NASHVILLE, Tenn. – U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn sent letters to AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon demanding answers as to why these companies allowed President Joe Biden’s Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to allegedly track the private communications and phone calls of eight U.S. Senators, including Senator Blackburn. Earlier this week, President Trump’s Deputy Director of the FBI, Dan Bongino, briefed the Senators on these revelations.

Companies can challenge subpoenas by filing a motion to quash or by raising objections to the request. In the letters, Senator Blackburn probes these companies on who approved this targeted invasion of privacy, when these decisions were authorized, why these companies declined to move to quash these subpoenas, and what steps these companies took – if any – to protect the privacy of Members of Congress.

There Was No Known Criminal Predicate for Biden DOJ Subpoena of Senators’ Cell Phone Records

“I write today seeking answers regarding the egregious invasion of privacy that your company… inflicted upon eight United States Senators and one Member of Congress. On Monday evening, we first learned that the Biden Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) spied on duly elected members of Congress, specifically seeking and ultimately obtaining ‘tolling data’ from cell phones as part of its corrupt, politically motivated Arctic Frost investigation. As part of the Jack Smith investigation that was a weaponized witch hunt to target President Trump, the Biden Department of Justice issued subpoenas to your company in 2023 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. We have also learned that, to our knowledge, there was no criminal predicate for the Biden Department of Justice issuing subpoenas to obtain these cell phone records.”

Blackburn Demands Cell Phone Carriers Provide Transparency on Egregious Invasion of Privacy

“While Director Kash Patel and Attorney General Pam Bondi continue to investigate this matter and root out the bad actors at their agencies, one thing is abundantly clear: we need answers immediately as to why your company allowed this invasion of privacy to occur wholly unchallenged… Who at your company made the decision to approve this unprecedented, targeted invasion of privacy of eight United States Senators and one Member of Congress? Please provide the exact date on which this decision to spy on Republican federal officials was authorized. Please explain the rationale behind your company’s decision to decline to move to quash these subpoenas… As noted above, we are not aware of any criminal predicate under which the FBI sought to spy on Members of Congress and infringe upon our privacy. Can you confirm that there was no predicate behind these actions… We deserve transparency on this invasion of privacy, and I can assure you that accountability is coming.” 

Click here to read the letter to AT&T. 

Click here to read the letter to T-Mobile.

Click here to read the letter to Verizon.

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