House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan (R-OH) says the Biden Justice Department secretly obtained his phone records for more than two years as part of an investigation called Operation Arctic Frost. Jordan told Newsmax that prosecutors subpoenaed Verizon for his call logs, message metadata, and location information covering January 2020 through April 2022, calling the surveillance “creepy” and politically motivated. The subpoena, issued early in the Arctic Frost probe and accompanied by a one-year gag order, also targeted three additional phone numbers whose owners have not been identified.
Jordan said the order went far beyond what was publicly understood about Arctic Frost, which was initially described as a narrow inquiry into “alternate electors” tied to the 2020 election. Instead, he argued, the probe expanded to include Trump campaign associates and Republican lawmakers. He added that prosecutors refused to say how many members of Congress were swept up. Analysts noted that the subpoena demanded one of the broadest sets of metadata ever known to be collected from a sitting lawmaker, including location and encryption information.
Republican allies framed the revelations as an abuse of government power. They argued the surveillance resembled political espionage rather than legitimate law enforcement. Jordan said the committee would pursue records and compel testimony from Justice Department officials, vowing to uncover who authorized the monitoring and why.