Biden DOJ Dragnet Targeted Even More GOP Legislators Under Secret ‘Arctic Frost’ Surveillance Program
Newly released records point to an extraordinary surveillance campaign by the Biden regime that went far beyond anything previously disclosed — sweeping up the private phone data of multiple Republican lawmakers without their knowledge.
House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan (R-OH) confirmed that the Biden Justice Department secretly collected his personal phone records for more than two years under a covert initiative known as Operation Arctic Frost. Speaking with Newsmax, Jordan revealed that federal prosecutors demanded Verizon hand over his phone metadata from January 2020 through April 2022, a timeframe he said underscores the highly political nature of the operation.
“When you think about what they did for two and a half years — who you call, who called you, how long the call lasted, when the call took place — and if I initiated the call, they know where you were when you made it,” Jordan said. “That’s kind of creepy that the government’s doing that and gathering up that information for that long of a period of time.”
The subpoena — issued by a federal prosecutor who later became part of Special Counsel Jack Smith’s team — instructed Verizon to surrender “toll records,” including call logs, message metadata, and location information, while simultaneously binding the carrier with a one-year gag order. The demand also named three additional phone numbers whose owners have never been identified publicly.
Jordan said the document was dated April 2022, coming just months after the launch of Arctic Frost — an investigation initially pitched to the public as a narrow probe into the 2020 “alternate electors” scenario, yet rapidly broadened to include Trump campaign associates and elected Republicans on Capitol Hill.
“It was supposed to be about the alternate electors on January 6, 2021,” Jordan said. “They started a year before that. They issued this subpoena literally 12 days after the investigation began. What’s our government doing getting that kind of information on one of its citizens — and a member of Congress?”
The subpoena explicitly “commanded” Verizon to produce not only metadata but also image and encryption-associated data, a scope experts have described as one of the largest surveillance orders ever aimed at sitting members of Congress.
“This wasn’t about security or law enforcement,” Jordan said on Fox News. “This was about spying on political opponents. The Biden DOJ wanted to know who Republicans were talking to and what we were doing.”
Operation Arctic Frost subsequently funneled information into Jack Smith’s special counsel investigation, which brought charges against current President Donald J. Trump earlier this year. Smith’s team has not responded to the allegations about Jordan’s phone records.
Jordan, who became chair of the House Judiciary Committee in 2023 after serving as the ranking member, said prosecutors have refused to disclose how many other lawmakers were caught in the dragnet.
“When we asked Thomas Windom, Jack Smith’s top deputy, how many members of Congress they got phone records on, he wouldn’t answer,” Jordan said. “That tells you everything you need to know.”
Fox News reporter Ashley Oliver called the order “the most expansive yet of the publicly known orders targeting sitting lawmakers.”
Republican allies described the revelations as proof of weaponized government power. One senior GOP staffer told The Washington Times, “Seizing members’ phone records is not law enforcement — it’s political espionage. If this happened in any other democracy, it would be considered a scandal of the first order.”
Attorney General Pam Bondi previously warned that Arctic Frost and related investigations showed “how far the Biden DOJ went to weaponize government power against its political enemies.”
Jordan and multiple Republicans now intend to use congressional authority to compel accountability from the Justice Department and the architects of the surveillance campaign.
“We’re going to get answers,” he said. “This is exactly the kind of weaponization that Americans are tired of — government agencies spying on political rivals while pretending to protect democracy.”
Additional reports in recent months suggest other Republicans were also targeted as part of the same Biden DOJ operation — raising urgent questions about how many elected officials were swept into the surveillance net.