- DOJ told Sen. Chuck Grassley that former special counsel Jack Smith’s team “secretly obtained” text messages from 44 lawmakers while probing Trump’s role in Jan. 6 and classified documents at Mar‑a‑Lago.
- Grassley and Sen. Ron Johnson say Smith’s team bypassed document‑filtering protocols to access those White House‑related messages, calling it a reckless abuse of DOJ processes.
- The communications reviewed included both Republicans and Democrats, prompting bipartisan outrage and renewed debate over politicization of federal investigations.
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