If there’s one man in Washington who’s earned his stripes — not through grandstanding, but through sheer, tireless investigative grit — it’s Sen. Chuck Grassley. While most of Capitol Hill stays focused on theater and talking points, Grassley continues to dig, unearth, and document what many others are too timid or compromised to confront. And once again, his work has brought to light something explosive — and no, the media isn’t giving it even a fraction of the attention it deserves.
This week, Grassley confirmed what had only been whispered in corners of D.C.: the FBI’s now-exposed Operation Arctic Frost was personally authorized at the very top. That’s right — Attorney General Merrick Garland, Deputy AG Lisa Monaco, and FBI Director Christopher Wray each signed off on this operation that spied on GOP lawmakers and conservative organizations using tactics that, frankly, mirror the worst abuses of surveillance seen in the post-9/11 era.
Just received this doc frm DOJ Proof that Biden Atty General Merrick Garland+ Deputy Atty General Lisa Monaco+ FBI Dir Chris Wray all PERSONALLY APPROVED opening Arctic Frost
This investigation unleashed unchecked govt power at the highest levels My oversight will continue pic.twitter.com/atuRnC8ara
— Chuck Grassley (@ChuckGrassley) October 23, 2025
Thanks to one journalist still willing to follow the facts — Catherine Herridge, who was disgracefully pushed out of CBS News — we now have a more detailed picture of what Arctic Frost really was. She dissected Grassley’s documents and found this stunning detail: the FBI used “open source media reporting” to justify surveillance efforts. Sound familiar? That’s the same playbook used to launder the Steele Dossier into the FISA system, fabricating the pretense for spying on Trump associates during the 2016 campaign.
But this isn’t ancient history. Arctic Frost wasn’t just a general surveillance net. It included the collection of phone metadata from sitting Republican lawmakers — time, location, call length. And as any intelligence professional will tell you, phone metadata can be more invasive than an actual wiretap. It paints a full behavioral map, revealing networks, relationships, patterns. It’s surveillance architecture at its most chilling — and it was used, in part, to build the basis for Special Counsel Jack Smith’s electors probe against Trump.
NEW: APPROVAL CAME FROM THE TOP
Biden administration AG Garland, his deputy Lisa Monaco and then Director Christopher Wray physically signed off on FBI probe codenamed ARCTIC FROST.
The records via @ChuckGrassley show authorization based on “limited detail and basis” including… pic.twitter.com/FdaaKzlwjL
— Catherine Herridge (@C__Herridge) October 23, 2025
The implications are staggering. That charges of election interference were built, at least in part, on intelligence gathered through this extralegal dragnet should rattle anyone who still believes in civil liberties — or the Constitution.
And then there’s the matter of John Brennan. Referred for criminal prosecution, the former CIA Director is finally facing accountability, years after peddling falsehoods about the Steele Dossier and its role in the Intelligence Community Assessment. What Grassley has done here — again — is connect the dots that too many are paid not to see.
These dirty cops deserve to face a criminal probe for this. This is the kind of shit that goes on in Beijing or Moscow and NOT in the U.S. They plant a story and then use a planted OPEN SOURCE story as a legal basis for a criminal probe. Disgusting!!
— JT (I AM CHARLIE KIRK NOW) (@JTfloridaNow) October 23, 2025
The question now isn’t whether something unlawful occurred. It’s whether the Justice Department — now possibly realigned under a Trump-led DOJ — will have the political will to prosecute its own. If Brennan is indicted, and the Arctic Frost documents are truly followed to their logical legal conclusions, we may finally be seeing the first real cracks in the weaponized shield of the intelligence bureaucracy.
