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If It's Worse Than Watergate, Why The Silence?

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by Tyler Durden

Wednesday, Oct 22, 2025 - 01:45 AM

 

Authored by Franke Miele via RealClearPolitics,

 

In a sense, it’s old news. In December 2021, CNN reported that the House’s select January 6 Committee had subpoenaed phone records of more than 100 people.

 

But that was mostly Trump officials, including White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows. No surprise there. After all, the January 6 Committee was empaneled for the specific purpose of turning President Trump into a criminal for supposedly aiding and abetting the Jan. 6, 2021, breach of the Capitol.

 

But when this story resurfaced earlier this month, there was something new, too. For one thing, the scope of the investigation was almost unbelievable – it turns out those subpoenaed phone records consisted of a staggering 30 million lines of phone data.

 

And when the select committee’s investigation went nowhere, one of the members – GOP malcontent Adam Kinzinger of Illinois – informed the FBI about the phone data in December 2023 when it was becoming apparent that former President Trump was the favorite to win the Republican nomination in 2024.

 

More revelatory than the size of the phone records hauled in by the J6 Committee was the news that the FBI had gone after these same records – and possibly more – in an effort to target Trump and his conservative allies. Not only did the agency have its eyes on Trump, it also went after nine Republican members of Congress – eight senators and a stray congressman, in an obvious effort to sweep up accomplices in the coup that never was.

 

Whether the FBI obtained the same phone records as the J6 Committee is unclear. Kinzinger’s tip may have been moot, because an FBI memo released by Sen. Chuck Grassley shows that by September 2023, the agency had already “conducted preliminary … analysis” on the call data of several members of Congress, including Lindsey Graham, Bill Hagerty, Ron Johnson and Marsha Blackburn.

 

According to CNN, “the FBI, as part of special counsel Jack Smith’s January 6 investigation, used court orders in 2023 to obtain the phone records of nine GOP lawmakers.” These were not actual phone calls or text messages, but rather information about who called or texted whom, and when.

 

Grassley posted the memo to his X account, with the message,

 

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/if-its-worse-watergate-why-silence