Jack Smith Shredded the Constitution to Spy on Republican Congressmen, Then Repeatedly Lied About It Under Oath

Congressional speech, including phone calls and text messages, are protected against subpoenas by the Speech and Debate Clause.

There is a bullshit way around this. The DOJ will sometimes seize these messages anyway but they first go to a "Filter Team" to make sure that nothing in the messages is protected by the Speech and Debate Clause. If a message falls into that category, it's not passed on to prosecutors.

But Jack Smith said "YOLO" and just read all the messages he wanted to read, without any Filter Team clearing them first.

And of course, 90% of those he illegally, unconstitutionally spied on were Republican congressmen.

Newly released records reveal that Special Counsel Jack Smith's team bypassed mandatory protocols to secretly access the private text messages of 44 members of Congress during the probe into President Donald Trump, the Justice Department confirmed Tuesday.

The disclosure, confirmed by records released by the Senate Judiciary Committee, has become a major constitutional flashpoint.

As lawmakers confront the reality that their private communications were accessed without following established filter protocols, the inquiry is igniting a broader debate over the separation of powers between the executive branch and the legislative body.

"Communications from Members of Congress pertaining to their official legislative duties are protected from criminal prosecution under the Constitution's Speech or Debate Clause," the Senate Judiciary's press release said.

The Speech or Debate Clause of the U.S. Constitution (Article I, Section 6) serves as a check on executive power and is designed to prevent members of Congress from being "questioned in any other Place," ensuring they cannot be subjected to the scrutiny of the Justice Department or the judicial branch for their legislative acts.

Yet DOJ records released to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, reveal that former Special Counsel Jack Smith's team reviewed the texts of 44 members of Congress, including 40 Republicans and four Democrats, during the investigation into President Donald Trump.

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"This is a blatant abuse of power, and exactly what our Founders warned about," Senator Rand Paul, R-Ky., also wrote on X. Paul also called out Jack Smith, where, during a December 2025 congressional deposition when he was asked under oath whether his team had reviewed the content of text messages belonging to members of Congress, he answered, "No."

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While the Filter Team's purpose was to prevent investigators from the Special Counsel's Office and the FBI from accessing privileged materials among records obtained, evidence shows that investigators bypassed this, potentially infringing on constitutional guardrails, according to the release.

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The phones were associated with a long list of officials serving in the White House during President Trump's first term, including Trump himself, as well as Stephen Miller, Rudy Giuliani, Kellyanne Conway, Peter Navarro, the president's daughter Ivanka Trump, former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows and former Vice President Mike Pence.

Smith's investigative team downloaded and began reviewing the texts without waiting for the Filter Team's evaluation.

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Meanwhile, the scope of this investigative overreach has been igniting sharp backlash on Capitol Hill.

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Missouri Senator Josh Hawley also slammed the findings of the DOJ records, writing on X, "Joe Biden's DOJ not only tapped my phone; I just learned they ILLEGALLY obtained my texts with members of President Trump's administration," adding, "Everyone involved needs to be PROSECUTED."

Lawmakers are now calling for a full-scale investigation into the breach, decrying what Senator Ron Johnson described as the "Biden administration's weaponization of the Justice Department." At the core of their concerns is whether the government has prioritized its investigative reach over constitutional restraints.

David Strom adds that Smith has always been a notoriously partisan operator who could be counted on to break the law to advance the interests of the Democrat Party -- which is precisely why Merrick Garland broke the law to appoint him.

Jack Smith, the illegally appointed Special Prosecutor whom Biden's Justice Department sicced on Donald Trump, is a perjurer.

That should surprise nobody; for years now it has been obvious that he is a partisan hack with a burning desire to take down Donald Trump, which is why the Justice Department violated its own rules (eventually destroying their case) in order to appoint him. They knew they could count on him to break any rule, tell any lie, and cross every ethical boundary to get his man.

Learn to code. In a prison classroom.

The criminal Jack Smith perjured himself, telling Congress he had not read any messages. And he told this lie repeatedly.

Flashback: Jack Smith lied in a warrant to keep his spying secret, telling corrupt Judge Boasberg that Ted Cruz (among others) would shred evidence if the law were followed and they were alerted they were being illegally spied upon.

posted by Disinformation Expert Ace at 12:09 PM

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