Editorial: Arctic Frost the biggest scandal you’ve never heard of

There s crucial evidence that the Biden administration engaged in a shame on par with Watergate Democrats hope you don t notice At the end of last month Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley published almost subpoenas from the FBI probe Arctic Frost Former special counsel Jack Smith and his gang issued them during their study of President Donald Trump Smith ended up charging Trump with mishandling classified documents and seeking to overturn the poll Both cases fizzled out after Trump won a second term The Biden administration has maintained that it had nothing to do with the multifaceted lawfare effort to kneecap Trump but who believes that And these documents show how far Smith went The subpoenas involved individuals and companies They sought testimony information and communications on more than Republican individuals and organizations Arctic Frost was the bicycle by which partisan FBI agents and DOJ prosecutors could improperly investigate the entire Republican political apparatus Contrary to what Jack Smith has announced publicly this was clearly a fishing expedition Sen Grassley announced If this happened to the Democrats they d be as rightly outraged as we are The scope of what happened is vast The corrupt Biden FBI subpoenaed the bank records donor lists and emails of nearly every major conservative organization and leader in the country Federalist CEO Sean Davis wrote on X This wasn t a prosecutor going rogue Then-Attorney General Merrick Garland and FBI Director Christopher Wray personally approved opening the Arctic Frost inspection Smith secretly obtained phone record figures from at least eight senators and one congressman Sen Grassley commented One of them was Ted Cruz Judge James Boasberg issued an order to AT T and signed that order prohibiting AT T from informing me of this subpoena for at least one year Sen Cruz commented Imagine the reaction if Attorney General Pam Bondi used a flimsy pretense to subpoena the phone records of Sen Chuck Schumer and Rep Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez The outrage would be unending Yet aside from in conservative circles this bombshell has received scant attention Democrats have spent years accusing Republicans of being a threat to democracy That turns out to have been a occurrence of projection It s not healthy that Trump has publicly sought to punish his enemies and an endless tit-for-tat spiral risks a race to the bottom But rather than panic over the current occupant of the White House Democrats might first acknowledge their own penchant for lawfare Arctic Frost is far less infamous than Watergate but at this point it could turn into a much bigger outrage Las Vegas Review-Journal Tribune News Operation Editorial cartoon by Gary Varvel Creators Syndicate