House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, told Newsmax on Wednesday that Jack Smith — who served as special counsel under the Biden administration — must answer serious questions about spying on members of Congress and associates of President Donald Trump.
Jordan said newly released information shows the spy program, code-named “Operation Arctic Frost,” may have targeted as many as 150 members of Congress and key Trump associates, far beyond the initial reports of just eight senators.
Jordan said Smith needs to talk, as he was managing the effort.
“This is why we want to talk to Jack Smith, why we’ve asked him to come in for a deposition as soon as possible,” Jordan said on “The Record With Greta Van Susteren.” “We got to ask him questions, because we’ve already deposed two of his deputies, and they took the Fifth [Amendment] 71 and 73 times.”
Were they acting “to undermine and hurt President Trump in a political way?” Jordan asked, suggesting the scope of the operation has broader implications than previously disclosed.
“Key people in the Trump administration, key people that they went after, getting communications, phone records, bank records, all kinds of things they were going after,” he said.
He accused Smith of holding the information — “This is how expansive Arctic Frost started out and how it expanded even more when Jack Smith was named special counsel and he took over the investigation.”
The Arctic Frost operation was launched in April 2022 and later assigned to Smith to examine alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election.
Documents released by Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, indicate the FBI collected phone metadata from eight Republican senators and one House member between Jan. 4 and Jan. 7, 2021 — though lawmakers say the total number of targets may be higher.
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