According to a press release, the House Judiciary Committee reports that the Biden-Harris Justice Department secretly obtained Chairman Jim Jordan’s phone records from January 1, 2020 onward using a grand jury subpoena issued to Verizon on April 25, 2022, without his knowledge. The subpoena, tied to the “Arctic Frost” investigation that underpinned Special Counsel Jack Smith’s election case against former President Trump, sought extensive data including call logs, texts, voicemail, payment sources, IP addresses, and location information, and was paired with a nondisclosure order to prevent alerting Jordan. The release states that under Smith’s leadership, the DOJ also collected phone records of more than a dozen Republican members of Congress, with Jordan’s records requested by prosecutor Timothy Duree, who worked with senior prosecutor Thomas Windom, now referred to DOJ for criminal prosecution by the Committee. It further alleges that members of Smith’s team failed to fully cooperate with the Committee’s oversight efforts and accuses the Special Counsel’s office of weaponizing the justice system through partisan prosecutions, prosecutorial misconduct, and constitutional abuses.
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– In response to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan’s request for documents and communications between Verizon Wireless and former Special Counsel Jack Smith, newly obtained documents reveal that the Biden-Harris Administration Justice Department obtained Chairman Jordan’s phone records over a two-year period.
The Biden-Harris Justice Department obtained a grand jury subpoena issued on April 25, 2022—without Chairman Jordan’s knowledge—for “all call detail records” beginning on January 1, 2020, including but not limited to records for inbound and outbound calls, text messages, direct-connect communications, voicemail messages, addresses, as well as sources of payments, IP addresses, and location information.
The subpoena was accompanied by a nondisclosure order asserting that notifying Chairman Jordan of the existence of 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 Arctic Frost investigation, which launched on April 13, 2022, formed the basis of Smith’s election case against President Donald Trump. Under Smith’s leadership, the Biden-Harris Justice Department secretly obtained the phone records of over a dozen sitting Republican Members of Congress.
Chairman Jordan’s phone records were requested by Timothy Duree, a Justice Department prosecutor who worked with Thomas Windom, one of Smith’s top prosecutors who was recently referred to the DOJ for criminal prosecution by the Committee.
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.
November 20, 2025
WASHINGTON, D.C.
Sources: Judiciary.house.gov , Midtown Tribune news