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参议员格拉斯利和约翰逊表示，调查人员在“北极霜冻行动”调查中绕过了自身的过滤审查程序
作者：查尔斯·克莱茨，福克斯新闻
发布时间：2026年7月14日 美国东部时间下午6:17
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前特别检察官杰克·史密斯对唐纳德·特朗普总统的调查获取了近50名国会议员的短信内容，绕过了 required 审查程序，一名受害者称这直接违反了宪法。
参议院司法委员会主席、爱荷华州共和党人查尔斯·格拉斯利表示，这一情况进一步证明史密斯的调查是一场“脱缰列车”式的权力滥用，这位资深政坛人士、参议院调查小组委员会主席、威斯康星州共和党人罗恩·约翰逊于周二晚间联合发布了相关文件。
格拉斯利和约翰逊的调查结果来自对“北极霜冻行动”的全面调查，该行动是史密斯调查特朗普涉嫌腐败和选举不当行为的代号，参议院共和党高层称此次行动“比水门事件还糟糕”。
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史密斯的团队以绕过程序的方式获取并审查了44名国会议员的短信内容。当时应组建一支“过滤团队”审查案件中的数百万份文件，并应首先确定此类短信是否相关，或是否可能违反法律或道德准则。
纽约州共和党议员埃莉斯·斯特凡尼克是短信被获取的议员之一，她周二表示，此类审查明显违反了宪法的言论及辩论条款，该条款保护议员在立法行为方面，除国会山外“任何其他场所”免受质询。
随着技术进步，法院历来将内部沟通纳入该条款保护范围。
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斯特凡尼克在一份声明中表示，新记录证明史密斯的团队“非法且违宪地获取了我和其他43名国会议员的私人短信，明显违反了宪法”。
她表示，她长期以来一直怀疑存在“对国会议员的违宪监视”。
这些记录由特朗普政府司法部提供给格拉斯利和约翰逊，两位主席表示，这些记录表明史密斯的团队“绕过了自身的过滤审查程序”。他们在一份声明中表示，该程序还旨在保护律师-客户保密特权。
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前特别检察官杰克·史密斯2026年1月22日在华盛顿特区国会山雷伯恩众议院办公楼参加众议院司法委员会听证会前宣誓效忠国旗。（阿尔·德拉戈/盖蒂图片社）
这一消息也让史密斯此前的部分宣誓作证证词陷入复杂境地，其中一段证词中，他在被国会法律顾问问及他要求议员提供的记录是否包括短信时回答“没有”。
约翰逊称这种情况是拜登时代行政部门“武器化”的“令人发指的例子”。
“杰克·史密斯对特朗普总统的刑事调查是一列没有刹车的脱缰列车，”格拉斯利周二补充道。
“根据提供给我和约翰逊参议员的信息，拜登司法部和联邦调查局的调查人员显然无视了自己的常规调查程序，获取并审查了我以及数十名共和党和民主党同事的工作相关短信，而这些人员并不在政府调查的范围之内。”
格拉斯利补充道，他希望被纳入这份两党短信范围的民主党人最终能抛弃党派偏见，认识到史密斯所谓的违规行为的严重性。
他还表示，他计划再次传唤史密斯到国会“追究他的责任”。
在被纳入短信审查的44名议员中，有数名民主党人，包括洛杉矶市长凯伦·巴斯、新泽西州民主党众议员乔希·戈特海默、新泽西州民主党参议员科里·布克，以及众议院军事委员会首席民主党人、华盛顿州众议员亚当·史密斯。
格拉斯利、约翰逊和斯特凡尼克也在其中，还有迈克·李（犹他州共和党参议员）、乔希·霍利（密苏里州共和党参议员）、丹·沙利文（阿拉斯加州共和党参议员）、兰德·保罗（肯塔基州共和党参议员）、前参议院共和党会议主席拉马尔·亚历山大（田纳西州共和党）以及已故的林赛·格雷厄姆（南卡罗来纳州共和党）等高层人物。
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前众议院情报委员会主席、加利福尼亚州共和党人德文·努涅斯是受害者之一，现任众议院司法委员会主席、俄亥俄州共和党人吉姆·乔丹，宾夕法尼亚州众议院自由核心小组成员斯科特·佩里，纽约州环境保护署署长李·泽尔丁，佐治亚州退伍军人事务部长道格·柯林斯，以及著名的特朗普批评者、肯塔基州众议员托马斯·马西也在其中。
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多名议员在格拉斯利公布调查结果后迅速对此发表评论，包括霍利，他呼吁“所有涉案人员[都应]被起诉”。
“乔·拜登的司法部不仅监听了我的电话；我刚刚得知他们非法获取了我与特朗普总统政府成员之间的短信，”这位密苏里州议员愤怒地说道。
保罗称这些指控是“赤裸裸的权力滥用，正是我们的建国先贤所警告的”，同时提及史密斯此前在宣誓下的否认。
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Biden special counsel’s ‘runaway train’ scooped up sensitive lawmaker info: ‘Abuse of power’
2026-07-14T18:17:25-04:00 / Fox News
Sens Grassley and Johnson say investigators circumvented their own filter review process in the Operation Arctic Frost probe
By Charles Creitz, Fox News
Published July 14, 2026 6:17pm EDT
Fox News chief congressional correspondent Chad Pergram reports on a House hearing into former special counsel Jack Smith allegedly targeting Republican phone records during his investigation into the 2020 election.
