For generations, Americans have trusted their institutions to protect democracy, not prey upon it. But once you lost trust it’s nearly impossible to restore, and recent revelations about our federal law enforcement agencies suggest that trust deserves a thorough audit.
The founding fathers understood power’s corrupting nature. They built checks and balances into our system precisely because they knew that unchecked authority inevitably turns tyrannical.
History teaches us this lesson repeatedly – from J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI files on political enemies to the Church Committee’s shocking discoveries about domestic surveillance in the 1970s. Each generation must learn anew that eternal vigilance is freedom’s price.
Call me cynical, but I’m never surprised anymore when the watchers need watching. Perhaps it’s that peculiarly American optimism, that belief that this time will be different, that our institutions have learned from past mistakes. But power doesn’t learn; it only seeks more power.
Remember when we were called paranoid for suggesting the deep state was real?
The Surveillance Bombshell
Which brings us to the explosive revelation that the FBI, under the Biden administration, obtained private cell phone records from nine Republican lawmakers during its Arctic Frost operation — an investigation that morphed into Special Counsel Jack Smith’s federal case against President Trump.
Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson, one of those targeted, put it bluntly: “we were surveilled simply for being Republicans.”
And now, one of the Senators who claimed to be under surveillance, Tennessee GOP Senator Marsha Blackburn, is fighting back. From ‘Just the News’:
We know that they pulled what is called the toll data, that is every call we either made or received, the duration of the call, the individual and the number that it was to and from, and then also the physical location where we were when that call was either made or received.
I can assure you this, we will be suing the Biden DOJ, Jack Smith, and his CR-15 team.
Blackburn identified the common thread binding all targets: “These guys just hated Donald Trump, and they hated us because we supported Donald Trump and we were standing with Donald Trump.”
Yes, your government tracked elected officials like criminals, or worse, like January 6th grandmothers. The FBI didn’t just collect call logs; they tracked where these senators were when making calls, information that telecommunications carriers like Verizon apparently surrendered without notifying their customers.
Legal Gymnastics and Political Theater
Jack Smith’s lawyers have now attempted damage control, characterizing this covert surveillance as “entirely proper, lawful, and consistent with established Department of Justice policy.” They claim toll records are merely “historical in nature” as if knowing who our elected representatives speak with, when, and where isn’t a massive constitutional violation.
Senator Grassley’s response to this legal gymnastics was succinct: “SMELLS LIKE POLITICS.” Indeed, comparing the surveillance of senators investigating legitimate election concerns to criminal probes of actual suspects reveals the desperate nature of their defense.
The reckoning has begun. The FBI has fired several agents involved in Arctic Frost. Blackburn promises lawsuits against Biden’s DOJ and Jack Smith specifically. Representatives are calling for criminal investigations under Attorney General Pam Bondi.
Here’s what keeps me up at night: If they can surveil sitting members of Congress for supporting Trump, imagine what they’re doing to ordinary conservatives. The surveillance state we were warned about isn’t coming; it’s here, wearing a badge and claiming everything’s “lawful.”
Key Takeaways
- FBI secretly obtained phone records from nine GOP lawmakers who supported Trump
- Jack Smith allegedly used illegally obtained records in Trump prosecution
- Senator Blackburn launching lawsuits against Biden DOJ officials
Sources: The Blaze, Just The News, Fox News
