EXCLUSIVE: Sen. Lummis presses FBI over Jack Smith phone tracking
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SPECIAL: Sen. Cynthia Lummis, R-Wyo., is demanding information about whether the FBI was subjected to additional surveillance after it was revealed that former Special Prosecutor Jack Smith was monitoring phone calls, calling the action “one of the most serious violations of the separation of powers in American history.”
Fox News Digital first reported Monday that Smith and his The “Arctic Frost” team investigating on January 6, Lummis and GOP Senators Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee, Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, Josh Hawley of Missouri, Bill Hagerty of Tennessee, Dan Sullivan of Alaska, Tommy Tuberville of Alabama and GOP Rep. Mike Kelly allegedly monitored phone calls. Pennsylvania.
Fox News Digital has exclusively obtained the names of the lawmakers and an FBI document stating that an FBI special agent on Smith’s team “conducted preliminary toll analysis” on toll records associated with them.
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Sen. Cynthia Lummis, R-Wyo., is demanding information from the FBI about whether she was being further surveilled after it was revealed that former Special Counsel Jack Smith was monitoring her phone calls. (Caroline Brehman/Havuz/Sipa USA)
An FBI official told Fox News Digital that Smith and his team were able to see which phone numbers senators were calling, where each call was coming from, and where it was coming from.
Lummis is now seeking more information on the matter and has written a letter to FBI Director Kash Patel thanking him, President Donald Trump and Attorney General Pam Bondi for their “transparency regarding the clearly unconstitutional surveillance activities conducted by the Biden Administration over the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives during Operation Arctic Frost.”
“Your willingness to expose these abuses is critical to ensuring that the FBI and the Department of Justice refocus on their core mission of ensuring justice for all,” he wrote in the letter to Patel, obtained by Fox News Digital.
Lummis is now requesting all FBI and DOJ records identifying which members of the Biden administration “authorized or approved surveillance of my phone records and communications.”
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Lummis requests the names of all Justice Department officials, FBI officials, and all White House officials involved; the entire file of data collected about him, including all telephone records and records or transcripts of his private communications; any legislation cited to justify data collection; and those with whom the information is shared.
It also requests documentation of “any other surveillance conducted on me by the FBI or DOJ from January 20, 2021, through January 20, 2025, related to my official duties as a United States senator.”
Special Counsel Jack Smith monitored the private conversations of several Republican senators during the Jan. 6 investigation. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
“I believe that executive branch surveillance of United States Senators represents one of the most serious violations of the separation of powers in American history,” he wrote. “This seriously impacts both my civil rights and my constitutional duties as a legislator, especially because this surveillance is directly connected to essential legislative activities protected by the Speech or Debate Clause of the United States Constitution.”
Lummis added that “the American people deserve to know the truth about how the Biden administration is weaponizing federal law enforcement against their elected representatives.”
“Those responsible will be held accountable,” he wrote. “Thank you for your prompt attention to these requests and restoring the integrity of the FBI.”
“Arctic Frost” opened inside the office on April 13, 2022. Smith was appointed as special counsel to take over the investigation in November 2022.
An FBI official told Fox News Digital that “Arctic Frost” is a “prohibited case” and that the investigation requires authorities to “go even further to deliver on this promise of transparency.” The discovery is part of a larger, ongoing investigation.
“The American people deserve the truth, and under my leadership they will have it,” Patel told Fox News Digital. “We promised to hold accountable those who weaponize law enforcement, and we will deliver.”
Kash Patel was sworn in as FBI director by U.S. Attorney Pam Bondi in the India Treaty Room in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building (EEOB) on the White House campus in Washington, DC, on February 21, 2025. (REUTERS/Leah Millis)
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Patel added: “Under our watch, the FBI will never again turn against the American people.”
FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino, who briefed senators on the issue, told Fox News Digital: “It’s a shame that I have to stand on Capitol Hill and explain that the FBI was once weaponized to monitor the private communications of U.S. lawmakers for political purposes.” “That era is over.”
Bongino added: “Under our leadership, the FBI will never again be used as a political weapon against the American people.”
Meanwhile, the FBI terminated employees and disbanded the CR-15 team. Patel announced that the actions were taken in response to the revelation of “baseless surveillance” of US lawmakers.
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“We are cleansing a sick temple three decades in the making; identifying those who are rotten, eliminating those who weaponize law enforcement for political purposes and those who do not meet the standards of that mission while restoring the integrity of the FBI. I have pledged reform and I intend to deliver,” Patel said in a statement to Fox News Digital.
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