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Former special counsel Jack Smith’s investigation into President Donald Trump swept up text messages from nearly 50 members of Congress, bypassing a required review process in what one victim alleged is a direct constitutional violation.
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, said the situation is more proof Smith’s probe was a “runaway train” of abuses of power, and the elder statesman and Senate Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Ron Johnson, R-Wis., jointly released their filings Tuesday evening.
Grassley and Johnson’s findings were from a full-scale probe of Operation Arctic Frost, the code name for Smith’s endeavor to investigate Trump for alleged corruption and election malfeasance, an operation top Senate Republicans call “worse than Watergate.”
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Jack Smith, former U.S. special counsel, arrives for a closed-door deposition before the House Judiciary Committee in Washington, D.C., Dec. 17, 2025.(Getty Images)
Forty-four members of Congress had the contents of their text messages obtained and reviewed by Smith’s team in a way that bypassed protocol. A “filter team” was tasked with reviewing millions of documents in the case and should have had first crack at determining whether such messages were relevant or potentially violated statute or ethics.
Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., one of the lawmakers whose texts were swept up in this way, said Tuesday such reviews amounted to clear violations of the Constitution’s speech and debate clause that protects lawmakers from being questioned in “any other place” than the Capitol for legislative acts.
Internal communications have been historically included in that clause in the courts as technology has advanced.
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Stefanik said in a statement that the new records prove Smith’s team “unlawfully and unconstitutionally accessed my private text messages, along with 43 other Members of Congress, in clear violation of the Constitution.”
She said she long suspected there had been “unconstitutional spy[ing] on members of Congress.”
The records were provided by the Trump Justice Department to Grassley and Johnson, which the chairmen said indicated Smith’s team had “circumvented its own filter review process.” The process is additionally meant to protect attorney-client privilege, they said in a statement.
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The news also complicated some of Smith’s prior depositions under oath, including an excerpt in which he answered “no” to a question from a congressional counsel whether records he requested from congresspeople included text messages.
Johnson called the situation a “grotesque example” of Biden-era “weaponization” of the executive branch.
“Jack Smith’s criminal investigation of President Trump was a runaway train that had no brakes,” Grassley added Tuesday.
“Based on the information that’s been produced to me and Senator Johnson, Biden DOJ and FBI investigators apparently ignored their own routine investigative protocols to obtain and review work-related messages from me and dozens of my Republican and Democrat colleagues who were outside the scope of the government’s investigation.”
Grassley added that he hopes Democrats caught up in the otherwise bipartisan text tranche will finally discard their partisanship and recognize the severity of the alleged violations by Smith.
He also indicated he planned to recall Smith before Congress to “hold him accountable.”
Of the 44 members swept up in the text reviews, several were Democrats, including Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, Rep. Josh Gottheimer, D-N.J., Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., and the top Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee, Rep. Adam Smith of Washington.
Grassley, Johnson and Stefanik were also swept up in the situation, along with top figures like senators Mike Lee, R-Utah; Josh Hawley, R-Mo.; Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska; Rand Paul, R-Ky., former Senate Republican Conference Chairman Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn.; and the late Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.
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Former House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes, R-Calif., was one of the victims, along with current House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, as well as House Freedom Caucus member Scott Perry of Pennsylvania, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin of New York, Veterans Affairs Secretary Doug Collins of Georgi, and prominent Trump critic Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky.
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Several lawmakers sounded off on the news soon after Grassley announced his findings, including Hawley, who called for “everyone involved [to] be prosecuted.”
“Joe Biden’s DOJ not only tapped my phone; I just learned they illegally obtained my texts with members of President Trump’s administration,” the Missourian fumed.
Paul called the allegations a “blatant abuse of power and exactly what our Founders warned about,” while citing Smith’s past denial under oath.
Fox News Digital reached out to a representative for Smith for comment.
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