rulings in this area.
For the cost of a few nice pickup trucks, one can put together a compute and search engine based on modern FPGAs that can search all known communications between any realistic group of people, and do so in seconds. Search can extract time-correlated meaningful conversation and meme propagation. In the past this was difficult and slow because of the factorial nature of communication, but modern compute hardware is so fast and cheap that the limits of human behavior have been overcome. There are no conspiracies that involved tens of thousands of people: brute force analysis in real time can now detect real-sized plans of action. The law, and the legal system, has not caught up to this reality.
I do not believe this was he work o The Cabbage’s admin Nope. This reeks strongly o the work o the Kinyun. Every detail is classic Oh Bummer. Same with the Mar al Lago raid.
Transparency is important and accountability is critical. We promised both, and this is what promises kept looks like. This FBI is delivering.
As a result of our latest disclosure about the baseless monitoring of members of Congress by the prior leadership team of the FBI, we have already taken the following actions:
We terminated employees, we abolished the weaponized CR-15 squad, and we initiated an ongoing investigation with more accountability measures ahead.
https://x.com/FBIDirectorKash/status/1975506285656207664
But it feels like patching each rathole as you find it, instead of tenting the house and having it exterminated.