Subject: Re: Arctic Frost and abuse of power
"I've obtained through legally protected whistleblower disclosures," Grassley said. "197 subpoenas were issued by Jack Smith and his team. These subpoenas were issued to 34 individuals and 163 businesses, including financial institutions.
"The subpoena requested records and communications related to over 430 individual and organizations -- all of them appear to be aimed at Republicans," the Iowa Republican added, noting requests sent to the late conservative icon Charlie Kirk's Turning Point USA and the Republican Attorneys General Association.

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), one of the nine Republicans whose phone metadata was sought, said "Arctic Frost is Joe Biden's Watergate."

"Merrick Garland was a fundamentally corrupt attorney general. Jack Smith was a fundamentally corrupt prosecutor. This was a political enemies list from the beginning," he told reporters, brandishing the court order that demanded AT&T hand over his cell records to the feds.

The order was signed by US District Court Chief Judge James Boasberg and barred the cell carrier from letting Cruz know about the request "for at least one year," he said.

The Texas Republican and others called for Boasberg's impeachment in the House, with Cruz claiming the judge was "abusing his power" by asserting in the order there were "reasonable grounds to believe that such disclosure will result in destruction of or tampering with evidence, intimidation of potential witnesses and serious jeopardy to the investigation."

"We don't know that for a fact, but I feel confident that he concluded it's likely that Lindsey Graham would destroy evidence and Marsha Blackburn would destroy evidence, and Eric Schmitt would destroy evidence, and Chuck Grassley would destroy evidence," Cruz went on.

It's kinda unclear how Ted Cruz is supposed to hack into AT&T and destroy all his phone records.