作者：贾娜·温特
2026年3月24日 上午10:02 UTC 更新于1小时前
配图：2026年1月23日，美国加利福尼亚州安大略市，联邦调查局局长卡什·帕特尔在新闻发布会上宣布抓获曾登上联邦调查局“十大通缉犯”名单的前加拿大奥运单板滑雪运动员瑞安·韦德（Ryan Wedding）。路透社/Mike Blake/资料图
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- 特别检察官杰克·史密斯向威瑞森（Verizon）发出两份大陪审团传票，要求提供大量记录
- 调查涉及电话、电子邮件和短信记录，以及用户名和IP地址
- 传票发出时正值对机密文件和干预选举调查期间
华盛顿，3月24日（路透社） – 根据路透社获得的两份大陪审团传票和保密令显示，2022年开始对卡什·帕特尔（Kash Patel）展开的特别检察官调查——当时他还是私人公民，现在已是联邦调查局局长——要求调取超过两年的电话记录、短信和财务信息。
特别检察官杰克·史密斯的团队向威瑞森通信公司（Verizon Communications，股票代码：VZ.N）发出传票，调查帕特尔的通讯记录，当时他们正在调查唐纳德·特朗普总统是否干预了2020年大选，以及是否在其海湖庄园（Mar-a-Lago）藏匿机密文件。路透社无法确定史密斯对帕特尔的调查性质，以及当时是否在调查任何不当行为指控。
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共和党参议员查克·格拉斯利（Charles Grassley）、罗恩·约翰逊（Ron Johnson）和特德·克鲁兹（Ted Cruz）在周二的小组委员会听证会（针对代号为“北极霜”的史密斯调查）前批准发布了关于帕特尔的新记录。
史密斯于2022年被任命为特别检察官。路透社此前报道称，史密斯的团队曾传唤帕特尔和白宫办公厅主任苏西·怀尔斯（Susie Wiles）在2024年特朗普竞选总统期间的电话记录，当时他们还是私人公民。
路透社查看的新文件显示，对帕特尔的调查比此前报道更为广泛。文件显示，除电话、在线用户名和短信外，史密斯及其团队还索要了邮寄和电子邮件地址、账单和IP地址以及银行账户信息。
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文件显示，这些请求包括发送和接收的通话及短信记录，但不包含通话或短信内容本身。还包括通话时长、会话时间以及与帕特尔账户相关的用户信息。
一份传票要求提供2021年1月1日至2023年11月23日的记录，另一份为2020年10月1日至2023年2月22日的时间段。
路透社无法确定对怀尔斯的调查是否比此前报道更广泛。
联邦调查局发言人本·威廉姆森（Ben Williamson）告诉路透社，这些记录显示史密斯和联邦调查局当时存在不当行为。
威廉姆森表示：“在过去领导层下，联邦调查局被武器化，美国民众现在才开始充分认识到这一点。”
史密斯的发言人未回应置评请求。他此前曾告诉国会，其调查人员担心可能存在妨碍司法公正的行为。他在1月告诉议员们，其办公室“遵循司法部政策，遵守法律要求，并根据事实和法律采取行动”。
国会民主党人此前为史密斯辩护，驳斥共和党人的批评，称他为调查特朗普及其同伙的不当行为指控而获取电话记录和其他证据是必要的，这并无不妥。调查人员即使是针对名人，在核实案件事实时寻求电话和其他记录也属常规操作。
在史密斯调查期间执掌联邦调查局的前局长克里斯托弗·雷（Christopher Wray）未回应置评请求。
美国治安法官詹姆斯·马佐内（James Mazzone）于2022年11月30日发布了一份保密令，在对帕特尔的调查中规定法庭
Exclusive: FBI investigation into Kash Patel was more extensive than previously reported
By Jana Winter
March 24, 2026 10:02 AM UTC Updated 1 hour ago
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FBI Director Kash Patel announces the apprehension of Ryan Wedding, a former Canadian Olympic snowboarder who was on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitive list, during a press conference in Ontario, California, U.S., January 23, 2026. REUTERS/Mike Blake/File Photo
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- Companies
- Two grand jury subpoenas issued by Special Counsel Jack Smith to Verizon requested extensive records
- The probe sought phone, email, and text records as well as usernames and IP addresses
- The subpoenas came during classified documents and elections interference investigations
WASHINGTON, March 24 (Reuters) – A special counsel investigation that began in 2022 of Kash Patel, who is now the FBI director but was then a private citizen, included demands for more than two years of phone records, text messages and financial information, according to two grand jury subpoenas and nondisclosure orders viewed by Reuters.
Special Counsel Jack Smith’s team issued subpoenas to Verizon Communications (VZ.N) for Patel’s communications at the time when they were investigating whether President Donald Trump had interfered with the 2020 election and had hidden classified documents at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort. Reuters could not determine the nature of Smith’s investigation of Patel and what allegations of wrongdoing, if any, were being probed at the time.
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The new records regarding Patel were authorized for release by Republican Senators Charles Grassley, Ron Johnson and Ted Cruz ahead of a subcommittee hearing Tuesday on the Smith investigation, which was code-named Arctic Frost.
Smith was appointed special counsel in 2022. Reuters previously reported that Smith’s team had subpoenaed the phone records of Patel and White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles while they were private citizens but involved in Trump’s campaign to reclaim the presidency in 2024.
The new documents viewed by Reuters show that the probe into Patel was more extensive than previously reported. In addition to phone, online user names, and text messages, Smith and his team sought mailing and email addresses, billing and IP addresses and bank account information, according to the documents.
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The requests included records of calls and texts sent and received but not the contents of those phone calls or messages themselves, the documents show. They also included records of session times and the duration of calls, as well as subscriber information associated with Patel’s accounts.
One subpoena requested records from January 1, 2021 to November 23, 2023. The other was for the time period of October 1, 2020, through February 22, 2023.
Reuters was unable to determine whether the investigation into Wiles was more extensive than previously reported.
FBI spokesman Ben Williamson told Reuters the records show improper actions by Smith and the FBI at the time.
“The FBI under prior leadership was weaponized in ways the American people are only now beginning to fully grasp,” Williamson said.
A spokesman for Smith did not respond to a request for comment. He previously told Congress that his investigators were concerned about possible obstruction of justice. He told lawmakers in January that his office “followed Justice Department policies, observed legal requirements and took actions based on the facts and the law.”
Democrats in Congress have defended Smith from previous GOP criticisms, saying he had acted appropriately in seeking phone records and other evidence they said was necessary to investigate allegations of wrongdoing by Trump and his associates. It is not unusual for investigators to seek phone and other records, even of prominent people, while seeking facts about a case.
Former FBI director Christopher Wray, who ran the bureau during Smith’s investigation, did not respond to a request for comment.
U.S. Magistrate Judge James Mazzone issued a nondisclosure order on November 30, 2022 in the probe of Patel which stated that the court had
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