Emails Show Smith Team Made Errors in Drafting Subpoena for GOP Senator’s Phone Records in J6 Case
Update: 2025-11-26
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Internal Justice Department emails released Tuesday by Senate Republicans appear to show special counsel Jack Smith team’s coordination with the agency's public integrity section in an error-prone effort to subpoena the phone records of Republican senators and a GOP congressman in their January 6-related case against then-former President Donald Trump.
The emails from 2023 are notable for what appears to be their the hand-in-glove approval by the DOJ’s public integrity section of the request by Smith’s team, as well as errors in the Smith team request — repeatedly mistaking one Republican senator (Tim Scott) for another one (Rick Scott) with the same last name as they pursued approval for the subpoenas.
The emails from 2023 are notable for what appears to be their the hand-in-glove approval by the DOJ’s public integrity section of the request by Smith’s team, as well as errors in the Smith team request — repeatedly mistaking one Republican senator (Tim Scott) for another one (Rick Scott) with the same last name as they pursued approval for the subpoenas.
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