{"id":17809,"date":"2025-10-31T01:51:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T02:51:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=17809"},"modified":"2025-10-31T02:56:48","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T02:56:48","slug":"outrageous-lawmakers-trash-biden-administration-for-targeting-surveilling-156-republicans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=17809","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Outrageous\u2019: Lawmakers Trash Biden Administration for Targeting, Surveilling 156 Republicans"},"content":{"rendered":"

This post originally appeared at https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/outrageous-lawmakers-bash-biden-admin-for-targeting-surveilling-156-republicans\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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(The Center Square) \u2013 The Biden administration\u2019s probe into President Donald Trump\u2019s 2020 election loss progressed far beyond investigating potential fraud and potentially targeted 156 conservatives and conservative organizations.<\/p>\n

Whistleblower-sourced records<\/a>, made public Wednesday by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, show that the Arctic Frost probe, pushed by Biden administration special counsel Jack Smith, conducted extensive and legally dubious investigations into Trump-supporting Republicans nationwide.<\/p>\n

Smith, the FBI, and the Department of Justice spent thousands of taxpayer dollars to collect personal cellular phone data, conduct dozens of interviews, and issue 197 subpoenas to 34 individuals and 163 businesses.<\/p>\n

\u201cArctic Frost was the vehicle by which FBI agents and DOJ prosecutors could improperly investigate the entire Republican political apparatus. Contrary to what Smith has said publicly, this was clearly a fishing expedition,\u201d Grassley told reporters Wednesday.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf this had happened to Democrats, they\u2019d be as rightly outraged as we are outraged,\u201d he added. \u201cWe\u2019re making these records public in the interest of transparency and so that the American people can draw their own conclusions.\u201d<\/p>\n

The records reveal some of the targets on page 60, including multiple state Republican party chairs or former chairs; many state lawmakers and attorneys; individuals believed at the time to be \u201cfake electors;\u201d and conservatives involved in election integrity efforts.<\/p>\n

Records of additional individuals and organizations targeted, beginning on page 101, list everyone from Trump campaign staffers to former senior White House advisor Stephen Miller and White House Deputy Chief of Staff Dan Scavino. The list spans multiple states and includes some significant redactions.<\/p>\n

The Arctic Frost team also collected phone records of at least nine Republican senators without notifying them, and attempted but failed to collect phone data on others.<\/p>\n

Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., called the records \u201cnothing short of a Biden administration enemies list\u201d and deemed it \u201cfar worse, orders of magnitude worse\u201d than the Watergate scandal of the Nixon administration.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople need to realize how politicized the Biden administration turned all these agencies,\u201d Johnson said. \u201cIt\u2019s outrageous, it should shock every American\u2026we need to get to the bottom of this\u2026so that this doesn\u2019t happen again in America.\u201d<\/p>\n

The revelations build on previous documents showing that the Biden administration targeted 92 conservative groups<\/a>, including the Republican National Committee; Republican Attorneys General Association; the America First Policy Institute; and Turning Point USA, the organization previously headed by political commentator Charlie Kirk, who was fatally shot<\/a> in September.<\/p>\n

In a Truth Social post Wednesday, Trump called the investigators a \u201cdisgrace to humanity.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThese thugs should all be investigated and put in prison,\u201d he said. \u201cDeranged Jack Smith is a criminal!!!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This post originally appeared at https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/outrageous-lawmakers-bash-biden-admin-for-targeting-surveilling-156-republicans\/ (The Center Square) \u2013 The Biden administration\u2019s probe into…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":871,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wi-right-now"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17809"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17811,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17809\/revisions\/17811"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}