A major breakthrough in the investigation of alleged Biden administration spying on Republican lawmakers was just announced.
Under Biden, investigators collected 30 million lines of phone data mapping contacts between conservative lawmakers and the Trump White House.
The massive collection of phone records was revealed to the FBI in late 2023 by former Rep. Adam Kinzinger, according to an FBI memo recently uncovered by Director Kash Patel. Kinzinger told the bureau the records had been compiled by former GOP Rep. Denver Riggleman, who served as a senior adviser to the Democrat-led January 6 committee investigators — and later worked for Hunter Biden’s legal team.
The FBI revealed that Riggleman used congressional subpoenas to collect the data without a warrant. Kinzinger later offered the massive cache of data to the Biden administration’s FBI in December 2023, a year after he’d left Congress and right before the 2024 presidential election.
Riggleman “had a contact and was able to obtain toll information including for White House root or switchboard numbers via congressional subpoena” while working with the committee.
“Kinzinger indicated that Riggleman may have never received direction on what to do with the toll data, which included approximately 30 million lines of data,” FBI agents wrote.
The revelation comes just one week after reports that Special Counsel Jack Smith and the FBI’s Arctic Frost investigation collected phone records of eight Republican senators and one GOP House member.
An FBI record from 2023 showed investigators targeted Senators Ron Johnson, Lindsey Graham, Bill Hagerty, Josh Hawley, Dan Sullivan, Tommy Tuberville, Cynthia Lummis, and Marsha Blackburn, along with Rep. Mike Kelly.
The Biden administration’s Arctic Frost investigation also targeted 92 Republican-linked individuals and organizations, including Turning Point USA, the Republican Attorneys General Association, and the Save America PAC.
“Arctic Frost wasn’t just a case to politically investigate Trump. It was the vehicle by which partisan FBI agents and DOJ prosecutors could achieve their partisan ends and improperly investigate the entire Republican political apparatus,” Sen. Chuck Grassley said.
After leaving the January 6 committee, Riggleman joined Hunter Biden’s legal team in late 2022.
“As a result of our latest disclosure about the baseless monitoring of members of Congress by the prior leadership team of the FBI, we have already taken the following actions: We terminated employees, we abolished the weaponized CR-15 squad, and we initiated an ongoing investigation with more accountability measures ahead,” FBI Director Kash Patel announced Tuesday.