Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, who chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee, said the FBI’s actions were political espionage and were “worse than Watergate.”
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In an alleged home-grown political spying ploy reminiscent of Watergate, the Democrat-led House committee that investigated the Jan. 6, 2021, attack at the Capitol supposedly probed phone data on Republicans without a warrant, according to a story by Newsmax.
The partisan panel of former Speaker Nancy Pelosi, which consisted of Democrats and two anti-Trump Republicans, executed a congressional clout to amass about 30 million lines of phone data describing communications between conservatives and the Trump White House, Just the News reported.
Amassed without warrants, the immense surveillance collection of private call metadata has sparked new civil liberty concerns.
Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., one of the alleged Republican turncoats and one of the GOP members of the committee, gave the documents to the FBI in late 2023. He reportedly made the offer just weeks before the 2024 presidential election, according to an FBI memo reviewed by Just the News.
Biden's FBI spied on my phone calls AND tracked my location
— Josh Hawley (@HawleyMO) October 7, 2025
But they didn't stop there. They also targeted parents, pro-lifers & 92 conservative organizations like Charlie Kirk's TPUSA
We need a thorough investigation – and there needs to be prosecutions pic.twitter.com/19r7uA1H4b
President Donald Trump lambasted the revelations on Truth Social, posting, “So terrible!” with a link to the Just the News report.
According to Newsmax, the FBI memo stated Kinzinger told the bureau that former congressman and committee staffer Denver Riggleman had used congressional subpoenas to obtain “toll information” (phone record data) that included White House switchboard numbers.
Riggleman, a former Republican who later was employed with Hunter Biden’s legal team, was said to have conducted the analysis linking various numbers to the White House.
Though it did not indicate if the bureau accepted Kinzinger’s offer, the FBI document revealed the far-reaching scope of the Jan. 6 committee’s phone data collection efforts. By December 2023, when Kinzinger approached the FBI, he had left Congress and the Jan. 6 committee had been dissolved for nearly a year.
Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, who chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee, said the FBI’s actions were nothing short of political spying. “This document shows the Biden FBI spied on eight of my Republican Senate colleagues,” Grassley said on X, calling it “worse than Watergate.”
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