Biden FBI spied on Republican senators as part of Arctic Frost investigation
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – An explosive FBI document obtained by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) reveals the FBI targeted eight Republican senators’ personal cell phones for “tolling data” as part of its Arctic Frost investigation.
One Republican member of the House of Representatives was also impacted.
The Arctic Frost investigation formed the basis of Jack Smith’s elector case against President Donald Trump.
The FBI in 2023 sought and obtained data about the senators’ phone use from January 4 through January 7, 2021.
That data shows when and to whom a call is made, as well as the duration and general location data of the call. The data does not include the content of the call.
This document – https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/press/rep/releases/grassley-investigat… – was found in a Prohibited Access file in response to Grassley’s oversight requests.
Grassley’s oversight exposed the existence of Prohibited Access files, a file system the FBI uses to limit access to certain documents by making some files inaccessible to most FBI agents.
Read the FBI document at https://www.grassley.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/arctic_frost_toll_analysi…
The FBI targeted the following members of Congress:
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.)
Sen. Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.)
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.)
Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska)
Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.)
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.)
Sen. Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.)
Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.)
Rep. Mike Kelly (R-Pa.).
Grassley issued the following statement regarding today’s disclosure: “Based on the evidence to-date, Arctic Frost and related weaponization by federal law enforcement under Biden was arguably worse than Watergate. What I’ve uncovered today is disturbing and outrageous political conduct by the Biden FBI.
"The FBI’s actions were an unconstitutional breach, and Attorney General Bondi and Director Patel need to hold accountable those involved in this serious wrongdoing. I started the Arctic Frost investigation in July 2022 after hearing from whistleblowers. It’s taken years to get records and advance my investigation, but what the public is seeing now demonstrates the importance of congressional oversight and whistleblowers. My whistleblowers deserve great thanks for what they’ve helped expose. None of this would have been known without them.”
Background:
The FBI’s Arctic Frost investigation was opened in April 2022 by former anti-Trump agent Timothy Thibault. In November 2022, it was assigned to Special Counsel Jack Smith.
Whistleblower disclosures to Grassley earlier this year revealed the FBI acquired the government cell phones of President Donald Trump and former Vice President Mike Pence during its Arctic Frost investigation. Officials in the Biden White House personally assisted the FBI in securing Trump and Pence’s government phones. FBI agents used taxpayer dollars to travel the country and conduct dozens of interviews in support of the political probe.
Records Grassley made public last month showed the FBI also placed 92 Republican-linked individuals and Republican groups – such as Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA – under Arctic Frost’s investigative scope.