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(DC Pundit) – If you had any remaining doubt that the Biden-era Justice Department was running a politically motivated operation against President Trump and everyone in his orbit, newly released documents should put that doubt to rest permanently.
Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) has released documents revealing that former Special Counsel Jack Smith’s team quietly issued at least two subpoenas to Verizon, seeking phone records tied to now-FBI Director Kash Patel spanning from October 2020 through February 2023.
To make it even more troubling, each subpoena came packaged with a court-approved one-year gag order, legally preventing Verizon from telling Patel his records had been obtained. He had no idea. While these subpoenas typically capture metadata rather than actual communication content, they can construct an extraordinarily detailed map of a person’s contacts, movements, and associations.
Patel, who first disclosed the subpoenas earlier this year, pulled no punches in his reaction, calling the move “outrageous and deeply alarming.” Hard to argue with that assessment.
Grassley released the documents ahead of a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing examining “Arctic Frost” — the FBI investigation that eventually fed into Smith’s prosecution efforts against Trump related to the 2020 election. Whether the Patel subpoenas were connected to that probe or to the separate classified documents investigation — in which Patel was also considered a key witness — remains unclear.
Republican senators on the committee were not interested in diplomatic restraint. Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) went straight to the historical parallel that needs to be said: “If Watergate taught us anything, it is that even a single abuse of power can shake the foundations of our republic. What we are seeing now is far more expansive—a modern Watergate that swept up tens of thousands of private communications.”
Three things we learned today as we inch toward accountability in America:
1. Kash Patel had 2 years of his phone records and emails taken by Biden’s FBI. This included text messages.
2. Fourteen members of Congress were targeted in just one meeting with Jack Smith and the… pic.twitter.com/9BCGLNVOe6
— TheStormHasArrived (@TheStormRedux) March 25, 2026
Democrats, predictably, pushed back. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) argued that Patel had essentially made himself fair game, stating, “Patel made himself a fact witness.” Convenient logic from the party that spent years insisting the Russia investigation was completely above board.
The released documents also included internal briefing materials prepared for Attorney General Merrick Garland, showing Smith’s team believed the investigation was progressing smoothly and that coordination was occurring among top DOJ officials, FBI leadership, and federal judges in Washington.
Smith has consistently defended his conduct as lawful and nonpartisan. But when you’re secretly vacuuming up two-plus years of a political ally’s phone records while gagging the phone company from telling him — the word “nonpartisan” gets harder and harder to say with a straight face.
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