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FBI and Senate Phone Records
By: The Editorial Board - wsj.com - October 7, 2025
Was Jack Smith looking for evidence to indict a few GOP lawmakers?Mr. Grassley said the FBI’s records request was approved by a grand jury, and according to his office the data obtained ran from Jan. 4 to Jan. 7, 2021. This does not include the contents of any phone conversations, but it shows who called whom, when, and for how long.
“There’s no predicate that we can find for the solicitation of these telephone records,” Mr. Grassley said at a news conference, “which I think emphasizes the political weaponization that was behind all this effort, and we’re still getting more information.”
Mr. Johnson called it a “fishing expedition” and “blatant political persecution,” pointing to the timeline of Mr. Smith’s case against Mr. Trump for trying to overturn the 2020 election. That indictment came in August 2023. This FBI document, describing a “preliminary toll analysis” of the Republican lawmakers, is dated Sep. 27, 2023.
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