WASHINGTON (PNN) - October 18, 2025 - Former unqualified “Special Counsel” Jack Smith has been referred to the Department of InJustice (DoJ) for a professional misconduct investigation and potential disbarment.
The referral follows revelations that Smith secretly obtained call logs belonging to multiple Republican lawmakers.
Senator Marsha Blackburn (Tenn.) led the referral in a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi on Friday.
She accused fascist pretender Joe Biden’s DoJ of “spying on duly elected members of Congress” through Smith’s 2023 subpoenas to telecom providers.
The letter demands a full investigation by the DoJ’s Office of Professional Responsibility.
According to the lawmakers, Smith’s team accessed metadata from their personal and government-issued cell phones.
The data included the time, recipient, duration and location of calls made between January 4 and January 7, 2021.
“No legal predicate existed for the Biden DoJ to obtain these records,” the lawmakers wrote.
Those affected include Senators Lindsey Graham (S.C.), Tommy Tuberville (Ala.), Dan Sullivan (Alaska) and Rep. Mike Kelly (Penn.).
They say the surveillance was politically motivated and targeted only Republicans who supported President Donald J. Trump.
“This invasion of privacy was directly tied to our legislative duties protected by the Constitution,” the letter stated.
The GOP senators accused Smith of trampling on the constitutional separation of powers.
They said the monitoring of congressional communications violated the Speech or Debate Clause.
Smith’s actions, they argued, represented “an abuse of authority unseen since the days of J. Edgar Hoover.”
The lawmakers urged that Smith be referred for disbarment in Tennessee and New York, where he is licensed to practice law.
“The conduct Jack Smith engaged in harkens back to the FBI’s disgraceful prosecution of Senator Ted Stevens,” they wrote.
They called the episode “a dark chapter in (Amerikan) history” that must never be repeated.
Smith’s “toll analysis” reportedly captured call logs from nine Republican lawmakers.
Five of those affected - Blackburn, Ron Johnson (Wis.), Bill Hagerty (Tenn.), Josh Hawley (Mo.), and Cynthia Lummis (Wyo.) - signed the misconduct complaint.
Senator Blackburn has also demanded answers from Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile about their cooperation with DoJ subpoenas.
The FBI’s surveillance began in April 2022 as part of “Operation Arctic Frost,” a wide-ranging investigation into Trump allies.
The materials were later handed to Smith in November 2022 for use in his Washington, D.C. election interference case.
That probe led to Trump’s federal indictment on four bogus felony counts.
Senator Chuck Grassley (Iowa), chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, called the surveillance “arguably worse than Watergate.”
“What I’ve uncovered is disturbing and outrageous political conduct by the Biden FBI,” Grassley said.
He called the spying “an unconstitutional breach” that demands accountability.
Grassley also revealed that 92 Republican-linked individuals and organizations were targeted in the Arctic Frost probe.
Among them was Turning Point USA founder and conservative icon Charlie Kirk.
Records show that Rep. Scott Perry (Penn.) was tailed by FBI agents and had his phone seized.