Sen. Ted Cruz has been added to the list of Congress members whose phone records were subpoenaed as part of former special counsel Jack Smith’s probes into President Donald Trump and the Jan. 6, 2021, protests at the Capitol.
The records were ultimately not analyzed, as AT&T, his service provider, did not comply with Smith’s subpoena, reported Axios on Monday, after obtaining a copy of the demand.
Smith’s subpoena requested records associated with Cruz’s cellphone from Jan. 4-7, 2021.
“Arctic Frost was the Biden administration’s 21st-century digital Watergate,” the Texas Republican said in a statement about the subpoena.
“They weaponized the DOJ and FBI to try to access records on me, President Trump, and other political opponents of the Democrat Party,” he added.
“It was intentional, targeted political spying that likely went to the very highest levels of the administration — demonstrating utter contempt for the Constitution and separation of powers — and there should be the broadest possible investigations and accountability,” said the senator.
Other lawmakers whose phone records were subpoenaed were GOP Sens. Marsha Blackburn, Tennessee; Ron Johnson, Wisconsin; Bill Hagerty, Tennessee; Josh Hawley, Missouri; Cynthia Lummis, Wyoming; Lindsey Graham, South Carolina; Dan Sullivan, Alaska; and Tommy Tuberville, Alabama, as well as GOP Rep. Mike Kelly of Pennsylvania.
The Cruz subpoena demanded names, addresses and detailed records of “inbound and outbound calls, text messages, direct connect, and voicemail messages,” among other information.
The House Judiciary Committee last week called for Smith to testify before the panel about the subpoenas.
Meanwhile, Blackburn and other lawmakers last week, in a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi, called for the Department of Justice to refer Smith for investigation in connection with the tracking efforts.
The letter alleged that Smith engaged in “serious prosecutorial misconduct” through the politically motivated “Arctic Frost” investigation and called for disciplinary action, including disbarment.
Sens. Katie Britt, R-Ala., Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and several other Republican colleagues also on Monday sent letters to four telecommunications companies demanding that they provide Congress with all records that were turned over to Smith as part of his elector case against Trump through the Arctic Frost investigation.
The four telecommunications companies that received letters this week were Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile, and Lumen.
Johnson, Blackburn, Graham, Hagerty, Lummis, Sullivan, Kelly, and Tuberville co-signed the letters, as well as Cruz and Sens. John Cornyn, Texas; Mike Lee, Utah; Thom Tillis, North Carolina; John Kennedy, Louisiana; Eric Schmitt, Missouri; and Ashley Moody, Florida.
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