They said no one is above the law, then built a law above everyone. Early this morning, Newsweek ran an unbelievable story headlined, “
Jack Smith Faces New Arrest Calls Over ‘Arctic Frost’ Investigation.” The Storm has reached Category Two— and it’s getting very, very, cold.
I called the story “unbelievable” not because this kind of treacherous weaponization by Democrats is
unimaginable, but because it was
so poorly conceived that it calls into question progressives’ admittedly tenuous grasp on reality at all.
To remind you: “Arctic Frost” is what Biden special prosecutor Jack Smith called a double-top-secret FBI operation that surveilled over 100 conservative groups, including the GOP. Now recall that Nixon was forced to resign in disgrace for allegedly surveilling just the DNC, and just once.
Just saying.
Yesterday, Senator Chuck Grassley and the Senate Judiciary Committee published new documents disclosing that Arctic Frost also secretly tapped the phones of
ten sitting Republican Senators. They were: Lindsey Graham, Bill Hagerty, Josh Hawley, Dan Sullivan, Tommy Tuberville, Ron Johnson, Cynthia Lummis, Marsha Blackburn, and Mike Kelly:
If Republicans in Congress weren’t already convinced that the Democrats are a threat to
everybody —and not just Trump, MAGA people, January 6th tourists, pro-life activists, antivaxxers, and Catholics— well, this should do it.
The document proving Biden spied on the Senate was helpfully provided by a cooperating whistleblower. One begins to wonder how many whistleblowers they have and how much more will be coming out before all-Hades demands payment.
The documents could only have come from a whistleblower because Biden’s FBI used secret archives to conceal incriminating information. These storage facilities are paper-only, and are stuffed in burn bags in the backs of random, locked broom closets in various locales where nobody knows. This practice allows the conspirators to avoid liability for destroying government governments, but at the same time, by putting them where they can never be found, they’ve
effectively destroyed them.
The newly revealed intel inflates the whole sordid story from a tale of “get Trump” to something much more personal—
get Congress. They’re supposed to
oversee the FBI, not be part of a dragnet fishing expedition. It’s one thing to investigate a single lawmaker for corruption or something. It is a completely different kettle of carp to drag groups of Senators in search of prosecutable crimes. That’s KGB-style stuff.
If Congress cannot oversee the FBI, then the FBI now oversees Congress. In other words, the Constitution’s checks bounced.
Angry Democrats convicted President Trump of
34 felonies for notations on check stubs. Imagine the howls of outrage had Trump’s FBI been spying on
them. Put another way, if Democrats fail to be equally outraged now, how can they complain about having their own phones tapped?
In short, this new disclosure dramatically escalates the investigation into Biden’s dirty tricks. Nothing concentrates a lawmaker’s mind like realizing the surveillance state has been eavesdropping on them.
The Senate runs on status, and nothing punctures its self-importance like discovering it’s been treated as a suspect class. The instinct for self-preservation transcends party lines. Even the most surveillance-sympathetic senators will now flirt with reform, if only to prove they’re not the executive’s lapdogs. The Bureau may find itself facing the kind of bipartisan scrutiny it hasn’t seen since the Church Committee — and this time, the Committee has Wi-Fi, A.I., and more lawyers.
Put another way, now that the Senate has discovered it was among the hunted, the mood in Washington has shifted from detached curiosity to personal outrage. What was once “partisan oversight” is now institutional self-defense. The difference is night and subpoena. Even better, the FBI’s new leadership isn’t resisting; they’re
cooperating. That changes everything. It’s another stark difference from the Church Committee days. This time, the Bureau isn’t digging in — it’s handing over shovels. The quiet dread inside the executive branch isn’t that Congress will overreach, but that it finally won’t stop.
The Storm has reached Category Two, and the air on Capitol Hill crackles with the electric energy of
self-preservation. Senators who once rolled their eyes at “weaponization” are now sketching the blueprints for reform on the backs of subpoena folders. It’s exactly the kind of scandal that births history’s big resets —Church-Committee-scale stuff— but this time, the Bureau isn’t digging in; it’s digging
out.
For the moment, set aside ‘arrests,’ however satisfying those might be.
Think bigger.
All those wrathful senators are furiously brainstorming how to hem in the intelligence agencies. They’re not doing it for us; they’re doing it for themselves. But in Washington, self-preservation is the only reliable form of public service, and to protect themselves, they’ll have to dribble out a little protection to the rest of us, too.
For the first time in a generation,
repeal of the Patriot Act is conceivably on the table. The same law that built the surveillance empire might now be the first casualty of its excesses. When Congress rewrites the rules this time, an obliging FBI won’t be the mulish adversary— it’ll be volunteering as Exhibit A. And if this storm keeps building, the next wave won’t just wash away a scandal; it might cleanse decades of bureaucratic rot.
CBS shakeup installs free-speech champion as chief editor; stunned Democrats watch corporate media sink; documents reveal Biden spied on Senators; fallout begins; Florida restores crosswalk sanity.
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