Dems Silent After New Revelations About Jack Smith’s Spying Ops

The people who cheered on Jack Smith’s corrupt investigations into Donald Trump and his allies are suddenly silent after a bombshell report detailing the Biden FBI’s politically-charged spying ops.

Reuters this week reported the Democrat-led FBI subpoenaed records of phone calls made by current FBI Director Kash Patel and Susie Wiles, Trump’s campaign manager who now serves as his White House chief of Staff, in 2022 and 2023 when they were private citizens. Two anonymous FBI officials told the publication that the agency “recorded a phone call between Wiles and her attorney” in 2023. 

Patel told Reuters that the clandestine, taxpayer-funded operation “extended into Wiles’ time as Trump’s co-campaign manager.” 

Special Counsel Jack’s Smith’s “indiscriminate” election case against Trump, as Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley has described it, was drenched in partisan politics and constitutional transgressions, not the least of which is that Smith acted without without lawful authority. U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon ruled in July 2024 that Smith’s appointment was unlawful. 

Smith, appointed in 2022 by Democrat hatchet man, Attorney General Merrick Garland, was charged with investigating Trump on allegations that the president schemed to “overturn” the results of the rigged 2020 election in which Democrat Joe Biden claimed victory. The antecedent of that probe was “Arctic Frost,” the Biden FBI’s vendetta investigation targeting Republicans in Trump’s orbit, The Federalist’s Margot Cleveland has reported.

Patel called the latest revelations of the agency’s wider spying operations “outrageous and deeply alarming.” He told Reuters in a statement that previous FBI leadership used “flimsy pretexts” and buried the process in “prohibited case files designed to evade all oversight.” 

The Silence of the Shams

The same Democrats who have accused Trump of weaponizing the Department of Justice have vehemently defended Smith and the Biden DOJ even as more and more troubling evidence of the previous administration’s unlawful conduct comes to light. 

In a letter earlier this month to Grassley, Judiciary Committee ranking member Dick Durban, D-Ill., and his fellow Democrat members defended Smith and Arctic Frost once again, demanding that Smith be allowed to testify in committee hearings into the politically-tainted probes. 

“Rather than dedicating eight hearings to investigating the investigators, the Committee should be using this time to fulfill its responsibility to conduct oversight of the current Administration’s rampant abuses of power, threats to our elections, self-serving corruption, and increasingly despotic violations of civil liberties,” the Democrats wrote, failing to note the myriad red flags that spurred the investigation into the investigators.  

Not a one of the six Democrat Judiciary Committee members returned The Federalist’s emails seeking comment on the Reuters report. The Federalist asked whether the senators — Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota, Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut, Christopher Coons of Delaware, Mazie Hirono of Hawaii, and truth-evading Adam Schiff of California — condone the spying activities or whether they would support such tactics employed against Democratic Party campaign officials.  

But earlier this month, Durbin called the Judiciary Committee’s look into the special counsel’s conduct “an embarrassing use of the Committee’s limited time.” The Illinois Democrat cynically urged his colleagues to turn their attention “to the threats that President Trump poses to our democracy.” 

Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., who was one of eight Republican senators the FBI spied on, told The Federalist Thursday, “The evidence continues to mount showing how wide Jack Smith and the Biden administration cast their partisan dragnet looking for phantom crimes to cripple their political opponents.”

‘Worse than Watergate’

In early October, Grassley released the bombshell FBI document that revealed the FBI targeted eight Republican senators’ personal cell phones for “tolling data” as part of its Arctic Frost investigation. Rep. Mike Kelly, R-Penn., also was tracked according to the document made public by the Iowa Republican. Like the latest FBI records, the surveillance documents were kept in a “Prohibited Access” file, a designation that makes some files inaccessible to most FBI agents.

“Based on the evidence to-date, Arctic Frost and related weaponization by federal law enforcement under Biden was arguably worse than Watergate,” Grassley wrote at the time. 

In late October, the chairman made public nearly 200 subpoenas  that Smith and crew issued as part the witch hunt that ultimately led to two bogus indictments against Trump. The subpoenas, obtained through whistleblowers, were sent to 34 people and 163 businesses and sought requested testimony, communications and records related to at least 430 named Republican individuals and entities.

Artic Frost has proved to be an avalanche of prosecutorial awfulness. On Thursday, Grassley said things have only gotten worse. 

“Last yr I ws the first 2 sound the alarm on the existence of ‘Prohibited Access’ files at FBI,” the senator wrote on X. “SURE ENOUGH we’ve learned the Biden FBI was scooping records on Kash Patel+Susie Wiles & hiding the evidence as ‘prohibited’ docs TERRIBLE.”

‘Put Jack Smith Behind Bars’

Mark Davis, President of Data Productions, Inc., and a member of the Georgia Republican Party’s Election Confidence Task Force, was one of the many victims caught up in Smith’s unlawful dragnet.

“Today I learned that the U.S. Government apparently did the same thing to me that it did to Kash Patel, Susie Wiles, various Trump Attorneys, and God only knows who else!” Davis wrote on his X account. 

He said he had received a FedEx-delivered letter on Thursday from AT&T informing him that it had received a subpoena from the U.S Senate Homeland Security Committee Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, and that they intend to comply with it. The subpoena sought the same personal phone records between November 2020 and January 2021 that Smith “ALREADY SECRETLY OBTAINED from AT&T FIVE YEARS AGO.” Davis said he wouldn’t have known about the secret documents grab had it not been for Trump’s return to the White House and the Senate’s investigation into Smith and Arctic Frost.

“I am not going to fight the subpoena. I see no point in it. My privacy has already been violated, and if the committee wants another copy to prove that – they can have it!” Smith wrote, adding “I hope they put Jack Smith behind bars for this!”

Matt Kittle is a senior elections correspondent for The Federalist. An award-winning investigative reporter and 30-year veteran of print, broadcast, and online journalism, Kittle previously served as the executive director of Empower Wisconsin.