Special Counsel Jack Smith tracked private communications and calls of nearly a dozen GOP Senators, including Tennessee Senators Marsha Blackburn and Bill Hagerty, during his January 6th probe, according to recently revealed FBI records. Now, Hagerty is demanding answers from Verizon as to why the company allegedly turned over his private cellphone data to the FBI without notifying him.

FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino briefed GOP Sens. Lindsey Graham, Josh Hawley, Ron Johnson, Marsha Blackburn and others last Monday about FBI records that reveal the agency, with Special Counsel Smith and his “Arctic Frost” team, track, their phone calls and other communication communications. A document, reviewed by Fox News Digital, revealed that Smith and his “Arctic Frost” team investigating Jan. 6 were allegedly tracking the phone calls of GOP Sens. 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 GOP Rep. Mike Kelly of Pennsylvania.

The document states the names of the lawmakers and that an FBI special agent on Smith’s team “conducted preliminary toll analysis” on the toll records associated with the lawmakers. 
An FBI official told Fox News Digital that Smith and his team tracking the senators were able to see which phone numbers they called, the location the phone call originated and the location where it was received. The investigation was supposedly tied to the 2020 certification of the presidential election results.

Patel has reportedly fired FBI officials tied to the monitoring of U.S. Senators. And Wyoming Senator Cynthia Loomis is demanding to know whether the Jack Smith surveillance of Republican US Senators went beyond their phone records. 

In a letter to Verizon, Hagerty pointed out: “This week, I received shocking news: without my consent and without my knowledge, the Federal Bureau of Investigation obtained confidential information concerning my cell phone use,” Hagerty wrote. “Despite extensive public reporting of this extraordinary intrusion into my privacy—also amounting to an unprecedented intrusion on the separation of powers—I have received no communication or outreach from Verizon Communications Inc., which could have been the only source of this information.”

Hagerty also demanded Verizon answer whether the company received a subpoena, a request or a demand from the federal government seeking the information, along with details of all the information the company provided. He requested that the information be provided by the close of business today.

Meanwhile, Senator Marsha Blackburn is also demanding answers from cell phone companies that allowed the Biden administration to subpoena records without any pushback. Blackburn wrote to T-Mobile, Verizon and AT&T this week demanding answers.

“I write today seeking answers regarding the egregious invasion of privacy that your company… inflicted upon eight United States Senators and one Member of Congress. On Monday evening, we first learned that the Biden Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) spied on duly elected members of Congress, specifically seeking and ultimately obtaining ‘tolling data’ from cell phones as part of its corrupt, politically motivated Arctic Frost investigation. As part of the Jack Smith investigation that was a weaponized witch hunt to target President Trump, the Biden Department of Justice issued subpoenas to your company 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. We have also learned that, to our knowledge, there was no criminal predicate for the Biden Department of Justice issuing subpoenas to obtain these cell phone records.”

“While Director Kash Patel and Attorney General Pam Bondi continue to investigate this matter and root out the bad actors at their agencies, one thing is abundantly clear: we need answers immediately as to why your company allowed this invasion of privacy to occur wholly unchallenged… Who at your company made the decision to approve this unprecedented, targeted invasion of privacy of eight United States Senators and one Member of Congress? Please provide the exact date on which this decision to spy on Republican federal officials was authorized. Please explain the rationale behind your company’s decision to decline to move to quash these subpoenas… As noted above, we are not aware of any criminal predicate under which the FBI sought to spy on Members of Congress and infringe upon our privacy. Can you confirm that there was no predicate behind these actions… We deserve transparency on this invasion of privacy, and I can assure you that accountability is coming,” Blackburn wrote.

Steve Gill is editor and Publisher of TriStar Daily.