“So, to see this, I have to tell you, it is a huge deal, but I am not super surprised by this.”<\/p>\n

<\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>In 2023, Smith tracked the phones of Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Josh Hawley (R-MO), Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), Ron Johnson (R-WI), Bill Hagerty (R-TN), Dan Sullivan (R-AK), Cynthia Lummis (R-WY), Tommy Tuberville (R-AL), Eric Schmitt (R-MO), Ashley Moody (R-FL), and Rep. Mike Kelly (R-PA). At the time, Schmitt and Moody were a part of the Republican Attorneys General Association, which was also under surveillance by Smith.<\/p>\n<p>According to Hawley, Smith was also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/3839645\/jack-smith-tracked-calls-gop-senators-jan-6-probe-fbi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">able to track the locations of several senators<\/a> under an FBI operation known as Arctic Frost. Smith’s Jan. 6 case against Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/3241312\/social-media-jack-smith-dismiss-charges-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">was dismissed after Trump’s second election last year<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/opinion\/editorials\/3840668\/democratic-party-unprecedented-weaponization-of-doj\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY’S UNPRECEDENTED WEAPONIZATION OF DOJ<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>“People are appalled,” York said. “The only question there ever is in the first stages of this is how far did this go? Did they tap these senators? And the thing is that when you look, you often find more.”<\/p>\n<p>FBI Director Kash Patel announced Tuesday that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/3841156\/fbi-fires-agents-weaponized-law-enforcement-kash-patel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the agents involved in Operation Arctic Frost were fired<\/a> for “weaponizing law enforcement against the American people.” It is not known how many agents were a part of the operation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script> <\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Byron York not shocked by FBI spying on GOP senators<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2631,"featured_media":2496116,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Christopher-wray-fbii-w12.webp?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651,538],"tags":[37928,64819,45413,38191,32603],"class_list":["post-2496115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","category-washington-examiner","tag-byron-york","tag-fbi-surveillance","tag-gop-senators","tag-government-investigation","tag-political-news"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Christopher-wray-fbii-w12.webp?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2496115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2631"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2496115"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2496115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2496119,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2496115\/revisions\/2496119"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2496116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2496115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2496115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2496115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}