FBI Probed 160 Republicans Under ‘Arctic Frost’

More than 160 Republicans, including current Trump administration officials, may have been investigated by the FBI under former President Joe Biden, as part of the bureau’s sweeping Arctic Frost probe, documents show.

White House Deputy Chief of Staff Dan Scavino, US Pardon Attorney Ed Martin and White House trade adviser Peter Navarro are among the prominent GOP figures named in FBI files released by the House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday, detailing the massive scope of the Biden-era Justice Department’s investigation into allegations of 2020 election interference.

Many of the 198 pages of Arctic Frost documents released by the House Judiciary Committee are heavily redacted.

Several requests to “surreptitiously record” interview subjects are also detailed in the documents.
One internal email shows investigators sought to expense $16,600 in travel in June 2022 alone “to conduct more than 40 interviews, serve subpoenas and issue several cellular device search warrants.”

Wild accusations alleging that Ed Corrigan, the president of the Conservative Partnership Institute and a longtime GOP Senate aide, is “pro-Putin” and “wants to build infrastructure to train people for civil war” were revealed in another email that appears to have been sent to the FBI’s Washington Field Office from an agent in Seattle.

“Corrigan secretly controls the freedom caucus and has plans that are not good for the FBI,” the Seattle-based FBI agent wrote, attributing the information to a redacted source. “Corrigan hates the FBI, who he refers to as spooks.”

Smith also received metadata from the phones of eight Republican senators and a GOP House member that would have allowed the special counsel to see who they called or texted as part of the Arctic Frost investigation.