Blackburn Calls Out Jack Smith, Says Biden’s FBI Was Told To ‘Spy’ On Republicans

Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) said former special counsel Jack Smith should face potential prosecution after the FBI obtained the phone records of several Republican Congress members, saying it is out of the ordinary for the federal law enforcement agency to “spy on U.S. senators.”

Sen. Chuck Grassley, the top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, revealed on Monday that the FBI had pulled cell phone “tolling data” for eight GOP senators and one House member. The lawmakers were targeted as part of “Arctic Frost,” an FBI investigation into the 2020 election.

“There will be some indictments, and there will be some prosecutions, and holding people … accountable to the full extent of the law, that is going to be a priority,” said Blackburn in an interview with Morning Wire.

“We’re already doing a letter of complaint to the D.C. bar about Jack Smith because this was his shop. He should be disbarred at the very least, and should face the full extent of accountability under the law,” she added.

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Former FBI Washington Field Office Assistant Special Agent in Charge Timothy Thibault launched the Arctic Frost probe in April 2022. Thibault, with a history of online anti-Trump statements, resigned from the bureau in August 2022 under accusations of hiding evidence of Biden family malfeasance. The Arctic Frost investigation was turned over to Smith’s special counsel’s office in November 2022.

The steps that the FBI took are “absolutely” unusual and possibly unprecedented, according to Blackburn.

“For them to actually subpoena our phone records and for the wireless companies to give them that information, that is something that is highly unusual. It is illegal,” the senator said. “It is a violation of our civil rights. It’s a violation of our privacy rights. No one can find a time when … the FBI has done this.”

The records obtained by the FBI included the date and time of phone calls made by each lawmaker, the duration of the calls, the identity of the other party on the phone call, and tracking data indicating the location from which each call was made.

Other than Blackburn, the targeted lawmakers named in an FBI document released on Monday are Sens. Cynthia Lummis of Wyoming, Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, Tommy Tuberville of Alabama, Dan Sullivan of Alaska, Josh Hawley of Missouri, Bill Hagerty of Tennessee, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, and Rep. Mike Kelly of Pennsylvania.