Records now show Jack Smith’s “Arctic Frost” probe pulled nearly two years of Kash Patel’s phone data and used secrecy orders to obtain communication records tied to Donald Trump’s allies and Republican lawmakers.
“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. Judges signed nondisclosure orders keeping the subpoenas secret.”
Those date ranges stretch from the 2020 election through January 6 and into the aftermath. The records did not include message content, but they captured who was in contact, when those contacts occurred, and how often.
A January 2023 DOJ briefing lays out plans to obtain toll records tied to members of Congress during that same window.
“In the coming week or so, we intend to issue subpoenas for the toll records of certain members of Congress for the period between the 2020 election and January 20 [2021] to investigate those communications.”
The briefing lists Louie Gohmert, Connie Hair, Mike Lee, and Kevin McCarthy, along with communications linked to Mark Meadows, Rudy Giuliani, John Eastman, Cleta Mitchell, and others involved in the post-election effort.
Internal emails show prosecutors discussing the volume of subpoenas before moving forward.
“It just occurred to me that before we tell Main [main justice] we are going to fire off subpoenas for so many members tolls I should make sure Jack’s aware.”
Records also show the subpoenas were already being executed. Former Rep. Scott Perry is among the first lawmakers whose records were obtained.
“We previously obtained toll records of Rep. Scott Perry.”
Gohmert is linked to communications involving Mark Meadows, Scott Perry, and Chip Roy. Mike Lee is linked to contacts with Rudy Giuliani, Meadows, John Eastman, and Cleta Mitchell, as well as calls meant for Sen. Tommy Tuberville on January 6. McCarthy is listed with calls involving Meadows, John Ratcliffe, Perry, and Chip Roy.
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Other records released Tuesday include a January 2023 list of members of Congress whom Smith’s team hoped to subpoena, including Lee Zeldin, Matt Gaetz, and Paul Gosar, along with members whose records were later subpoenaed, like Sen. Ted Cruz.
According to testimony cited by Grassley, Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile received at least 84 subpoenas tied to the Arctic Frost probe that later became Smith’s case. AT&T questioned whether a request for Sen. Ted Cruz’s records could implicate constitutional protections.
The DOJ briefing also states that investigators went through the January 6 committee report “page by page” and incorporated it into their investigative plan.
“We have a methodical process for logging all information contained in the report — new information, inconsistent information.”
By early 2023, investigators were using congressional materials while chasing metadata and toll records tied to the post-election period.
Judges approved nondisclosure orders that kept Patel’s subpoenas secret, preventing phone companies from telling the targets. For an extended period, those involved would not have known their records had been obtained.
In his opening statement in Tuesday’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the matter, Grassley observed, “If we’d followed the Democrats’ premature and ill-advised strategy, we wouldn’t have had a great deal of information we now have that shows Jack Smith misled Congress and the public, if not outright lied.”
The record shows how far this reached, who it touched, and how it was carried out while it was still hidden, and it is broader than what the public was told.
Editor’s Note: The endless lawfare against Donald Trump was emblematic of the banana republic Biden regime.
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