The January 6 Committee secretly collected phone data that just exposed Democrats’ real target

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More details continue to emerge about what happened behind closed doors during the January 6 witch hunt.

The truth is finally coming out about who Democrats were really after.

And the January 6 Committee secretly collected 30 million lines of phone data that just exposed Democrats’ real target.

Democrats conducted dragnet surveillance on Trump’s allies

The Biden-era FBI and Democrat-run January 6 Committee ran a massive surveillance operation that would make Nixon blush.

Congressional investigators vacuumed up 30 million lines of phone records tracking who conservatives talked to in the Trump White House.¹

Then-Representative Adam Kinzinger handed this enormous trove to the FBI in late 2023.²

He offered up the data as evidence right before the 2024 presidential election kicked off – no warrant required.

The FBI memo reveals Kinzinger told agents the phone data had been collected by Denver Riggleman.³

Riggleman left the Republican Party and later showed up helping Hunter Biden’s legal team try to discredit the laptop.

"Kinzinger noted that he did not conduct the analysis himself but that Riggleman had identified certain telephone connections between numbers identified as being associated with the White House and certain individuals," FBI agents wrote.⁴

Eight GOP Senators and dozens of Republican organizations targeted

Special Counsel Jack Smith and the Biden-era FBI collected private phone records of eight Republican Senators and one GOP House member.⁵

The FBI’s Arctic Frost investigation targeted U.S. Senators Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.), Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.), Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.), Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), and U.S. Representative Mike Kelly (R-Pa.).⁶

The investigation swept up 92 Republican-linked individuals and organizations.⁷

Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA made the target list.⁸

Since Kirk’s assassination on September 10, the revelation carries even greater weight for conservatives who see the targeting of his organization as part of a broader pattern of political persecution.

Republican Attorneys General Association, America First Policy Institute, Conservative Partnership Institute, and Save America PAC all ended up under surveillance.⁹

FBI Director Kash Patel recently uncovered the Kinzinger-Riggleman memo and it has garnered significant attention inside the bureau.¹⁰

The timing raised eyebrows – Kinzinger had already left Congress and the committee ended its probe a year earlier.¹¹

But the 2024 presidential election was heating up with primaries weeks away.

"Kinzinger indicated that Riggleman may have never received direction on what to do with the toll data, which included approximately 30 million lines of data," the FBI memo stated.¹²

Constitutional lawyers warn of civil rights violations

Mike Davis, a former top lawyer for the Senate Judiciary Committee, told Just the News the revelations could prompt legal challenges.¹³

"This episode will test the limits of the congressional immunity afforded by the Constitution’s Speech and Debate Clause and whether that affords protection to activity that constitutes a criminal conspiracy to violate Americans’ civil rights," Davis explained.¹⁴

Mike Howell of the conservative Oversight Project called out the abuse.

"The January 6th Committee was an absolute violation of civil rights that far exceeded anything it ever purported to be investigating," Howell stated.¹⁵

He added that "they abused their authority to engage in a political mapping exercise to surveil their political opponents."¹⁶

Congressional surveillance operates in a legal gray zone.

The Supreme Court set limits on congressional subpoenas in Trump v. Mazars, but only for presidential records where separation of powers applies.

Congress faces few external legal constraints when surveilling ordinary citizens or even its own members.

The Bill of Rights technically applies to congressional investigations, but the Supreme Court hasn’t addressed Fourth Amendment objections to congressional subpoenas since 1960.

Riggleman’s role reveals partisan coordination

Denver Riggleman ran the phone surveillance operation for the January 6 Committee.

His 2022 book The Breach detailed the "painstaking process" of analyzing thousands of phone numbers.¹⁷

"My files included information on thousands of sensitive texts, language for subpoenas and preservation requests, as well as technical plans and documents related to advanced analysis," Riggleman wrote.¹⁸

He bragged about finding "White House phone numbers" and mapping connections among conservative groups.¹⁹

After leaving the committee, Riggleman joined Hunter Biden’s legal team in July 2023.²⁰

He spent months "providing digital forensic analysis" to undercut investigations into Joe Biden’s son.²¹

Riggleman even defended the discredited "51 intelligence officials" letter claiming Hunter’s laptop was Russian disinformation.²²

The IRS had verified the laptop’s authenticity in late 2019 – nearly a year before the New York Post stories.²³

FBI hid surveillance records in restricted files

Senator Chuck Grassley revealed the surveillance documents were hidden in "Prohibited Access" files.²⁴

These files receive false negative search results on FBI databases.²⁵

That means when congressional investigators or courts request records, the system shows nothing exists.

"It allows for misconduct," Grassley explained about the file system.²⁶

Patel announced he "terminated employees, abolished the weaponized CR-15 squad, and initiated an ongoing investigation" after discovering the congressional surveillance.²⁷

The CR-15 squad was the FBI unit conducting political surveillance under Chris Wray’s leadership.

"This document shows the Biden FBI spied on 8 of my Republican Senate colleagues during its Arctic Frost investigation," Grassley stated.²⁸

"BIDEN FBI WEAPONIZATION = WORSE THAN WATERGATE."²⁹

January 6 Committee built database to monitor Republican infrastructure

The January 6 Committee wasn’t investigating a riot – they were building a database to monitor Republican political operations nationwide.

Thirty million lines of phone data means they mapped who called whom, when, how long, and from where across the entire conservative movement.

Sitting Senators ended up under surveillance alongside major conservative organizations and grassroots activists.

The timing reveals the real agenda – offering this data to the FBI right before the 2024 primaries had nothing to do with January 6.

This was about creating leverage against Trump and anyone connected to him.

They hid the evidence in restricted FBI files so Congress and courts couldn’t find it during oversight requests.

The Fourth Amendment supposedly protects against unreasonable searches.

But Congress operates in a legal no-man’s-land where constitutional protections barely apply to their surveillance powers.

The Supreme Court hasn’t addressed whether Congress can vacuum up millions of Americans’ phone records without warrants since 1960.

Meanwhile, Riggleman went from mapping conservative phone networks to defending the Biden family.

That’s coordination, not coincidence.

The pattern mirrors the Obama-era IRS targeting Tea Party groups.

Federal agencies under Democrat control systematically weaponized their powers against conservative organizations.

Trump supporters processing Charlie Kirk’s assassination now know his organization was on this target list.

The surveillance state wasn’t just monitoring Trump – they tracked everyone in the conservative movement, including the young people Kirk inspired through Turning Point USA.

Kash Patel fired the agents involved and abolished the unit responsible because the weaponization of federal law enforcement against political opponents can’t stand in a constitutional republic.

Every American should care regardless of party affiliation.

Congress secretly collected 30 million lines of phone data mapping an entire political movement.

Nobody is safe from surveillance when that’s considered acceptable.

The fact they tried to hide it in restricted files proves they knew it crossed constitutional lines.

The question now is whether anyone faces real accountability for violating the civil rights of millions of Americans.


¹ John Solomon and Jerry Dunleavy, "Congress collected 30 million lines of phone data in Trump J6 probe, raising civil liberty concerns," Just the News, October 14, 2025.

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