Overview
- The letter to Senate Judiciary leaders Chuck Grassley and Dick Durbin disputes assertions that investigators tapped lawmakers’ phones or spied on them.
- The records obtained in 2023 covered Jan. 4–7, 2021 for eight senators and one House member and showed numbers dialed, timing and duration, not call content.
- Smith’s team sought the data to evaluate reports that Trump and his allies called senators to urge delaying certification of the 2020 election.
- The attorneys say the step was cleared by DOJ’s Public Integrity Section and note similar use of toll data in the Hur–Biden and Menendez investigations.
- Republican oversight pushes continue, with several senators asking Attorney General Pam Bondi to investigate after the FBI’s disclosure fueled hearing-room claims of “tapping.”