Jack Smith Seeks Cover With Latest Claims Related

Every day, it appears we’re studying more about the huge spying on of Republican members of Congress led by then-special counsel Jack Smith under former President Joe Biden as half of his administration’s intensive lawfare.

According to particulars launched Wednesday from the previous particular counsel’s latest deposition, Smith’s latest attempt to discover cowl from his actions is that it wasn’t the coverage at the time to reveal the names of lawmakers in the subpoenas filed with judges demanding the cellphone information from carriers like AT&T and Verizon. The deposition was taken during a December 17 assembly with the House Judiciary Committee.

Jack Smith withheld names of GOP lawmakers from judges who granted access to cellphone information https://t.co/Fe2np7wix2 pic.twitter.com/gHku0g6naG

— New York Post (@nypost) December 31, 2025

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Here’s how issues went down:

Asked by an unidentified Judiciary Committee questioner whether or not judges who authorized the subpoenas knew they had been demanding that cellphone carriers AT&T and Verizon hand over lawmakers’ call logs, Smith said: “I don’t think we identified that, because I don’t think that was Department policy at the time.”

Judiciary members pushed back that Smith’s crew risked infringing on constitutional “speech or debate protections” for lawmakers, around a dozen of whom — including former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) and the panel’s chairman, Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) — had their cellphone metadata taken.

“When it comes to Members of Congress, though, there are, you know, the Speech or Debate protections, which you totally sidestepped,” the unidentified questioner requested. “I mean, the toll records provide enormous [sic] valuable information, because it shows who a Member of Congress, who a Senator is taking calls from and who they’re calling.”

“And if you map it up against the Senate or the House calendar, you can see, you know, what the inputs are to their legislative decision-making, which is at the core of Speech or Debate. Do you agree with that?” the questioner added.

Smith replied that he and his workplace personally take the “protections of the Speech or Debate Clause seriously,” noting that they’re “an important part of separation of powers.”

Smith claimed that when the subpoenas had been sought, “we got approval from [the Department of Justice’s] Public Integrity [Section], who are the sort of keepers of that issue, and they concurred in us getting these subpoenas. It was an apparent attempt to push the actions onto the DOJ.

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As RedState reported, GOP lawmakers have called for the impeachment of Judge James Boasberg, who granted those phone records requests, with Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) calling it an “abuse of power.” Though Smith’s deposition now calls into question whether Boasberg actually knew the subpoenas were for Cruz and other Republican lawmakers.

Jan. 6 panel’s ‘star witness’ Cassidy Hutchinson provided ‘secondhand hearsay’ on Capitol riot: Jack Smith https://t.co/1YS4HQq1Ct pic.twitter.com/7eRknOYGsj

— New York Post (@nypost) December 31, 2025

Another shocking thing that was revealed in the deposition transcript was the fact that Smith admitted that the January 6 Committee’s star witness and former Trump White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson had no firsthand knowledge about some of the wild claims she made about that day and President Donald Trump, Fox News reported.

Smith said particular claims had been like those of a “second or even thirdhand witness.” Other witnesses shared “different views” than Hutchinson’s, he explained.

“If I had been a protection attorney and Ms. Hutchinson had been a witness, the first factor I’d do was search to preclude some of her testimony because it was rumour,” Smith stated, “and I don’t have the full vary of her testimony in entrance of me proper now, but I do bear in mind that that was a respectable half of it.”

Smith went on to mention that “a quantity of the issues that she gave evidence on had been secondhand rumour, had been issues that she had heard from other people, and, as a end result, that testimony might or might not be admissible, and it actually wouldn’t be as highly effective as firsthand testimony.”

My oh my, how issues look very different now that President Trump is back in workplace.

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