Former Biden prosecutor Jack Smith secretly spied on sitting Republican lawmakers as part of the sweeping investigation into the January 6th Capitol protest, according to a newly uncovered FBI document.
The spying was part of the FBI's Arctic Frost investigation, which was launched in 2022 as a Biden-era crackdown on President Trump and his MAGA movement was in full swing. The FBI memo is dated September 27, 2023, and mentions Senators Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.), Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.), Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.) and Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), as well as Rep. Mike Kelly (R-Pa.) as targets for government surveillance.
News of the disturbing surveillance was shared with Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Ia.), who has been probing the weaponization of government during the Biden regime.
One of the senators targeted, Sen. Graham, called the weaponization of government during the Biden years "worse than Watergate."
“Based on the evidence to-date, Arctic Frost and related weaponization by federal law enforcement under Biden was arguably worse than Watergate,” Grassley said in a statement.
“If heads don’t roll in this town, nothing changes,” Grassley told reporters.
The Arctic Frost investigation was opened in 2022 by an anti-Trump FBI agent, Timothy Thibault, before it was handed over to Smith later that year.
This document shows the Biden FBI spied on 8 of my Republican Senate colleagues during its Arctic Frost investigation into "election conspiracy" Arctic Frost later became Jack Smith's elector case against Trump
BIDEN FBI WEAPONIZATION = WORSE THAN WATERGATE pic.twitter.com/V2JyiVlX48
— Chuck Grassley (@ChuckGrassley) October 6, 2025
Smith obtained cell phone records from the nine Republican lawmakers from January 4 through January 7, 2021, a period that overlaps with the contentious certification of the 2020 election. The surveillance appears to be related to GOP lawmakers' involvement in challenging the 2020 presidential election, which Trump still maintains was fraudulent.
The cell phone records would have showed whom the Republican members called and when, as well as the location and duration of the calls, although the content of those calls would not have been included, Grassley noted.
The FBI memo is titled "CAST assistance," which refers to the bureau's cellular analysis team. The document is tagged, "ARCTIC FROST — Election Law Matters — SENSITIVE INVESTIGATIVE MATTER — CAST.”
The news of Smith's spying on Congress adds to the Biden-era government abuses that were carried out in the name of saving "our democracy" from Trump, who was hounded by Smith in two sprawling criminal investigations while Trump was campaigning for the White House.
The Arctic Frost probe focused on alternate slates of pro-Trump electors who were deemed "fake electors" by Smith and others. The so-called "fake electors plot" became the centerpiece of Smith's sweeping, failed case against Trump for "election interference."
Trump called Smith a "real sleazebag" after the prosecutor's role in spying on Congress was exposed.
“Deranged Jack Smith got caught with his hand in the cookie jar. A real sleazebag!!!” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
Smith's audacious surveillance of Congress adds to a long history of partisan overreach by the FBI, which infamously spied on Trump's 2016 campaign using Clinton-funded opposition research.
“We recently uncovered proof that phone records of U.S. lawmakers were seized for political purposes,” FBI director Kash Patel said in a statement. “That abuse of power ends now. Under my leadership, the FBI will deliver truth and accountability, and never again be weaponized against the American people.”
