U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville says he’s among a group of Republican senators whose phone activity was monitored during a Biden-era Department of Justice investigation, according to an FBI briefing Monday on Capitol Hill.
Fox News reports that records reviewed by the Bureau show former Special Counsel Jack Smith’s team tracked the private communications and call records of nearly a dozen GOP lawmakers.
“This is the first we’ve heard of it. Obviously, I figured we’d be somehow breached by China or North Korea — but not by your own government,” Tuberville (R-Auburn) said in an interview with Larry Kudlow on Fox Business.
“This is all about Donald Trump. I’m an ally of Donald Trump. I love this country. The Democratic Party, the Biden administration, tried to destroy this country. They tried to keep in contact with their enemies, so to speak, which was people that love this country, such as me and the other Senators.”
“But this is outrageous. They told us our phone numbers were breached. But we do not know if any content was added in there. The investigation just started,” he said.
The FBI document at issue, dated September 2023, states that an agent on Smith’s team “conducted preliminary toll analysis” on numbers associated with Republican U.S. Senators.
That list included U.S. Senators Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina), Marsha Blackburn (R-Tennessee), Ron Johnson (R-Wisconsin), Josh Hawley (R-Missouri), Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyoming), Bill Hagerty (R-Tennessee), Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), and Tuberville.
In an interview with Steve Bannon on Monday afternoon, Tuberville described the Biden-era revelation a “damn shame.”
Grayson Everett is the editor in chief of Yellowhammer News. You can follow him on X @Grayson270.
