Senator Marsha Blackburn just dropped a bombshell that changes everything about Jack Smith’s surveillance operation.
The timeline doesn’t add up — and it proves the fix was in from the start.
And Marsha Blackburn exposed two words that prove Jack Smith’s surveillance was worse than anyone thought.
The Biden administration’s weaponization of federal law enforcement reached new lows when it targeted sitting members of Congress with surveillance.
But one Republican Senator is fighting back in court.
Senator Marsha Blackburn announced she’s suing Justice Department and FBI officials who seized her phone records during former Special Counsel Jack Smith’s witch hunt investigation.¹
"The infringement is deep and wide," Blackburn told Just the News.²
The Tennessee Republican said the 2023 grand jury subpoena violated multiple constitutional protections including her 1st and 4th Amendment rights to free speech and privacy, her separation of powers protections as a lawmaker, and potentially the Stored Communications Act.³
Her carrier Verizon retained and turned over detailed information about her geographic locations whenever she made or received calls.
Jack Smith’s Arctic Frost team targeted Republicans who supported Trump
Blackburn singled out Smith, whose investigations led to two federal felony indictments against President Donald Trump that were later dismissed, as well as a specialized FBI team that analyzed phone records from eight U.S. senators and one House member.⁴
The surveillance operation was part of Smith’s "Arctic Frost" investigation into the January 6 Capitol events.
FBI documents show Smith’s team obtained "toll data" revealing every call the senators made or received, call duration, the individuals contacted, and the physical location where each call originated.⁵
All eight senators targeted were Republicans who supported Trump and questioned the 2020 election results.
The senators whose records were seized include Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, Josh Hawley of Missouri, Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, Bill Hagerty of Tennessee, Dan Sullivan of Alaska, Cynthia Lummis of Wyoming, Tommy Tuberville of Alabama, and Representative Mike Kelly of Pennsylvania.⁶
"We all supported President Trump, and we had valid questions about the outcome of the 2020 election," Blackburn explained.⁷
The two words that blow up Jack Smith’s entire operation: "May 2023"
Blackburn’s lawyers uncovered a timeline that exposes the whole rotten scheme.
"One of the things that is so interesting on this is we thought that the wireless carriers received a subpoena in September [2023] for our records, but we found out that Verizon actually received that subpoena in May 2023," Blackburn revealed.⁸
May 2023. Let that sink in.
Trump wasn’t indicted until August 2023.
Smith was already hunting Trump’s Senate allies three months before he even brought charges against the President himself.
This wasn’t an investigation following evidence. This was a political hit job looking for anything they could use.
They picked their targets — eight Republican senators who backed Trump — then went fishing through their phone records hoping to find something incriminating.
That’s not law enforcement. That’s a police state.
The surveillance sweep captured comprehensive data about the senators’ communications patterns and movements during the January 4-7, 2021 timeframe around the Capitol events.
Big Tech handed over senators’ location data without blinking
Here’s what should terrify every American about this story.
Verizon got a subpoena demanding phone records of sitting United States senators.
And they just handed it over. No questions asked.
"Of course, with Verizon, my wireless carrier, they received a subpoena, and they turned the records over. They never questioned it. They never quashed or moved to quash the subpoena," Blackburn said.⁹
Think about that. Your phone company is tracking everywhere you go, every call you make, everyone you talk to.
And when a weaponized Justice Department comes knocking, these corporate giants roll over and hand it all over.
"How could they not think that they were turning over the records of sitting members of Congress?" Blackburn asked.¹⁰
If they’ll do it to senators, they’ll do it to you.
The Stored Communications Act exists to protect Americans from exactly this kind of abuse.
Cellular carriers have no business retaining detailed location data showing where you were standing when you made a phone call.
But Verizon kept it all. And handed it straight to Jack Smith’s hit squad.
Look, Smith and his team were desperate to nail Trump on conspiracy charges.
When they couldn’t find the evidence, they went after his allies in Congress hoping to manufacture a case.
"It just shows you how Jack Smith and Arctic Frost, they were so out over their skis, and they were out to get President Donald Trump," Blackburn stated.¹¹
They wanted obstruction charges. Co-conspirator charges. Anything they could use to take down Trump and the senators who stood with him.
The crime? Supporting Trump and asking questions about the 2020 election.
That’s it. That’s what got eight Republican senators put under surveillance by their own government.
The good news? Kash Patel is cleaning house.
FBI Director Patel already fired the agents who worked on Smith’s surveillance operation and shut down the entire specialized unit involved.¹²
But that’s not enough.
Blackburn is taking these people to court — and she’s going after everyone involved.
"I can assure you this, we will be suing the Biden DOJ, Jack Smith and his CR-15 team," Blackburn declared.¹³
This lawsuit isn’t just about eight senators whose rights were violated.
This is about whether we’re still a constitutional republic or whether we’ve become a banana republic where the party in power uses federal law enforcement to spy on political opposition.
Every one of those eight senators had one thing in common: they supported Trump and questioned the 2020 election.
The Constitution’s Speech and Debate Clause exists precisely to prevent this kind of political targeting of lawmakers.
The Founders knew what tyranny looked like. They built protections against it.
And Jack Smith violated every single one of those protections because he hated Trump and everyone who stood with him.
If the Biden Justice Department can secretly surveil sitting senators for their political views, then nobody is safe.
Not you. Not your family. Nobody who dares to challenge the ruling class.
That’s why Blackburn’s lawsuit matters. She’s fighting for every American who still believes the government should fear the people, not the other way around.
¹ John Solomon, "GOP senator says she plans to sue Biden DOJ officials, FBI for invasion of phone privacy," Just the News, October 22, 2025.
² Ibid.
³ Ibid.
⁴ Ibid.
⁵ "Jack Smith tracked private communications, calls of nearly a dozen GOP senators during J6 probe, FBI says," Fox News, October 6, 2025.
⁶ "Biden FBI Spied on Eight Republican Senators as Part of Arctic Frost Investigation," Senate Judiciary Committee, October 6, 2025.
⁷ John Solomon, "GOP senator says she plans to sue Biden DOJ officials, FBI for invasion of phone privacy," Just the News, October 22, 2025.
⁸ Ibid.
⁹ Ibid.
¹⁰ Ibid.
¹¹ Ibid.
¹² "FBI fires special agents who worked on Jack Smith’s probe into Trump," NBC News, October 8, 2025.
¹³ John Solomon, "GOP senator says she plans to sue Biden DOJ officials, FBI for invasion of phone privacy," Just the News, October 22, 2025.
