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Lindsey Graham vows to sue over 'Arctic Frost' investigation targeting GOP lawmakers' phone records
By Taylor Penley
Published November 19, 2025
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., vowed to sue over the "Arctic Frost" investigation that targeted him and other prominent Republican lawmakers, telling Fox News' Sean Hannity he "isn't going to put up" with the injustice anymore.
"I think this was worse than Watergate, an effort to destroy President Trump, charge him with crimes that are just ridiculous, and come after people like me," Graham said Tuesday.
"I'm not going to put up with this crap anymore. I'm going to sue."
GOP SENATOR DEMANDS FBI REVEAL IF SURVEILLANCE WENT BEYOND JACK SMITH’S PHONE TRACKING
Then-special counsel Jack Smith delivers remarks on a recently unsealed indictment including four felony counts against President Donald Trump on Aug. 1, 2023 in Washington, D.C. (left); Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., stands during a news conference at the U.S. Capitol on June 20, 2024 in Washington, D.C. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images (left); Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images (right))
Former special counsel Jack Smith allegedly tracked the private communications and phone calls of nearly a dozen Republican lawmakers, including Graham, as part of his investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol riot, Fox News Digital learned last month.
Sens. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., Ron Johnson, R-Wis., Josh Hawley, R-Mo., Cynthia Lummis, R-Wyo., Bill Hagerty, R-Tenn., Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska, Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., and Rep. Mike Kelly, R-Pa., were all reportedly subjected to the tracking as well.
HAGERTY PRESSES VERIZON OVER FBI’S ACCESS TO HIS PHONE RECORDS DURING JACK SMITH PROBE
Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., arrives to a Senate Judiciary Committee business meeting at the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Feb. 13 in Washington, D.C. Blackburn and other prominent GOP lawmakers' phone records were probed in the "Arctic Frost" investigation. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
Graham criticized the timing of what many Republicans have called lawfare against President Donald Trump once he announced his 2024 presidential run.
"Three days later, Jack Smith is appointed special counsel in November 2022. By August of 2023, there are 91 felony charges against him [Trump] coming from New York, Washington and Atlanta. My phone records were seized as part of this. I am tired of this," he said.
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"Arctic Frost" was opened inside the FBI on April 13, 2022. Smith was appointed as special counsel to take over the probe in November 2022.
Graham previously unloaded on the investigation during a separate appearance on the Fox News Channel, insisting that Jack Smith's investigators need to "pay big" for the probe, while insisting the move was a violation of the separation of powers.
Fox News Digital reached out to the FBI for comment but did not receive an immediate reply.
Fox News Digital was previously unable to reach Smith for comment.
Fox News' Brooke Singman contributed to this report.
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