As part of his fervent effort to find grounds to prosecute President Donald Trump in 2023, then-Special Counsel Jack Smith monitored the phone calls and text messages of Trump’s current Chief of Staff Susie Wiles – sweeping up records of her calls with nearly two dozen lawyers in the process.
“BIG ANNOUNCEMENT: This morning, the White House Government Transparency Task Force released newly declassified documents exposing an FBI criminal investigation code-named Oxferd Comma,” John Solomon, Chairman of the White House Government Transparency Task Force, posted on X.com Monday.
Solomon, who has taken a leave of absence from his position as Editor-In-Chief of Just The News in order to lead the Task Force as an unpaid Special Government Employee, posted a link to download the newly declassified documents.
“The newly released memos show an intense focus on two constitutionally protected activities — Trump’s right to a legal defense and the normal activities of a presidential campaign,” Solomon explained Monday in a report co-authored by Just The News Investigative Reporter Steven Ricards:
“FBI investigators were tracing Wiles’ phone calls and text messages with at least 21 lawyers affiliated with Trump, numerous campaign staff, political advisors, and at least five journalists from at least February to May 2023.”
At the time, Wiles was managing Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign. Her phone calls were secretly tracked using a mechanism know as pen register and trap and trace (PR/TT):
“FBI specifically targeted Wiles’ communication records to understand who she was in contact with before and after her interview with FBI agents on April 7, 2023, in Jacksonville, Florida. ‘On 10 April 2023, WFO [redacted] reviewed WILES's telephonic activity to determine contacts of interest on the date of her FBI interview,’ one memo reads.”
Through their PR/TT tracking, FBI employees were able to discover and report when Wiles engaged in a phone conversation, to whom she spoke, and how long the talk lasted. Examples of FBI employees’ reports suggest that nothing was found that Smith could use against Trump.
Last week, Smith was called before Congress as part of an investigation into whistleblowers’ revelations of his legally dubious, far-reaching surveillance efforts and motivation for targeting a presidential candidate.
