Grassley Releases Smith's Subpoenas for Patel Phone Records

Documents released by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley on Tuesday reveal that former special counsel Jack Smith subpoenaed more than two years of phone records for Kash Patel, who served in the Trump administration and later became FBI director. The subpoenas, issued to Verizon, covered periods from October 2020 to February 2023 and sought toll records of calls and texts, including subscriber information, session times and durations, but not the content of communications. They also requested Patel's residential, mailing and email addresses, along with billing and IP details.

The requests were part of two federal investigations led by Smith into former President Donald Trump's actions following the 2020 election and his handling of classified documents at Mar-a-Lago. Smith, appointed special counsel in November 2022, resigned after Trump returned to office in January. Patel, who worked as chief of staff to the acting director of national intelligence from 2019 to 2021, had become a vocal supporter of Trump by the time the subpoenas were issued. He testified before a grand jury in the classified documents case under limited immunity and publicly claimed Trump...