A million times worse than Watergate.
Arctic Frost was the worst abuse of power by a presidential administration in the last 75 years.
It easily exceeded not only Watergate, but even the Obama era which had pioneered the practice of spying on opposing members of Congress under the guise of conducting counterintelligence operations, first against Israel and then Russia, climaxing in ‘Russiagate’.
The Biden administration discarded the ‘foreign’ pretext and began treating political opponents as ‘threats to democracy’ and the Jack Smith witch hunt not only targeted President Trump, but cast a net so wide that its Arctic Frost campaign deployed 197 subpoenas that hit 400 Republican targets including conservative organizations and even members of Congress.
After the first wave of revelations that 10 members of Congress, including 9 senators, had their call logs secretly seized with the complicity of partisan Democrat judges, Sen. Ted Cruz called for the impeachment of Judge James Boasberg. In his defense, Jack Smith, a Hillary Clinton ally acting as an ‘independent special counsel’ at the behest of the Biden administration, had his lawyers put out a statement claiming that, “the toll data collection was narrowly tailored and limited to the four days from January 4, 2021 to January 7, 2021” focusing on “the January 6 riots at the U.S. Capitol”.
We now know that’s not true.
Former Rep. Louie Gohmert, who was a sitting member of Congress at the time, had his cell phone records subpoenaed not just for “four days”, but for three months. As of now, this is the most extensive known spying on any of the members of Congress targeted in Arctic Frost.
The shocking revelation that a member of Congress had been spied on for three months, well beyond four days in January, makes it all too apparent that like Russia, J6 was a pretext for a wide-ranging campaign to spy on and prosecute as many Republicans and conservatives as possible.
Rep. Louie Gohmer, currently a senior fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, had emerged as the most outspoken congressional opponent of the abuses that occurred before and after the 2020 election, urging Republicans to look into election fraud and taking part in a lawsuit challenging the election results, and had likely been targeted as payback.
The representative from Texas had also been a passionate defender of some of the men and women arrested in the so-called ‘J6’ incident and Smith may have been hoping to silence him. --->READ MORE HERE
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Smith also sought personal phone records of now-former Rep. Louie Gohmert, FBI documents reveal
Former special counsel Jack Smith allegedly sought the private, personal cellphone records of then-Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy as part of his investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riots, Fox News Digital has learned.
Smith also sought the private phone records of now-former Republican Rep. Louie Gohmert of Texas.
Fox News Digital exclusively reviewed the document that FBI Director Kash Patel recently shared with Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley and Sen. Ron Johnson containing the explosive revelations. Grassley and Johnson have been leading a joint investigation into Smith’s "Arctic Frost" probe.
According to the document, Smith, on Jan. 24, 2023, allegedly sought the "toll records for the personal cell phones of U.S. Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy (AT&T) and U.S. Representative Louie Gohmert (Verizon.)"
The information was included as part of a "Significant Case Notification" drafted by the FBI’s Criminal Investigative Division on May 25, 2023.
"Jack Smith's radical and deranged investigation was never about finding the truth," former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy told Fox News Digital. "It was a blatant weaponizing of the Justice Department to attack political opponents of the Biden administration. Perhaps no action underscores this point more than the illegal attempt to access the phone records of sitting members of the House and Senate — including the Speaker of the House."
"His illegal targeting demands real accountability," McCarthy continued. "And I am confident Congress will hold hearings and access documents in its investigation into Jack Smith's own abuses."
"At the same time, I will ask my own counsel to pursue all areas of redress so this does not happen to anyone else," McCarthy said.
The revelations come after Fox News Digital exclusively reported in October that Smith and his "Arctic Frost" team investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol riots were tracking the private communications and phone calls of nearly a dozen Republican senators as part of the probe, including 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.
An official told Fox News Digital that those records were collected in 2023 by Smith and his team after subpoenaing major telephone providers. --->READ MORE HERE
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