Former Rep. Gohmert blasts Jack Smith for allegedly targeting his personal phone records in J6 probe
EXCLUSIVE: Former Rep. Louie Gohmert blasted ex-Special Counsel Jack Smith for allegedly targeting his personal phone records as part of his investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riots, telling...
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EXCLUSIVE: Former Rep. Louie Gohmert blasted ex-Special Counsel Jack Smith for allegedly targeting his personal phone records as part of his investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riots, telling Fox News Digital in an exclusive interview that his action "destroys the checks and balances that the founders counted on." Fox News Digital exclusively reported Thursday morning that Smith targeted then- House Speaker Kevin McCarthy' s personal, private phone records, as well as Gohmert's. JACK SMITH SOUGHT THEN-HOUSE SPEAKER MCCARTHY’S PRIVATE PHONE RECORDS IN J6 PROBE, FBI DOCS REVEAL Fox News Digital exclusively reviewed the document that FBI Director Kash Patel recently shared with Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley and Sen. Ron Johnson containing the explosive revelations. Grassley and Johnson have been leading a joint investigation into Smith’s "Arctic Frost" probe. According to the document, Smith, on Jan. 24, 2023, allegedly sought the "toll records for the personal cell phones of U.S. Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy (AT&T) and U.S. Representative Louie Gohmert (Verizon.)" The information was included as part of a "significant case notification" drafted by the FBI’s Criminal Investigative Division May 25, 2023. "It is astounding that Jack ‘Frost’ Smith went on this persecution," Gohmert told Fox News Digital Thursday. "Apparently, this guy has never read the Fourth Amendment because you have to describe with particularity what it is you’re going after — there should be probable cause, and they had no probable cause. They were going on a witch hunt." Smith had sought Gohmert’s personal cellphone records from November 2020 through the end of January 2021. "They don’t have any regard for the Fourth Amendment," he said. "It makes Watergate look like school yard folly." But Gohmert said it is the "principle." "It is the separation of powers that is the problem," Gohmert explained. "People and whistleblowers contacted me regularly from withi…