Fox News obtained internal Department of Justice emails that reveal special prosecutor Jack Smith targeted a number of phone records beyond those previously reported.
According to email exchanges between prosecutors beginning January 9, 2023, Smith’s team sought the records for Rep. Brian Babin (R-TX), Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ), and then-Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY), who now leads the Environmental Protection Agency.
“I’d like to seek [the Public Integrity Section’s] concurrence to get phone tolls for several MOCs who had contact with pertinent parties in our investigation,” wrote Timothy Duree, a former DOJ lawyer. “I’ll keep the timeframe tight—probably October 1, 2020, to January 31, 2021.” Other names on a list produced by Duree included former Reps. Mo Brooks, Matt Gaetz, Paul Gosar, Louie Gohmert, and Jody Hice.
“And please there’s no hurry this morning, [Duree],” prosecutor Raymond Hulser wrote. “It just occurred to me that before we tell Main we are going to fire off subpoenas for so many members tolls I should make sure Jack’s aware.”
Smith’s team also subpoenaed the phone records of former Kansas Attorney General Phill Kline after he challenged the 2020 election results. The subpoena was part of the Arctic Frost investigation and sought the “subscriber information, names, addresses, records for inbound and outbound calls, text messages, and voicemails, as well as the ‘[m]eans and source of payment,’” to Verizon.
Other reports indicate that the “Arctic Frost” team were monitoring the phone records and locations of nearly a dozen Republican lawmakers, including Sens. Lindsey Graham, Josh Hawley, Marsha Blackburn, and Ron Johnson.
