Former congressman Adam Kinzinger of Illinois admitted to contacting the FBI with an offer to share cellphone data that was collected by the January 6th committee as the Biden-era lawfare campaign against President Trump was in full swing.

Kinzinger was one of only two anti-Trump Republicans to serve on Nancy Pelosi's (D-Ca.) partisan January 6th committee, which led a sprawling and intrusive investigation into President Trump and his MAGA movement during the Biden presidency.

According to a newly unveiled FBI memo that was reported on by Just the News, Kinzinger approached the bureau with some 30 million lines of cell phone data that had been collected by the January 6th committee.

Kinzinger responds

At the time of Kinzinger's FBI outreach in December 2023, he had already left Congress, and Trump was campaigning for the White House in the teeth of a Justice Department crackdown led by Biden prosecutor Jack Smith.

In a Substack post Wednesday, Kinzinger dismissed the report from Just the News as a nothingburger, since it had been previously known that Congress obtained cellphone records with subpoenas.

While the subpoenas were known about, Kinzinger's apparent attempt to coordinate with federal investigators, while Trump was actively campaigning for the presidency no less, is new information.

“In 2021, the Jan. 6 Select Committee subpoenaed telecom and tech companies for phone metadata – the basic call logs that show who called whom, when, and for how long. No wiretaps. No recordings. Just routine investigative work,” Kinzinger wrote.

"In 2023, I had a brief discussion with members of the FBI reminding them of this data if they needed it in their investigation. Regardless, they didn’t seem interested and that was that," he wrote.

Lawfare

As reported by Just The News, Kinzinger informed the FBI that 30 million lines of data had been collected by January 6th committee staffer and former GOP congressman Denver Riggleman, who boasted about the surveillance in a book, The Breach.

However, Riggleman wrote in the book that 18 million lines of cell data had been collected, not the 30 million that Kinzinger described to the FBI.

“Kinzinger noted that he (Kinzinger) did not conduct the analysis himself but that Riggleman had identified certain telephone connections between numbers identified as being associated with the White House and certain individuals,” the FBI's memo says.

While Kinzinger describes the surveillance as "routine," there was nothing ordinary about the Biden-era efforts to investigate Trump and his allies.

Indeed, it was recently confirmed that Jack Smith spied on nine sitting Republican lawmakers as part of an FBI investigation that became a springboard for Smith's failed election case against then-candidate Trump.

House Republicans are demanding that Smith testify and provide records concerning his "partisan and politically motivated prosecutions” into Trump.