EXCLUSIVE: Senator Lummis presses FBI over Jack Smith phone tracking

EXCLUSIVE: Sen. Cynthia Lummis, R-Wyo., is asking the FBI for information on whether she was subjected to additional surveillance, following revelations that former special counsel Jack Smith tracked her phone calls, calling the action “one of the most serious violations of the separation of powers in American history.”

Fox News Digital first reported Monday that Smith and his The “Arctic Frost” team investigating Jan. 6 allegedly monitored phone calls from Lummis and his fellow GOP senators. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee, Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, Josh Hawley of Missouri, Bill Hagerty of Tennessee, Dan Sullivan of Alaska, Tommy Tuberville of Alabama and GOP Rep. Mike Kelly of Pennsylvania.

Fox News Digital exclusively obtained an FBI document listing the lawmakers’ names and indicating that an FBI special agent on Smith’s team “conducted preliminary toll analysis” on toll records associated with them.

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Sen. Cynthia Lummis, R-Wyo., is asking the FBI for information on whether she was subject to increased surveillance, following revelations that former special counsel Jack Smith was tracking her phone calls. (Caroline Brehman/Pool/Sipa USA)

An FBI official told Fox News Digital that Smith and his team were able to see the phone numbers senators called, as well as where each call came from and where it was received.

Lummis is now seeking more information on the matter, writing a letter to FBI Director Kash Patel to thank him, President Donald Trump and Attorney General Pam Bondi for their “transparency regarding the blatantly unconstitutional surveillance activities conducted on the United States Senate and House of Representatives by the Biden administration during Operation Arctic Frost.”

“Your willingness to expose these abuses is crucial to getting the FBI and the Department of Justice focused again on their core mission of delivering justice for all,” she wrote in the letter to Patel, obtained by Fox News Digital.

Lummis now demands all FBI and DOJ records identifying which members of the Biden administration “authorized or approved the surveillance of my telephone records and communications.”

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Lummis requests names of all DOJ, FBI and White House officials involved; the entire data file collected about her, including all telephone recordings and any recordings or transcriptions of her private communications; any legal law cited to justify data collection; and all people with whom the information was shared.

She also requests documents on “any other surveillance conducted by the FBI or DOJ from January 20, 2021 through January 20, 2025 on me in connection with my official duties as a United States Senator.”

Special Counsel Jack Smith monitored the private conversations of several Republican senators during the Jan. 6 investigation. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

“I believe that the executive branch’s oversight of sitting U.S. senators represents one of the most serious violations of the separation of powers in American history,” she wrote. “This seriously infringes on both my civil rights and my constitutional duties as a legislator, especially since this surveillance was directly related to core legislative activities protected by the Speech or Debate Clause of the United States Constitution.”

Lummis added that “the American people deserve to know the truth about how the Biden administration used federal law enforcement as a weapon against their elected representatives.”

“Those responsible will be held to account,” she wrote. “Thank you for your prompt attention to these requests and for restoring the integrity of the FBI.”

“Arctic Frost” was opened in the office on April 13, 2022. Smith was appointed special counsel to take over the investigation in November 2022.

An FBI official told Fox News Digital that “Arctic Frost” was a “no-go case” and that the review required officials to “go above and beyond in order to deliver on that promise of transparency.” The discovery is part of a broader, ongoing review.

“The American people deserve the truth, and under my leadership, they will get it,” Patel told Fox News Digital. “We promised that those who militarize law enforcement will be held accountable, and we will deliver.”

Kash Patel is sworn in as FBI Director by United States Attorney General Pam Bondi in the Indian Treaty Room of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building (EEOB) on the White House campus in Washington, DC, February 21, 2025. (Reuters/Leah Millis)

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Patel added: “On our watch, the FBI will never again turn against the American people. »

“It’s a shame that I have to stand on Capitol Hill and reveal that the FBI was once a weapon for tracking the private communications of U.S. lawmakers for political purposes,” FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino, who briefed senators on the issue, told Fox News Digital. “Those days are over.”

Bongino added: “Under our leadership, the FBI will never again be used as a political weapon against the American people. »

Meanwhile, the FBI laid off employees and disbanded the CR-15 team. Patel announced that action had been taken in response to the revelation of “baseless surveillance” of US lawmakers.

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“We are cleaning up a sick temple three decades in the making – identifying the rot, weeding out those who have used law enforcement for political purposes and those who do not meet the standards of that mission, while restoring the integrity of the FBI. I promised reform and I intend to deliver,” Patel said in a statement to Fox News Digital.

Patel also posted about it on X, saying: “Transparency is important and accountability is essential. We promised both, and here’s what the kept promises look like… We’ve laid off employees, we’ve abolished the CR-15 Armed Squad, and we’ve launched an ongoing investigation with more accountability measures to come.