by R. Cort Kirkwood, The New American:
FBI Director Kash Patel has fired the agents involved in spying on nine Republican senators during Special Counsel Jack Smith’s Arctic Frost probe of the mostly peaceful protests at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021.
And snooping didn’t just involve the senators’ official business. FBI agents also tracked personal conversations and activities.
Patel acted today, following the revelation by the Senate Judiciary Committee and outrage from GOP committee chief Chuck Grassley of Iowa and other senators.
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They tracked the communications of GOP Senators. They weaponized law enforcement against the American people. That era is over.
We fired those who acted unethically, dismantled the corrupt CR-15 squad, and launched an investigation.
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— FBI Director Kash Patel (@FBIDirectorKash) October 7, 2025
Spy Operation
“The FBI targeted eight Republican senators’ personal cell phones for ‘tolling data’ as part of its Arctic Frost investigation,” the committee announced yesterday. “One Republican member of the House of Representatives was also impacted.”
The bureau “sought and obtained” three days worth of material — January 4 through January 7, 2021 — from the senators’ personal phones.
The document revealing the spy operation was found in a “prohibited access file.” Those types of files were in “a file system the FBI uses to limit access to certain documents by making some files inaccessible to most FBI agents,” the committee reported.
The victims of the rogue spy operation were, again, all Republicans:
- Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina;
- Senator Bill Hagerty of Tennessee;
- Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri;
- Senator Dan Sullivan of Alaska;
- Senator Tommy Tuberville of Alabama;
- Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin;
- Senator Cynthia Lummis of Wyoming;
- Senator Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee; and
- Representative Mike Kelly of Pennsylvania
The targets of the possibly illegal spy operation were none too happy about it.
“We were surveilled simply for being Republicans,” Johnson wrote on X:
This does not surprise me, but it should shock every American. What the Biden Administration has done is an outrageous abuse of power — it is blatant political persecution. Those responsible must be held fully accountable.
“This was the weaponization of one of our nation’s top intelligence agencies, and those responsible must be held to account,” Blackburn wrote.
“It shows you how out of control, and rotten to the core, and politicized the FBI had become,” she fumed at a news conference:
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