Margot Cleveland of the Federalist offered Congressional testimony about significant federal government misdeeds.
After the 2020 election, an anti-Trump FBI agent named Tim Thibault attempted to use the justice department to destroy the President. Thibault’s efforts led to the launch of Arctic Frost. Soon after, Merrick Garland tapped Jack Smith, a “hyper-aggressive prosecutor,” known to “overstretch the meaning and intent of the law,” to serve as Special Counsel.
Smith proved himself true to form, indicting Trump for allegedly violating a statute enacted in the aftermath of Enron, based in part on a theory of criminal liability the Supreme Court would later hold invalid. The Supreme Court would later halt Smith’s efforts to prosecute Trump for actions that fell within the President’s official duties.
Beyond being a partisan in his own right, Smith stacked his team with partisan Democrats, such as J.P. Cooney and Ray Hulser. Cooney and Hulser served as Smith’s top deputies and in them, we see the clear double standard and political bias that permeated the DOJ and FBI. …
… As this Committee well knows — because many of you were the victims — Smith approved the subpoenas and obtained the toll records of Senators Blackburn, Graham, Hagerty, Hawley, Lummis, Johnson, Kennedy, Scott, Sullivan, and Tuberville. Only Senator Cruz escaped this invasion into his privacy and the violation of the Speech or Debate clause because his cell phone provider questioned the subpoena.
From this Subcommittee’s January 7, hearing, you also know Smith’s team sought a non-disclosure order from Chief Judge James Boasberg — apparently without informing him the subpoenas targeted members of Congress. I say “apparently” because, to date, Chairman Cruz’s request that the non-disclosure application be unsealed has been ignored.
Here we see yet another double standard, as well as the political weaponization of the Courts: Judge Boasberg has still failed to order that Smith and his prosecutors show cause for why they should not be held in contempt for concealing that members of Congress were the subpoena targets.
