Jack Smith Team Knew Spying on Congress ‘Might Be Unconstitutional’ but ‘Forged Ahead’: House Report
Former special counsel Jack Smith and the Biden administration’s Department of Justice violated the DOJ’s policies with respect to separation of powers, according to a House report released Wednesday.
Smith, appointed in 2022 by Attorney General Merrick Garland to investigate Donald Trump, expanded his investigation into members of Congress who communicated with then-first-term President Trump over his disputes regarding the results of the 2020 election.
Investigators gained access to the phone records of more than a dozen Republican lawmakers.
“During the Biden-Harris DOJ’s investigation of the 2020 election, codenamed Arctic Frost, and the subsequent special counsel investigation, investigators unconstitutionally subpoenaed phone records for over a dozen Republican members of Congress and obtained gag orders to prevent the Members from knowing that the Biden-Harris Administration had obtained these records,” the report stated.
