The Deep State's assault on Republican lawmakers has reached a shocking new low, as Senate testimony revealed Tuesday that major phone carriers readily handed over private communications records of GOP members of Congress to former special counsel Jack Smith's partisan witch hunt.
During a heated Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing, lawmakers grilled phone company representatives over their compliance with subpoenas targeting Republican legislators during Smith's so-called "Arctic Frost" investigation—yet another weaponized probe designed to harass Trump allies and conservative voices in Congress.
Subcommittee Chair Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), whose own personal records were swept up in the dragnet, made it crystal clear that this hearing was about preventing future abuses of power by rogue prosecutors and their corporate accomplices.
Constitutional Crisis Ignored by Corporate America
What's truly outrageous here is how easily these phone companies rolled over for the Biden administration's legal attack dogs. Where was their concern for constitutional separation of powers? Where was their respect for the privacy of elected representatives?
This is the same playbook we've seen before—unelected bureaucrats and partisan prosecutors using corporate compliance departments as weapons against conservatives. These companies wouldn't hesitate to fight government requests if they targeted liberal Democrats, but when it comes to Republicans? They hand over the records without a fight.
"This hearing was aimed at ensuring this kind of constitutional overreach never happens again," Blackburn told The Daily Wire.
The senator's words should send chills down every American's spine. If deep state operatives can target sitting members of Congress with fishing expeditions into their private communications, what protection do ordinary citizens have?
Now that President Trump is back in the White House and Republicans control the government, it's time for real accountability. These phone carriers need to explain why they became willing accomplices in the Democratic Party's war on political opposition.
The American people deserve to know: will these companies stand with the Constitution, or will they continue serving as arms of the administrative state whenever the next partisan prosecutor comes knocking?