FBI Director Kash Patel just dropped a bombshell that’s shaking up Washington with the force of a political earthquake.
Breitbart reported that Patel has exposed and acted against a covert operation by former Special Counsel Jack Smith, which tracked phone calls of eight Republican senators and a congressman during an investigation into President Donald Trump, leading to the firing of involved agents and the dismantling of a key FBI squad.
Let’s rewind to the roots of this saga: back in 2023, subpoenas were quietly issued to major phone companies, scooping up communication records of prominent GOP figures.
Among those targeted were Senators Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee, Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, Josh Hawley of Missouri, Cynthia Lummis of Wyoming, Bill Hagerty of Tennessee, Dan Sullivan of Alaska, Tommy Tuberville of Alabama, and Representative Mike Kelly of Pennsylvania.
These records were funneled to Smith’s so-called “Arctic Frost” team, part of a broader probe into Trump that somehow stayed under the radar—until now.
The public had no clue about this investigation until this week, when Patel pulled back the curtain on what smells like a classic case of bureaucratic overreach.
Patel, stepping into the director’s role with a mission, unearthed these files from what he described as a digital black hole—a “lockbox” stashed in a “vault” in some shadowy cyber corner.
“You put it in there when you want to hide it from the world, and that takes the authorization of the attorney general and the director of the FBI,” Patel said in a Tuesday interview on Fox News.
Well, isn’t that a cozy little arrangement? If you’re hoping no one finds your dirty laundry, just bury it where even the most determined bloodhound can’t sniff it out—except Patel knew exactly where to look, and he’s not playing hide-and-seek.
Not content with just exposing the operation, Patel swung the axe, firing the agents who facilitated this secret surveillance of U.S. lawmakers.
He didn’t stop there—he completely dismantled CR-15, the public corruption squad at the Washington Field Office, which he claims spearheaded this weaponization of law enforcement against political opponents.
Now, that’s a cleanup job that would make even the most hardened D.C. insider raise an eyebrow—finally, someone’s taking out the trash instead of just sweeping it under the rug.
Senator Josh Hawley didn’t mince words, calling it “an abuse of power beyond Watergate, beyond J. Edgar Hoover, one that directly strikes at the Constitution, the separation of powers, and the First Amendment,” in a post on X.
“We need a full investigation of all involved: who knew about it, who ordered it, and who approved it,” Hawley continued on X, demanding prosecution for anyone who broke the law.
And honestly, when a senator invokes Watergate, you know the stakes are sky-high—let’s hope this call for accountability isn’t just another soundbite lost in the D.C. echo chamber.