{"id":14172,"date":"2025-10-07T16:03:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T16:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/sen-josh-hawley-falsely-says-fbi-tapped-senators-phones-during-jack-smith-probe\/"},"modified":"2025-10-07T16:03:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T16:03:09","slug":"sen-josh-hawley-falsely-says-fbi-tapped-senators-phones-during-jack-smith-probe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/sen-josh-hawley-falsely-says-fbi-tapped-senators-phones-during-jack-smith-probe\/","title":{"rendered":"Sen. Josh Hawley falsely says FBI &#8216;tapped&#8217; senators&#8217; phones during Jack Smith probe"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Sen. Josh Hawley falsely claimed Tuesday that newly disclosed records revealed that the FBI \u201ctapped\u201d the phones of eight sitting U.S. senators during special counsel Jack Smith\u2019s investigation of President Donald Trump\u2019s bid to subvert the 2020 election.<\/p>\n<p>Hawley was describing an FBI document, publicly released Monday by Senate Judiciary Chair Chuck Grassley, that referenced a \u201cpreliminary toll analysis\u201d of nine lawmakers. Grassley underscored that the records revealed a subset of calls made and received by those lawmakers and did not reveal the content of those calls \u2014 only the time and duration.<\/p>\n<p>Attorney General Pam Bondi, during her Tuesday testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, did not correct Hawley\u2019s characterization of the records. Bondi said she had spoken with FBI Director Kash Patel \u201cat length\u201d about the records and could not discuss the details \u201cfor very good reason.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s unclear why the FBI reviewed the phone records of the particular set of senators included on the list. Though some, like Hawley, were deeply engaged in efforts to block the certification of Joe Biden\u2019s win in the 2020 election, others appeared less involved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Josh Hawley falsely claimed Tuesday that newly disclosed records revealed that the FBI \u201ctapped\u201d the phones of eight sitting U.S. senators during special counsel Jack Smith\u2019s investigation of President Donald Trump\u2019s bid to subvert the 2020 election. Hawley was describing an FBI document, publicly released Monday by Senate Judiciary Chair Chuck Grassley, that referenced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}