Jack Smith spied on me in Congress this illegal weaponization needs to end

One year ago, when whistleblowers first revealed that special counsel Jack Smith and the FBI had targeted Republican senators in a highly secretive and unconstitutional spying operation, I immediately picked up the phone and called my close friend and colleague Jim Jordan.“Jim, there is no way that we weren’t spied on,” I said.“There’s a larger list and my hunch is that we’re both on it.”Smith’s surveillance operation, dubbed Arctic Frost, was part of the obsessive and sustained illegal witch hunt aimed at President Donald Trump, his political allies and his voters.And for years, Rep.

Jordan and I had been two of the most outspoken leaders in the House of Representatives against illegal weaponization — going back to our time on the Intelligence Committee, when we served on the defense team during the first illegal impeachment attempt of the president’s first term.Now, thanks to the great, dogged oversight work of Chairman Chuck Grassley, Sen.Ron Johnson and others, we know that my instinct was right: The sweeping weaponization is wide and deep — and is an attack on the Constitution and the American people.Americans have long suspected that Joe Biden’s hand-picked special prosecutor weaponized government at the highest levels, in part by unconstitutionally spying on members of Congress — including me — and by perjuring himself when Congress questioned him about it.On Tuesday, newly declassified records confirmed exactly that.Smith’s team unlawfully and unconstitutionally accessed my private text messages, along with 43 other members of Congress, in clear violation of the Constitution.They not only spied on the existence of text messages concerning our legislative and constitutional duties to represent our constituents and vote on their behalf; they illegally accessed the content of those messages, too.Then, when asked by House members directly and under oath whether he had surveilled those messages’ contents, Jack Smith perjured hims...