BREAKING: FBI reveals Jack Smith tracked private communications, calls of multiple GOP senators

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From Fox News: Former Special Counsel Jack Smith was reportedly tracking the private communications and phone calls of nearly a dozen Republican Senators as part of his investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riots, Fox News Digital has learned.

A document, reviewed by Fox News Digital, revealed that Smith and his “Arctic Frost” team investigating Jan. 6 were reportedly tracking the phone calls of GOP Sens. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee, Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, Josh Hawley of Missouri, Cynthia Lummis of Wyoming, Bill Hagerty of Tennessee, Dan Sullivan of Alaska, Tommy Tuberville of Alabama and GOP Rep. Mike Kelly of Pennsylvania.

The document, recently discovered by FBI Director Kash Patel and exclusively obtained by Fox News Digital, is titled “CAST Assistance” and dated Sept. 27, 2023. “CAST” refers to the FBI’s cellular analysis survey team.

The document, which has the names of FBI agents involved redacted, marks the case ID as “ARCTIC FROST—Election Law Matters—SENSITIVE INVESTIGATIVE MATTER—CAST.”

Smith and his team tracking the Republican senators were able to obtain the phone records in 2023 by subpoenaing major telephone providers, the report explains.

According to one FBI official, Smith and his team were able to see which phone numbers they called, the location the phone call originated and the location where it was received.

FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino is notifying the senators impacted by Smith’s surveillance, and he is furious.

Bongino told Fox News, “It is a disgrace that I have to stand on Capitol Hill and reveal this — that the FBI was once weaponized to track the private communications of U.S. lawmakers for political purposes. That era is over.”

“Under our leadership, the FBI will never again be used as a political weapon against the American people,” Bongino vowed.

Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) posted a copy of a document and wrote, “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.”

Republican senators voiced their outrage in a press briefing Monday afternoon:

FBI Director Kash Patel said in a statement on X, “We recently uncovered proof that phone records of U.S. lawmakers were seized for political purposes. That abuse of power ends now. Under my leadership, the FBI will deliver truth and accountability, and never again be weaponized against the American people.”

Sen. Marsha Blackburn declared, “This is an abomination. I was just briefed by @FBIDDBongino about this appalling weaponization of the FBI under Jack Smith. I will not let it stand.”

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