ARCTIC FROST HEARING: Jack Smith’s spying on Kash Patel was more extensive than previously revealed

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The lengths the Biden administration was going to snoop into the private communications of everyone around then-former President Donald Trump and his allies, including Kash Patel, was much worse than previously revealed.

Now President Trump is back in the Oval Office, Patel is the director of the FBI, and Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee are pulling back the rug on the dirty deeds that occurred when the Biden administration was in power, under a probe called “Arctic Frost.”

From the Daily Caller: Former special counsel Jack Smith sought nearly two years’ worth of Federal Bureau of Investigation Director Kash Patel’s phone records, new documents show.

Smith’s team subpoenaed records of phone calls and text messages — which did not include their content — as well as Patel’s mailing, residential and email addresses, according to documents released by Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley ahead of a hearing Tuesday.

Two subpoenas requested data from October 1, 2020, to February 22, 2023, and January 1, 2021, to November 23, 2022. United States Magistrate Judge James Mazzone and U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia Judge Beryl Howell, an Obama appointee, signed nondisclosure orders keeping the subpoenas secret.

Other records released Tuesday include a January 2023 list of members of Congress whom Smith’s team hoped to subpoena. Now-Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin, former Republican Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz and Republican Arizona Rep. Paul Gosar were included on the list, along with members whose records were later subpoenaed, like Republican Texas Sen. Ted Cruz.

In a statement posted on X, Sen. Grassley wrote, “The public has a right to know how their tax dollars have been used & who was involved in the decision-making. I released new records today on ARCTIC FROST that raise more questions about Jack Smith’s conduct+candor. Smith even subpoenaed 2 YEARS of Kash Patel’s private phone records. ALARMING.”

The Senate Judiciary Republicans announced Tuesday morning, “Jack Smith subpoenaed @Verizon for roughly TWO YEARS’ worth of @FBIDirectorKash’s private records, including his text and call logs, residential address and credit card number.”

The new subpoenas were made public by Chairman Grassley, along with Sen. Ron Johnson and Sen. Ted Cruz.

Jack Smith’s team put together a wish list for Members of Congress they wanted to target. Smith’s team already knew these Members had communicated with President Trump’s inner circle. They subpoenaed the Members’ private records anyway.

Arctic Frost was highly coordinated and heavily resourced – and FBI was “very responsive” to the needs of Jack Smith’s team.

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex) unleashed his fury over the revelation of the depth of the spying that had occurred by the Biden administration, and noted that if the Trump DOJ had subpoenaed the records of Democrat officials, the Democrats would be losing their minds.

WATCH:

Below is another jaw-dropping exchange from Tuesday’s hearing:

WATCH the full hearing in the video below, which took place Tuesday morning:

Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) announced, “The documents released today are only a small fraction of evidence showing Jack Smith’s partisan investigative tactics. @ChuckGrassley and I will continue to fight for transparency so that the American people will know the full truth about Arctic Frost and the Biden Administration’s weaponization of the federal justice system against @realDonaldTrump and his allies.”

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