New names emerge in Jack Smith's wide-ranging bid for GOP lawmakers’ phone records, unearthed emails show
Equal justice apparently isn't equal anymore.
FIRST ON FOX: Internal Department of Justice emails obtained by Fox News Digital show prosecutors working for special counsel Jack Smith sought phone records in 2023 for a wide-ranging group of Republican lawmakers, including newly revealed names such as a current Trump administration official.
The email exchanges between prosecutors beginning Jan. 9, 2023, show Smith’s team mapped out a web of House and Senate lawmakers who interacted with key people in Smith's probe into the 2020 election, including figures like President Donald Trump's former chief of staff Mark Meadows and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who led many of Trump's unsuccessful legal challenges to the election results.
New names within the emails obtained by Fox News Digital include Rep. Brian Babin (R-Texas), Rep. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.) and former Rep. Lee Zeldin, who now leads the Environmental Protection Agency.
"I’d like to seek [the Public Integrity Section’s] concurrence to get phone tolls for several MOCs who had contact with pertinent parties in our investigation," wrote DOJ lawyer Timothy Duree. "I’ll keep the timeframe tight—probably October 1, 2020, to January 31, 2021."
JACK SMITH DEFENDS SUBPOENAING REPUBLICAN SENATORS’ PHONE RECORDS: ‘ENTIRELY PROPER’
Duree produced 16 names and said he wanted to discuss whether to "subpoena these all at once." The list included Reps. Babin and Biggs and now former Reps. Mo Brooks, Matt Gaetz, Paul Gosar, Louie Gohmert, Zeldin and Jody Hice. The list also included Gohmert’s chief of staff Connie Hair, and seven senators whose names were previously revealed through public disclosures, such as Sens. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn.
Public disclosures previously showed that some of the 16 members' phone records were subpoenaed, but the new emails with new names, including Babin, Biggs and Zeldin, do not make clear if Smith ultimately executed subpoenas for their phone records.
Raymond Hulser, a prosecutor on Smith’s team, responded at one point in the January 2023 email chain by acknowledging the scale of his request.
"And please there’s no hurry this morning, [Duree]" Hulser wrote. "It just occurred to me that before we tell Main we are going to fire off subpoenas for so many members tolls I should make sure Jack’s aware."
DEM REP DEFENDS DOJ OBTAINING GOP SENATOR CALL RECORDS IN 2023: 'YOU WEREN'T SURVEILLED'
The subpoenas for lawmakers' records have been a top source of scrutiny as House and Senate Judiciary Committee members continue to investigate Smith's work. Smith has stood by them, saying they were "entirely …
Equal justice apparently isn't equal anymore.
FIRST ON FOX: Internal Department of Justice emails obtained by Fox News Digital show prosecutors working for special counsel Jack Smith sought phone records in 2023 for a wide-ranging group of Republican lawmakers, including newly revealed names such as a current Trump administration official.
The email exchanges between prosecutors beginning Jan. 9, 2023, show Smith’s team mapped out a web of House and Senate lawmakers who interacted with key people in Smith's probe into the 2020 election, including figures like President Donald Trump's former chief of staff Mark Meadows and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who led many of Trump's unsuccessful legal challenges to the election results.
New names within the emails obtained by Fox News Digital include Rep. Brian Babin (R-Texas), Rep. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.) and former Rep. Lee Zeldin, who now leads the Environmental Protection Agency.
"I’d like to seek [the Public Integrity Section’s] concurrence to get phone tolls for several MOCs who had contact with pertinent parties in our investigation," wrote DOJ lawyer Timothy Duree. "I’ll keep the timeframe tight—probably October 1, 2020, to January 31, 2021."
JACK SMITH DEFENDS SUBPOENAING REPUBLICAN SENATORS’ PHONE RECORDS: ‘ENTIRELY PROPER’
Duree produced 16 names and said he wanted to discuss whether to "subpoena these all at once." The list included Reps. Babin and Biggs and now former Reps. Mo Brooks, Matt Gaetz, Paul Gosar, Louie Gohmert, Zeldin and Jody Hice. The list also included Gohmert’s chief of staff Connie Hair, and seven senators whose names were previously revealed through public disclosures, such as Sens. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn.
Public disclosures previously showed that some of the 16 members' phone records were subpoenaed, but the new emails with new names, including Babin, Biggs and Zeldin, do not make clear if Smith ultimately executed subpoenas for their phone records.
Raymond Hulser, a prosecutor on Smith’s team, responded at one point in the January 2023 email chain by acknowledging the scale of his request.
"And please there’s no hurry this morning, [Duree]" Hulser wrote. "It just occurred to me that before we tell Main we are going to fire off subpoenas for so many members tolls I should make sure Jack’s aware."
DEM REP DEFENDS DOJ OBTAINING GOP SENATOR CALL RECORDS IN 2023: 'YOU WEREN'T SURVEILLED'
The subpoenas for lawmakers' records have been a top source of scrutiny as House and Senate Judiciary Committee members continue to investigate Smith's work. Smith has stood by them, saying they were "entirely …
New names emerge in Jack Smith's wide-ranging bid for GOP lawmakers’ phone records, unearthed emails show
Equal justice apparently isn't equal anymore.
FIRST ON FOX: Internal Department of Justice emails obtained by Fox News Digital show prosecutors working for special counsel Jack Smith sought phone records in 2023 for a wide-ranging group of Republican lawmakers, including newly revealed names such as a current Trump administration official.
The email exchanges between prosecutors beginning Jan. 9, 2023, show Smith’s team mapped out a web of House and Senate lawmakers who interacted with key people in Smith's probe into the 2020 election, including figures like President Donald Trump's former chief of staff Mark Meadows and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who led many of Trump's unsuccessful legal challenges to the election results.
New names within the emails obtained by Fox News Digital include Rep. Brian Babin (R-Texas), Rep. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.) and former Rep. Lee Zeldin, who now leads the Environmental Protection Agency.
"I’d like to seek [the Public Integrity Section’s] concurrence to get phone tolls for several MOCs who had contact with pertinent parties in our investigation," wrote DOJ lawyer Timothy Duree. "I’ll keep the timeframe tight—probably October 1, 2020, to January 31, 2021."
JACK SMITH DEFENDS SUBPOENAING REPUBLICAN SENATORS’ PHONE RECORDS: ‘ENTIRELY PROPER’
Duree produced 16 names and said he wanted to discuss whether to "subpoena these all at once." The list included Reps. Babin and Biggs and now former Reps. Mo Brooks, Matt Gaetz, Paul Gosar, Louie Gohmert, Zeldin and Jody Hice. The list also included Gohmert’s chief of staff Connie Hair, and seven senators whose names were previously revealed through public disclosures, such as Sens. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn.
Public disclosures previously showed that some of the 16 members' phone records were subpoenaed, but the new emails with new names, including Babin, Biggs and Zeldin, do not make clear if Smith ultimately executed subpoenas for their phone records.
Raymond Hulser, a prosecutor on Smith’s team, responded at one point in the January 2023 email chain by acknowledging the scale of his request.
"And please there’s no hurry this morning, [Duree]" Hulser wrote. "It just occurred to me that before we tell Main we are going to fire off subpoenas for so many members tolls I should make sure Jack’s aware."
DEM REP DEFENDS DOJ OBTAINING GOP SENATOR CALL RECORDS IN 2023: 'YOU WEREN'T SURVEILLED'
The subpoenas for lawmakers' records have been a top source of scrutiny as House and Senate Judiciary Committee members continue to investigate Smith's work. Smith has stood by them, saying they were "entirely …
