WND reported a week ago that there was a campaign under was to seek the disbarment of Jack Smith, the one-time Joe Biden-picked special prosecutor who ran multiple lawfare cases against President Donald Trump, which eventually failed.
Now that request has formally been submitted.
It is the New York Post that has confirmed a letter from elected officials, led by Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., to Attorney General Pam Bondi, accuses Biden’s DOJ of having “spied on duly elected members of Congress.”
It demands that Smith be investigated by the Office of Professional Responsibility.
“As part of Jack Smith’s weaponized witch hunt, the Biden DOJ issued subpoenas to several telecommunications companies in 2023 regarding our cell phone records, gaining access to the time, recipient, duration, and location of calls placed on our devices from January 4, 2021, to January 7, 2021,” Blackburn charged.
The letter continued, “We have yet to learn of any legal predicate for the Biden Department of Justice issuing subpoenas to obtain these cell phone records.”
Other lawmakers joining the demand were Sens. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., and Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska, and Rep. Mike Kelly, R-Penn.
Smith is accused of using his power as a government appointee to infringe on the constitutional rights of elected officials and “trampled on this separation of powers principle that underlies our system of government.”
The lawmakers continued, “This is especially true given the invasion of our privacy was directly connected to our core legislative functions protected by the Speech or Debate Clause of our Constitution. To the best we can tell, Smith’s team went on this fishing expedition for one simple reason: we are Republicans who support President Trump.”
They asked for Smith to be referred for disbarment to the Tennessee Board of Professional Responsibility and the New York Attorney Grievance Committee, since he is licensed to practice law in both states.
They charged that the scheming from Smith and his team “harkens back to a dark chapter in American history that we have not seen since the days of J. Edgar Hoover, and the completely corrupt investigation and prosecution by the FBI and DOJ of the late Senator Ted Stevens of Alaska. We must ensure that we never return to these disgraceful eras.”
The other found lawmakers targeted by Smith’s spying included Sens. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., Bill Hagerty, R-Tenn., Josh Hawley, R-Mo., and Cynthia Lummis, R-Wyo.
Commentators have speculated the spying was done by Smith as part of a scheme to possibly file additional legal cases against Trump should Kamala Harris win the election, and the lawmakers’ telephone data would be used as evidence.
Harris, of course, lost in a landslide.
Blackburn previously sent letters to Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile asking why the phone carriers let “this invasion of privacy … occur wholly unchallenged.”
Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, the chief of the Senate Judiciary Committee, described the scandal as “arguably worse than Watergate.”
