FBI Files Show Jack Smith Issued Hundreds of Subpoenas to GOP Groups as Lawmakers Move to Impeach Ju

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FBI Files Show Jack Smith Issued Hundreds of Subpoenas to GOP Groups as Lawmakers Move to Impeach Judge Boasberg

Jasmyn Jordan 30 Oct 2025

Newly released FBI files made public by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) reveal that former Special Counsel Jack Smith issued nearly 200 subpoenas targeting Republican organizations, officials, and donors as part of a Justice Department investigation launched under the Biden administration. The disclosures have prompted congressional Republicans to call for the impeachment of U.S. District Court Chief Judge James Boasberg, who authorized related surveillance orders.

Grassley announced Wednesday that FBI files made public by his office stemmed from Smith’s “Arctic Frost” probe — the same operation that previously drew concern for secretly obtaining phone and financial records from Republican lawmakers and affiliated organizations. According to the FBI records, Smith’s team issued 197 subpoenas to 34 individuals and 163 entities, including banks and political groups, requesting information on more than 400 people and organizations connected to the Republican Party. Among those reportedly referenced were Turning Point USA and the Republican Attorneys General Association.

The documents build on a series of Breitbart News investigations describing how Smith’s appointment and prosecutorial actions were tied to broader “lawfare” efforts against President Donald Trump and his allies. Reporting from August and October detailed how FBI Director Kash Patel uncovered hidden “lockbox” files showing that Smith’s team had tracked communications of sitting lawmakers in 2023. Patel subsequently dismissed the agents involved and opened internal reviews into the matter.

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) has demanded that Smith testify before Congress about his handling of the Trump investigations and his use of subpoenas against elected officials. Jordan’s letter cited what he called “politically motivated” conduct, echoing earlier findings from the Office of Special Counsel, which launched an inquiry into possible Hatch Act violations. Smith’s London remarks earlier this month — in which he defended prosecutorial independence and denied partisanship — came just days before Wednesday’s release of the additional FBI records.

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Boasberg’s Senate Spying Gag Order Violated Federal Law
By: Breccan F. Thies
October 31, 2025

Boasberg is one of many low-court judges who have shown themselves to be lawless political actors whose jurisprudence is hostile to a functioning republic.

Judge James Boasberg, the lawfare fanatic serving as the chief judge of the U.S. District Court for D.C., issued an order intended to conceal the Biden administration’s seizure of Sen. Ted Cruz’s phone records. In doing so, it appears he likely violated federal law.

According to Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, as part of the Biden administration’s “Arctic Frost” inquiry dead set on targeting Republicans in battleground states, Special Counsel Jack Smith, who led the get-Trump lawfare for years, “secretly obtained phone record data from at least eight senators and one congressman.”

Smith subpoenaed Cruz’s records through AT&T.

The Biden Department of Justice tried to seize Cruz’s “cell phone communications,” according to the senator, and Boasberg signed off on a “nondisclosure” gag order to AT&T blocking the telecommunications company from notifying Cruz of the seizure for at least a year. According to Boaseberg’s order, obtained by Cruz, “The court finds reasonable grounds to believe that such disclosure will result in destruction of, or tampering with evidence, intimidation of potential witnesses, and serious jeopardy to the investigation.”

There is “precisely zero evidence to conclude that I am likely to destroy or tamper with evidence or to intimidate potential witnesses,” Cruz said. “Zero evidentiary basis for that. This order is an abuse of power. This order is a weaponized legal system.”

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https://thefederalist.com/2025/10/31/boasbergs-senate-spying-gag-order-violated-federal-law/

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The meat of the accusation:

“If this phone was an official phone (I suspect it was), then this was likely in violation of 2 U.S.C. 6628. If Smith or Boasberg violated that statute, it’s a very serious problem that probably justifies a bar investigation and could predicate an impeachment inquiry,” Mike Fragoso, fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, noted.

The law reads as follows:

Notwithstanding any other provision of law or rule of civil or criminal procedure, the Office of the SAA [Senate Sergeant at Arms], any officer, employee, or agent of the Office of the SAA, and any provider for a Senate office that is providing services to or used by a Senate office shall not be barred, through operation of any court order or any statutory provision, from notifying the Senate office of any legal process seeking disclosure of Senate data of the Senate office that is transmitted, processed, or stored (whether temporarily or otherwise) through the use of an electronic system established, maintained, or operated, or the use of electronic services provided, in whole or in part by the Office of the SAA, the officer, employee, or agent of the Office of the SAA, or the provider for a Senate office.

That law bans gag orders on the collection of Senate data and communications, and requires notice to the Senate to give it the opportunity to stop any subpoenas on separation of powers grounds. The statute also requires that courts stop those subpoenas if the Senate opposes them.

As The Federalist CEO Sean Davis pointed out, “Boasberg issued the illegal gag order precisely to prevent the Senate from going to court to vindicate its rights.” In other words, the Senate would never have been able to stop the surveillance because it never knew about it — and that was the point because “he knew the Senate would have IMMEDIATELY gone to court to nuke the Biden administration’s illegal spying against at least eight U.S. senators.”