Mr. President,
Today, I come to the floor to speak about the FBI and Arctic Frost. Arctic Frost was another political case against President Trump, and also against whistleblowers.
Through records that I have already made public, the investigation’s political origins are now firmly established.
The case’s [origins] are anti-Trump FBI agent Thibault and his merry band of partisans. A partisanship that should never be present in our FBI – but I’ll show how it was present.
Partisan FBI agents and Department of Justice prosecutors led the charges, and led the charges as a tag-team, causing political chaos to try and destroy President Trump.
Now, I have made these people’s names public in document productions.
And that’s the way it should be. We should let the American people know who threw our country into chaos to satisfy their very selfish political goals.
We need to expose the political conspiracy that surrounded President Trump.
They hurt our country through several different processes. We call these Crossfire Hurricane, Special Counsel Mueller’s Investigation of the Russia hoax and, finally, Jack Smith’s two cases against President Trump.
And now, added to this list is what I mentioned in my opening statement – Arctic Frost, which ultimately became one of Jack Smith’s cases against President Trump.
FBI Agent Thibault violated the FBI’s no self-approval rule.
Literally, there’s a rule on the books in the FBI called the No Self-Approval Rule.
That rule says that a supervisor isn’t supposed to create a case and then approve that case for themselves.
Now the records show, that Senator Johnson of Wisconsin and I’ve made public, which includes Thibault’s emails – prove he did exactly what the No Self-Approval Rule forbids.
His bad conduct also exposed the cultural rot within the FBI and the DOJ’s leadership. How, you might ask? Because all of them eagerly approved of Thibault’s case.
All those alleged layers of review on the 7th Floor of the FBI building turned out to be the Democratic National Committee’s echo chamber.
Our country’s suffered as a result and so have our government institutions.
And now, President Trump and the American people have an opportunity to see the details of the political conspiracy that tried to take President Trump down.
Moreover, I questioned then nominee-Todd Blanche about whether Jack Smith provided all these emails I’ve made public to Trump’s defense counsel.
Blanche said the Biden prosecutors did not provide all the emails.
Failing to provide these types of records and information to defense counsel prevents defense counsel from making a complete defense.
It prevents them from full and complete questioning of all the witnesses.
It’s pretty obvious, if the defense team knew that partisan FBI agents had opened the case against Trump in breach of FBI rules, they would’ve been able to raise those issues and have a really strong defense.
Now, talk about a miscarriage of justice. That’s a perfect example of people in the FBI doing a miscarriage of justice.
By the way, I haven’t heard a peep from my Democrat colleagues about Arctic Frost.
During Trump’s first term, then-Ranking Member Feinstein of California joined my investigation into alleged Russian collusion, which we found such a collusion did not occur.
No Democrats have asked me anything about Arctic Frost, even though I’ve shown them and the entire public internal FBI emails proving political rot in our top law enforcement agency.
If you’re afraid to follow the facts and to follow the evidence in this town, if you don’t ask questions, you’ll never have any credibility.
The silence of my Democratic colleagues and the partisan media speaks volumes. And the American people won’t long forget that.
And I’ll end on this note.
All these internal FBI records about Arctic Frost that I’ve made public. Well, I didn’t get them from this administration.
I got them from heroic whistleblowers. People in the bowels of bureaucracy that know something’s not right and they aren’t getting the attention of the people that supervise, they eventually end up coming to this senator.
Those whistleblowers have showed how the FBI and how the Department of Justice unfairly treated Trump and grasped at straws to build a case – any case – for their political gain.
So, as my investigative work continues, let me be sure to thank these brave whistleblowers who’ve helped this Senator expose this political rot within our top law enforcement institutions.
Exposure that’s necessary to bring to light that which must be fixed for the benefit of our country and reestablishing the credibility of our FBI.
I yield the floor.
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