FBI and DOJ Coordinated with White House on Secretive ‘Arctic Frost’ Surveillance of Trump Associates

By Jerry Dunleavy | Just the News

Evidence continues to emerge showing the top levels of the Biden Administration involved in the investigations into once-and-future rival Donald Trump.

Members of the Biden White House and leaders at the Biden-era Justice Department and FBI were all involved in efforts linked to the launch of the Arctic Frost investigation which targeted then-former President Donald Trump and MAGA World over the events surrounding January 6, 2021.

Recently-declassified revelations related to the FBI’s “Arctic Frost” investigation chronicle the 2022 lawfare assault against then-former President Donald Trump and MAGA world, as criminal inquiries — which would soon lead to criminal charges — spun into high gear as Trump leaned toward running for president again.

New evidence shows that then-Attorney General Merrick Garland, then-Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco, and then-FBI Director Christopher Wray signed off on the launch of the Arctic Frost inquiry into Trump related to the Capitol riot. Unearthed emails also show that the Biden White House Counsel’s Office coordinated with an anti-Trump FBI agent to hand over phones which had belonged to Trump and former Vice President Mike Pence.

Highest levels of Biden Admin tied to Trump J6 investigation

Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, released a document this week from early April 2022 showing that Garland, Monaco, and Wray all signed off on the launch of the sweeping inquiry into Trump. The memo — initialized by Garland, Monaco, and Wray — was for the “Approval to Open a Certain Sensitive Investigative Matter [SIM] Investigation.”

“WFO [Washington Field Office] seeks to open this SIM full investigation based on evidence that presents specific and articulable facts that individuals, both known and unknown, engaged in a conspiracy to obstruct Congress’s certification of the Electoral College on January 6, 2020 [sic],” the launch document said.

The document approved by Garland, Monaco, and Wray contained an obvious error — apparently unnoticed by the trio and their staffs — given that the events in question were in early 2021, not early 2020.

Grassley, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, in April released “FBI emails provided by legally protected whistleblowers” which he said showed “officials in the Biden White House, including then-White House Deputy Counsel Jonathan Su, personally assisted the FBI in securing the government cell phones of President Trump and former Vice President Mike Pence.” The senator noted that “the cell phones were acquired before Trump was formally added as a subject of the investigation.”

The senator said the disclosures also included “further evidence anti-Trump FBI Assistant Special Agent in Charge Timothy Thibault played a central role in opening and advancing the Arctic Frost investigation, despite other agents’ concerns that the evidence only supported a limited preliminary investigation.”

Thibault, a former FBI Assistant Special Agent in Charge at the FBI’s Washington Field Office, retired from the bureau in 2022 amidst whistleblower allegations and after his anti-Trump social media postings were revealed.

An unearthed email from April 2022 showed Thibault approving the opening of Arctic Frost.

The emails showed that, in late February 2022, Thibault said that “I am working to get DOJ and FBIHQ to gain approval to open a case on the Trump campaign et al for conspiring to defraud the US Govt [Government] via the elector scheme. This case will be worked by CR15.”

Assistant U.S. Attorney John Crabb reached out to Su — who worked as a special counsel to President Barack Obama and as deputy White House counsel in the White House Counsel’s Office under President Joe Biden — in late April 2022 as Thibault and the FBI sought to obtain phones which had belonged to Trump and Pence.

Crabb asked Su, “Do you have a moment to discuss logistics for telephones?” Su responded, “Yes.” Su also said that “I can be the POC [point of contact] for the time being.”

The emails continued in early May 2022, as Crabb told Su (in emails where Thibault was carbon copied), “Would you coordinate with Tim Thibault (who’s copied on this email) about picking up the telephones.”

Su responded, “Thanks John. Tim, it is good to meet you, and please let me know what works for you in terms of timing the next couple of days.”

Thibault replied, “Good to meet you as well. I am in the process of facilitating the receipt of the two phones today … if this window is still acceptable for you? If so, would you please provide a contact number and instructions for two Special Agents to follow to allow for entry to the WH grounds?”

Thibault also sent an email to FBI supervisory special agent Blaire Toleman, saying, “It is anticipated WF [Washington Field Office] CR-15 case agents will be directed to receive two phones, previously assigned to former POTUS Trump and VPOTUS Pence from the White House Counsel’s Office today.”

Toleman emailed Su (in a message where Thibault was again copied) that special agents Michelle Ball and Jamie Garmin “will pick up the phones” and to “please let me know if you need anything additional from us.”

Su replied, “Will do and many thanks.”

The FBI public corruption unit in question — CR-15 — which had handled Arctic Frost was disbanded by FBI Director Kash Patel earlier this month.

“They tracked the communications of GOP Senators. They weaponized law enforcement against the American people. That era is over,” Patel said on X. “We fired those who acted unethically, dismantled the corrupt CR-15 squad, and launched an investigation. Transparency and accountability aren’t slogans, they’re promises kept.”

Grassley sent a letter to Smith on Friday shortly after the former special counsel offered to testify before his Senate committee.

The senator’s new letter told Smith to reveal details on any and all meetings he or his staff held with Biden White House officials and with Garland, Monaco, Wray, and former FBI Deputy Director Paul Abbate.

Grassley also asked Smith how many members of Congress he sought phone tolling information from and how many he obtained that information from, and also asked the former special counsel if he was “aware that anti-Trump FBI agents, such as Assistant Special Agent in Charge Thibault, played critical roles in opening and approving the elector case.”

Neither lawyers for Smith nor Thibault immediately responded to requests for comment sent over the weekend.

Weaponized FBI went after phone records of key GOP leaders

The recent revelation that the FBI snooped on the phone records of Republican members of Congress during its January 6 investigation is bringing greater scrutiny to Wray, during whose tenure the bureau effort occurred, and to Smith, who was leading the Biden Justice Department’s investigation into Trump.

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