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October 29, 2025 – The J6 Committee’s Liz Cheney and Bennie Thompson colluded with Jack Smith’s investigation; spying on 400+ Republicans

Two newly released congressional letters confirm years-long reporting that the anti-Trump Jan. 6 committee had quietly colluded with Special Counsel Jack Smith’s investigation into President Donald Trump.

The letters, from Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., and disgraced former Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., reveal the lawmakers’ rush to hand over evidence before Republicans took control of Congress in 2023.

In those exchanges, they produced at least 16 interviews, deposition transcripts, exhibits, phone numbers and spreadsheets as part of their investigation into the events of Jan. 6, 2021.

One letter, dated Dec. 5, 2022, shows Thompson and Cheney informing Smith that while the body was concluding its work, they wanted to make the evidence they gathered “available to the Department of Justice.”

In that letter, the anti-Trump politicians told Smith he would receive “16 transcripts of interviews and depositions taken by” the committee, including “exhibits associated with those transcripts.” They even promised to facilitate “additional evidence as soon as possible.”

Just four days later, Thompson and Cheney wrote again to Smith, announcing the production of documents obtained from John Eastman and text messages from Mark Meadows, then Trump’s White House chief of staff.

“Along with the latter, we are producing a staff-created spreadsheet of the Meadows texts that contain additional information from privilege logs that Mr. Meadows provided to the Select Committee,” they added.

Even after those documents, they vowed to produce more materials to Smith “on a rolling basis.”

Now, the never-before-seen letters confirm what many suspected: the controversial committee worked “hand-in-hand” with Smith, the House Judiciary Committee said Tuesday.

Smith was appointed by Attorney General Merrick Garland to target Trump after the 2020 election. Smith later used those materials to indict Trump, first over a document dispute between Trump and the Biden-led National Archives, and later over his objections to the certification of the 2020 election results.

The origins of that collusion trace back to the Jan. 6 committee itself, which was created in 2022 by then–Speaker Nancy Pelosi and excluded pro-Trump lawmakers.

A new panel led by Rep. Barry Loudermilk, R-Ga., is investigating the 2022 committee’s actions, including allegedly criminal behavior, after accusations it deleted files, engaged in partisan activity and covered up misconduct.

Tellingly, both Cheney and Thompson received preemptive pardons from President Joe Biden for any wrongdoing committed during the congressional investigation.

Read the 2022 letters below:

(Zero Hedge, 10/29/2025) (Archive)

Former special counsel Jack Smith issued nearly 200 subpoenas as part of the FBI’s sweeping Arctic Frost investigation into the 2020 election, targeting hundreds of Republicans in what GOP lawmakers now call one of the most politically intrusive spying expeditions in modern history.

The disclosures, provided by a whistleblower to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and released Wednesday, reveal that 197 subpoenas were sent to 34 individuals and 163 businesses. Those demands sought testimony, communications, and records connected to at least 430 Republican individuals and entities, including donor analytics, internal strategy, and contacts with government officials and major media outlets such as Fox News, CBS, Newsmax, and Sinclair.

The FBI also demanded communications with White House advisers such as Stephen Miller, Dan Scavino, Jared Kushner, and Lara Trump, as well as broad financial data tied to conservative causes.

Republican critics say the depth and scope of the requests reveal a political dragnet designed to surveil and intimidate the opposition. “Arctic Frost is Joe Biden’s Watergate,” said Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), calling it a political enemies list executed through the Justice Department. “This was an absolute and egregious abuse of power.” (CF.org, 10/30/2025)