Sen. Cynthia Lummis is demanding answers from the FBI on whether she faced further surveillance after revelations that ex–Special Counsel Jack Smith tracked her phone calls. Fox News Digital first reported Monday that Smith and his ‘Arctic Frost’ team investigating Jan. 6 allegedly monitored the phone calls of Lummis and fellow GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham, Marsha Blackburn, Ron Johnson, Josh Hawley, Bill Hagerty, Dan Sullivan, Tommy Tuberville, and Rep. Mike Kelly of Pennsylvania. Fox News Digital exclusively obtained an FBI document stating the names of the lawmakers and that an FBI special agent on Smith’s team ‘conducted preliminary toll analysis’ on the toll records associated with them.
An FBI official told Fox News Digital that Smith and his team were able to view which phone numbers the senators called, along with the location each call originated and where it was received. Lummis is now seeking more information on the matter, writing a letter to FBI Director Kash Patel, thanking him, President Donald Trump, and Attorney General Pam Bondi for their ‘transparency regarding the blatantly unconstitutional surveillance activities conducted on the U.S. 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 Department of Justice focused back on its core mission of delivering justice for all,’ she wrote in the letter to Patel. Lummis is now demanding all FBI and DOJ records that identify which members of the Biden administration ‘authorized or approved the surveillance of my phone records and communications.’
She is also requesting documentation of ‘any other surveillance conducted by the FBI or DOJ from January 20, 2021, through January 20, 2025, on me related to my official duties as a United States senator.’ ‘I believe that the surveillance of sitting United States Senators by the executive branch represents one of the most serious infringements on the separation of powers in American history,’ she wrote. ‘It seriously impinges on both my civil rights and my constitutional duties as a legislator, especially since this surveillance was directly connected 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 weaponized federal law enforcement against their elected representatives.’ ‘Those responsible will be held accountable,’ she wrote. ‘Thank you for your prompt attention to these requests, and for restoring integrity to the FBI.’
‘Arctic Frost’ was opened inside the bureau on April 13, 2022. Smith was appointed as special counsel to take over the probe in November 2022. An FBI official told Fox News Digital that ‘Arctic Frost’ is a ‘prohibited case,’ and that the review required officials to go ‘above and beyond in order to deliver on this promise of transparency.’ The discovery is part of a broader, ongoing review.
‘The American people deserve the truth, and under my leadership, they will have it,’ Patel told Fox News Digital. ‘We promised accountability for those who weaponized law enforcement, and we will deliver it.’ Patel also posted about it on X, saying, ‘Transparency is important, and accountability is critical. We promised both, and this is what promises kept looks like… We terminated employees, we abolished the weaponized CR-15 squad, and we initiated an ongoing investigation with more accountability measures ahead.’