Grassley presses FBI over Trump Arctic Frost probe name, calls change ‘anything but random’
FIRST ON FOX: Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley is demanding answers on the process of how the FBI determines code names for its investigations, after receiving records that show...
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FIRST ON FOX: Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley is demanding answers on the process of how the FBI determines code names for its investigations, after receiving records that show agents "renaming" the Arctic Frost investigation into President Donald Trump, with the senator calling the move "anything but random." Grassley penned a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel raising questions on the process, after Patel’s team transmitted records the committee requested pertaining to the FBI’s Arctic Frost probe into Trump and the 2020 election. JACK SMITH TARGETED THEN-HOUSE SPEAKER MCCARTHY’S PRIVATE PHONE RECORDS IN J6 PROBE, FBI DOCS REVEAL Documents revealed that the investigation was first named "Hyperbolic Frost," and later changed to "Arctic Frost." "In response to our document requests, your agencies produced a document that shows that edits were made to an early version of a draft Arctic Frost opening document," Grassley wrote. "This document has several handwritten edits, including the crossing out of the initial name of the investigation, ‘Hyperbolic Frost,’" and renaming it ‘Arctic Frost.’" Grassley said the document "calls into question the accuracy of the testimony" former FBI Director James Comey gave to him during a May 3, 2017, Senate Judiciary Committee hearing. "At this hearing, I asked ‘Was the Clinton investigation named Operation Midyear because it needed to be finished before the Democratic National Convention? If so, why the artificial deadline? If not, why was that the name?" Grassley shared. Grassley was referring to ‘Midyear Exam,’ which was the FBI’s code name for the bureau's investigation into Hillary Clinton’s private email server. Comey replied: "Certainly not because it had to be finished by a particular date." "There’s an art and a science to how we come up with codenames for cases," Comey said at the time. "They assure me it’s done randomly. Sometimes I see ones that make me smile, so I’m not s…