Kash Patel vows end to FBI weaponization after Jack Smith spied on GOP senators

On Monday, Senator Chuck Grassley released a document showing that under the Arctic Frost investigation, which "formed the basis of Jack Smith’s elector case against President Donald Trump," the FBI spied on eight Republican senators’ personal cell phones as well as a GOP representative. Current FBi Director Kash Patel has vowed that the bureau, under his leadership, "will deliver truth and accountability, and never again be weaponized against the American people."

Patel said, "We recently uncovered proof that phone records of U.S. lawmakers were seized for political purposes," referring to the document that was given to Grassley in response to oversight requests. "That abuse of power ends now," Patel continued. "Under my leadership, the FBI will deliver truth and accountability, and never again be weaponized against the American people." Arctic Frist was opened in April 2022, and Smith took over the probe as special counsel in November of the same year.

The document, dated September 27, 2023, stated that an FBI special agent had conducted "toll analysis on limited tolls records" associated with Senators Lindsey Graham, Bill Hagerty, Josh Hawley, Dan Sullivan, Tommy Tuberville, Ron Johnson, Cynthia Lumis, and Marsha Blackburn, as well as Rep Mike Kelly.
 

.@FBIDirectorKash and @FBIDDBongino are trying to clean up the mess they inherited. They should be congratulated for finding this and exposing it.

What happened should unnerve everybody. https://t.co/uwovJQxz5b

— Lindsey Graham (@LindseyGrahamSC) October 6, 2025