Arctic Frost was the FBI investigation that tried to associate Donald Trump and many other Republicans with the January 6, 2021, Capitol protest. It was the basis for one of Special Counsel Jack Smith’s indictments of Trump. That indictment was dismissed. Senator Chuck Grassley has been on this case for a long time; whistleblowers approached him long ago to explain the corruption of the FBI and Joe Biden’s Department of Justice.
Arctic Frost can best be seen as a continuation of the Russia Collusion Hoax and the Crossfire Hurricane investigation, which sought to prevent Trump from being elected, and then to cripple his administration after he won the 2016 election. Also the Dirty 51 scandal, which sought, successfully, to swing the 2020 election to Joe Biden.
Arctic Frost included service of 197 subpoenas in which Special Counsel Jack Smith sought incriminating information about hundreds of Republicans, including ten Republican senators and one House member. There was no basis for suspecting any of these individuals of criminal actions, and in fact, no criminality was found. Smith subpoenaed telephone records of those Republicans from various telecom vendors, and rogue Democrat Judge James Boasberg entered a gag order, directing the phone companies not to disclose the subpoenas to their customers–United States Senators–for one year. There is precedent for such orders in organized crime investigations.
The phone companies responded in different ways to these corrupt subpoenas:
The documents, provided by the office of Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, reveal Verizon’s compliance and AT&T’s resistance when faced with Smith’s requests, which were part of Arctic Frost, the FBI probe that led to Smith bringing election charges against President Donald Trump.
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The phone companies also wrote letters to Grassley, first shared with Fox News Digital, explaining how they handled the subpoenas they received, revealing two different approaches.Verizon justified complying with the subpoenas, saying they were “facially valid” and contained only phone numbers, not names. Verizon said that with the “benefit of hindsight” and recent discussions with the Senate Sergeant at Arms, which handles congressional phone services, it has modified its policies so that it puts up more of a challenge to law enforcement requests pertaining to Congress members.
The era of mass civil rights violations is over, but still: better late than never.
AT&T, meanwhile, did not comply with the subpoenas.
“When AT&T raised questions with Special Counsel Smith’s office concerning the legal basis for seeking records of members of Congress, the Special Counsel did not pursue the subpoena further, and no records were produced,” David Chorzempa, general counsel for AT&T, wrote.
That is, I think, highly revealing. When AT&T questioned the basis for the Biden administration’s extraordinary actions–don’t kid yourself, Jack Smith represented the Biden administration–Smith backed off. That is clear evidence of the flimsiness of Smith’s fake “investigation.”
Taken together, these Democratic Party scandals, from the Russian Collusion Hoax to Crossfire Hurricane to the Dirty 51 to Arctic Frost–and likely others that have not yet come to light–represent by far the worst political corruption in American history. There has never been anything like it.
Democrats talk about Watergate. On a 100 point scale, Watergate was maybe a 6. These Democratic Party scandals, taken together, are perhaps an 87. The Democrats were actually trying to 1) alter the results of presidential elections, 2) disable an incumbent president, and 3) put their political opponents in prison. With the possible exception of the Democrats firing on Fort Sumter in 1861, there is nothing remotely like it in American history.
Finally, about telephone companies: my family has been on AT&T for quite a few years. From time to time we have thought about making a change, but haven’t been motivated to look into it seriously. But now, with AT&T standing up to the corruption of the Biden administration, we will be loyal customers for a long time to come. You might think about that, if you are currently choosing among telecom providers.
