During a high-stakes hearing of the Subcommittee on Federal Courts, Oversight, Agency Action, and Federal Rights, Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) dropped a series of nuclear revelations regarding the “Arctic Frost” investigation, a sweeping, clandestine operation by the Biden-era DOJ and FBI designed to spy on the political opposition.
The Gateway Pundit has been hammering this story since February, when we reported that Biden’s FBI secretly snatched the phone records of Kash Patel and Susie Wiles in 2022 and 2023 as part of deranged Special Counsel Jack Smith’s sham classified-documents probe into papers lawfully stored at Mar-a-Lago.
Joe Biden’s FBI wiretapped a privileged attorney-client call involving top Trump adviser Susie Wiles, without the consent of either party, and then attempted to bury the evidence.
Axios reporter Marc Caputo reports that the lawyer, who has not been publicly identified, denied the accusation that he approved the FBI recording.
The revelations were confirmed during the hearing titled “Arctic Frost: A Modern Watergate,” held by the Subcommittee on Federal Courts, Oversight, Agency Action, and Federal Rights.
Witnesses included:
- Will Chamberlain (Article III Project)
- Margot Cleveland (The Federalist)
- Christopher O’Leary (former FBI agent)
What they described was nothing short of chilling.
Cruz walked Cleveland through the scope of Special Counsel Jack Smith’s investigation, and the numbers alone are staggering:
- Nearly 200 subpoenas issued
- Over 400 Republican individuals and organizations targeted
- Some targets had no connection to January 6
- Others didn’t even exist at the time
Cruz asked about subpoenaing toll records of members of Congress. Cleveland confirmed it raises massive Speech and Debate Clause problems. When Jack Smith tried to force AT&T to cough up Ted Cruz’s own records, AT&T flat-out refused, saying it violated the Constitution. Smith backed down like a coward and never even tried to enforce it in court.
Cleveland made it crystal clear, Smith knew well what he was doing was illegal.
Cruz then turned to the First Amendment nightmare of seizing donor lists, internal communications, and organization records. Cleveland confirmed it directly violates freedom of association, citing the Supreme Court’s NAACP precedent.
Will Chamberlain, Senior Counsel at Article III Project, delivered the knockout punch. Asked what specific crimes the “Arctic Frost” dragnet actually uncovered, Chamberlain said: “I’m not aware of any crimes that were uncovered.”
He also confirmed that the victims including the senators, donors, organizations, private citizens, would probably never have known about this secret surveillance operation had Trump not won in 2024, thanks to nondisclosure orders and the records being buried in “prohibited access files” only the FBI Director could see.
Chamberlain didn’t mince words comparing it to Watergate: “If anything, it might even be greater. I mean, the scope of this in terms of the sheer number of people and organizations affected. And as I discussed, this brazen violation of attorney-client privilege, wiretapping a phone call between Susie Wiles and her lawyer. These are egregious offenses. And if Watergate was just about a single break-in, this is effectively compound that by 200.”
WATCH:
HOLY CRAP! Senator Cruz CONFIRMED that Biden’s FBI wiretapped Susie Wiles during a PRIVILEGED CALL with her lawyer without the consent of EITHER party.
To make it HORRENDOUSLY worse, they then tried to HIDE evidence of their actions by marking the file “prohibited.”
This… pic.twitter.com/8WIg9k9ak9
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) March 24, 2026
During the hearing, Senator Mike Lee zeroed in on one of the most disturbing elements of the entire scandal: the FBI’s internal classification of key evidence as a “prohibited file.”
Lee then walked through what may be the most damning allegation yet, the recording of a 2023 phone call between Susie Wiles and her attorney.
This was a privileged legal conversation, one of the most protected forms of communication under U.S. law.
Chamberlain explained the gravity:
“There’s two interests being invaded… it’s doubly invasive because it’s supposed to be a privileged conversation.”
Joe Biden’s FBI spied on privileged conversations between President Trump’s campaign manager and her lawyer.
They spied on members of Congress.
The Deep State can still spy on YOU. pic.twitter.com/LDzYHT7VWk
— Mike Lee (@SenMikeLee) March 24, 2026
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