The Justice Department under the Biden-Harris administration obtained phone records belonging to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan over a two-year period, according to documents released in response to a request from Chairman Jordan for communications between Verizon Wireless and former Special Counsel Jack Smith.
A grand jury subpoena was issued on April 25, 2022, seeking "all call detail records" for Chairman Jordan dating back to January 1, 2020. The requested information included records of inbound and outbound calls, text messages, direct-connect communications, voicemail messages, addresses, sources of payments, IP addresses, and location data. The subpoena was accompanied by a nondisclosure order that stated informing Chairman Jordan about the subpoena could "result in flight from prosecution, destruction of or tampering with evidence, intimidation of potential witnesses, and serious jeopardy to the investigation."
The records request was part of the Arctic Frost investigation launched on April 13, 2022. This investigation served as the basis for Special Counsel Jack Smith's election case against former President Donald Trump. Under Smith’s direction, phone records from more than a dozen Republican members of Congress were also obtained without their knowledge.
Chairman Jordan’s phone records were requested by Timothy Duree, a Justice Department prosecutor who worked with Thomas Windom—one of Smith’s senior prosecutors who has recently been referred to the Department of Justice for criminal prosecution by the House Judiciary Committee.
According to the press release: "Several members of Smith's Special Counsel team failed to fully cooperate with the Committee's investigation into the Biden-Harris Justice Department's weaponization of the rule of law. The disturbing tactics employed by Smith's team during its partisan and politically motivated prosecutions of President Trump undermined the integrity of the criminal justice system. As Special Counsel, Smith was ultimately responsible for the prosecutorial misconduct and constitutional abuses committed by his office."
