Docs: Jack Smith Ignored Constitutional Standards To Target GOP Senators In Arctic Frost Probe
Special Counsel Jack Smith and his team effectively ignored existing constitutional standards to target more than half a dozen GOP senators as part of their Arctic Frost lawfare against Donald Trump, new records show.
Released on Tuesday by Republican Sens. Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, the new documents disclose communications between Smith’s team and Biden Justice Department (DOJ) officials about their plans to file subpoenas against more than eight GOP senators. As The Federalist previously reported, the subpoenas sought to acquire these senators’ cell phone “tolling data” from Jan. 4-7, 2021, as part of the investigation (Arctic Frost) that ultimately became Smith’s elector lawfare against Trump.
The unearthed records show May 2023 communications from Smith’s team about getting approval from the DOJ’s Public Integrity Section (PIN) to issue the subpoenas. As described by the agency, PIN “oversees the investigation and prosecution of all federal crimes affecting government integrity, including bribery of public officials, election crimes, and other related offenses.”
On May 17, 2023, the Special Counsel’s Office’s Molly Gaston emailed PIN Principal Deputy Chief John Keller about Smith and Co.’s plans to issue what she described as “narrowly-tailored subpoenas” to obtain the tolling data from the mentioned Republican senators and Rep. Mike Kelly, R-Penn.
In seeking PIN’s consultation on the matter, Gaston claimed the special counsel’s bid to obtain the phone data was based on their alleged findings indicating that Trump and Rudy Giuliani “reached out to these Members to ask or pressure them to delay the certification of the electoral college vote — including, in some cases, on the night of January 6, in the hour before Congress resumed the Joint Session after the attack on the Capitol.” (Read more from “Docs: Jack Smith Ignored Constitutional Standards To Target GOP Senators In Arctic Frost Probe” HERE)
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