Republican senator Marsha Blackburn (Tn.) is seeking accountability against disgraced prosecutor Jack Smith for spying on her and other members of Congress during the Biden regime's crackdown on President Trump.

In an interview with Just the News, Blackburn said she is suing Biden DOJ officials, including Smith, for violating free speech and privacy rights and the separation of powers under the Constitution.

Seeking accountability

As part of an FBI probe into the January 6th, 2021, Capitol unrest, Smith collected records from Blackburn and eight other GOP senators, as well as one House member.

Blackburn said the only apparent reason she and the other lawmakers were targeted was their support for Trump.

"When you look at what happened with us, it's the 1st and the 4th amendment that was violated with the eight senators, plus our Speech and Debate Clause, our separation of powers and the Stored Communications Act, all of those were violations,” she said.

“These guys just hated Donald Trump, and they hated us because we supported Donald Trump, and we were standing with Donald Trump.”

Targeting Trump

The phone records were collected as part of the FBI's Arctic Frost probe, which set the stage for Smith's sweeping indictment of Trump for "election interference."

Blackburn said her lawyers have determined that Smith's subpoena requests predated Trump's indictment in August 2023.

“One of the things that is so interesting on this is we thought that the wireless carriers received a subpoena in September (2023) for our records, but we found out that Verizon actually received that subpoena in May 2023. That was prior to the indictment of President Trump, which took place in August of 2023,” she said.

“We know that they pulled what is called the toll data, that is every call we either made or received, the duration of the call, the individual and the number that it was to and from, And then also the physical location where we were when that call was either made or received,” she added.

Smith defends surveillance

In a letter to Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Ia.) who exposed Smith's collection of lawmakers' cell phone records, Smith's lawyers argued the surveillance was "limited" and "entirely proper, lawful, and consistent with established Department of Justice policy."

At the same time, Smith confirmed Blackburn's theory that Republican lawmakers were targeted for their proximity to Trump.

"The subpoena's limited temporal range is consistent with a focused effort to confirm or refute reports by multiple news outlets that during and after the January 6 riots at the Capitol, President Trump and his surrogates attempted to call Senators to urge them to delay certification of the 2020 election results," the lawyers said.

No biggie?

The so-called "limited" toll data that Smith collected would have provided insight on the time and location of lawmakers' calls, as well as the people they were calling.

While Smith pretends this is just normal law enforcement stuff, this surveillance took place in a clear political context, as the Biden Justice Department sought to crack down on Trump and his MAGA movement and neutralize his 2024 campaign with criminal investigations.

“It just shows you how Jack Smith and Arctic frost, they were so out over their skis, and they were out to get President Donald Trump, and they wanted to convict him of conspiracy. And of course, when you look at what they were doing with us, they were probably looking for obstruction or co-conspirator charges," Blackburn said.

Some of the Republicans who had their privacy raided have called for Smith to lose his law license. That's the least that should happen to a prosecutor who abused his power in such an extraordinary way, and who has shown no remorse about his misconduct.