WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Senator Rick Scott joined Senator Marsha Blackburn and several of their colleagues in a letter to Attorney General (AG) Pam Bondi requesting that she unseal any relevant grand jury materials from the Biden Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Arctic Frost witch hunt probe into Republican members of Congress and President Trump. The senators also asked AG Bondi to use every tool at her disposal to uncover how this egregious weaponization of government was allowed to occur.

This letter comes after recent news that Senator Scott was among several Republicans targeted by the Biden DOJ’s Arctic Frost witch hunt investigation. Senator Scott has also sent a letter to AG Bondi calling for a DOJ investigation into this witch hunt, and a letter to Verizon demanding answers as to why they complied with the Biden administration’s unlawful and secretive surveillance of members of Congress.

Read the full letter to Attorney General Bondi HERE or below:

Dear Attorney General Bondi:

We write today to urge you to use every tool at your disposal to uncover a key component of the weaponized, Biden-era Arctic Frost investigation that targeted ten United States Senators.  As you know, the Biden Department of Justice (DOJ) sought and ultimately obtained cell phone “tolling data” from at least eleven members of Congress.  While we have learned more about the corrupt nature of this investigation in the weeks that have followed this disturbing revelation, there is still much that we do not know.

In May 2023, the Biden DOJ—at the direction of Special Counsel Jack Smith—issued grand jury subpoenas to several telecommunications companies regarding our cell phone records, gaining access to the time, recipient, duration, and location of calls placed on our devices from January 4, 2021, to January 7, 2021.  As we have recently learned, attached to that subpoena was a nondisclosure order, signed by Chief Judge James Boasberg.

Under the Stored Communications Act, the government may seek a court order “for such a period as the court deems appropriate, not to notify any other person of the existence” of the grand jury subpoena at issue. Further, a federal judge may only enter such a non-disclosure order if there is “reason to believe” that notifying an individual of the subpoena would result in “(1) endangering the life or physical safety of an individual; (2) flight from prosecution; (3) destruction of or tampering with evidence; (4) intimidation of potential witnesses; or (5) otherwise seriously jeopardizing an investigation or unduly delaying a trial.”

Astoundingly, Judge Boasberg found “reasonable grounds” to conclude that, if we were notified of these unlawful subpoenas, “such disclosure will result in destruction of or tampering with evidence, intimidation of potential witnesses, and serious jeopardy to the [Arctic Frost] investigation.”  In short, without citing any factual basis to support these supposed “reasonable grounds,” Judge Boasberg determined that multiple United States Senators would destroy evidence and intimidate witnesses—a conclusion that defies both logic and the facts.  Plain and simple: we did nothing wrong, and there is zero evidence to conclude that we would have destroyed evidence or intimidated witnesses.

We write because the American people deserve to know more about the “reasonable grounds” that Judge Boasberg found to avoid informing us of these unlawful subpoenas.  The Stored Communications Act makes clear that the government—when seeking a non-disclosure order under § 2705(b)—must submit an application that sets forth the factual background showing reasonable grounds for the gag order.  It is our understanding that this application is currently under seal in the Arctic Frost grand jury materials.  We urge you to immediately move to unseal and provide this application that accompanied the gag order.  Judge Boasberg’s order was a blatant abuse of power, and we must get to the bottom of how he arrived at the baseless conclusion that duly elected members of Congress would destroy evidence or intimidate witnesses.

Jack Smith and the Biden DOJ spied on their political opponents, violated the Constitution, and weaponized the justice system to target members of Congress—all in an effort to go after President Trump.  The American people deserve transparency about this egregious investigation and the full extent of the corruption of Jack Smith’s witch hunt.  Unsealing this document is a critical step forward in our efforts to hold accountable Jack Smith, Judge Boasberg, and all individuals who participated in this miscarriage of justice.

Thank you for your continued work to root out the two-tiered system of justice that existed for far too long under President Biden’s watch. 

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