Whenever the government does something questionable, sketchy, or downright illegal, it gives the enterprise a catchy or exciting-sounding name.  For instance, when the Obama Administration, to include Il Duce Obama, Biden, Hillary Clinton, James Comey, James Clapper, and the CIA’s John Brennan, invented the story that Donald Trump was colluding with the Russians to fix the 2016 election, they called it “Crossfire Hurricane,” or as FBI agent Peter Strozk liked to call it, “insurance.”

Now we’re learning that, after failing to prevent Trump’s 2016 election; after having spies, liars, and turncoats hound and hamper his Administration; after arresting and prosecuting General Flynn; after exposing Trump to a phony Special Counsel investigation; after impeaching him twice; and after indicting him four times in an attempt to imprison him for life, the Democrats still weren’t satisfied.

Throwing caution, not to mention, the Constitution, the United States Code, the Federal Court Rules, and any semblance of fair dealing and decency to the wind, the Democrats set out to further “insure” a victory in 2024, by embarking on a fishing expedition designed to prevent Trump from being a presidential candidate.

The poorly named Biden “Justice” Department, appointed rabid dog, Jack “The Knife” Smith as Special Counsel to investigate Trump.  The appointment was unconstitutional, a fact which District Judge Eileen Cannon later confirmed, as it was made by bypassing Senate confirmation requirements.  Smith went directly to work with a singular purpose in mind, marshaling, and/or fabricating the evidence needed to see that Donald Trump was facing so many criminal prosecutions that he could never again run for president.

Smith and Company came up with a new operational name for his activities, “Operation Arctic Frost.”  The investigation could easily have been given other names, such as, “Operation Enduring Bullshit,” of “Operation Reviving Fascism.”  And Jack Smith was the perfect man for the job, as he embraces the same philosophy as the former head of Russia’s KGB (or NKGB or NKVD) under Josef Stalin, “just show me the man, and I will show you a crime.”

Smith, Merritt Garland, and the rest of Biden’s cronies decided in advance, and without any real evidence, that the protests of January 6, 2021 were part of a nefarious plot to alter the result of the 2020 presidential election.  This, of course was ludicrous, but it was the Democrats’ convenient explanation designed to cover up any irregularities in the 2020 election, of which there were many.  The solution?  The time honored Leftist tactic of accusing your opponents of that which you yourselves have been doing.

For that reason, the Democrats went about prosecuting people, some of whom had been admitted to the Capitol Building that day by obliging guards, including many blameless grandmothers, with felonies, in order to bolster the nonsensical notion that what went on that day was an “insurrection.”

Make no mistake.  A small number of the people who entered the Capitol that day did commit crimes.  I am on record as saying that I would not have pardoned anyone who did property damage, stole something, or put their hands on a law enforcement officer.  Then again, given the fact that only carefully chosen information was released by the highly partisan January 6th Committee, and that volumes of exculpatory evidence were concealed, and later destroyed by that Committee, it’s hard to fault the 2025 blanket pardons.

Democrats shamelessly resorted to their go-to tactics.  Lies and obfuscations.  Democrats still continue to repeat the lie that 5 police officers were killed on January 6th.  Many uninformed people actually believe it.  In truth, there was but one death on January 6th.  An unarmed woman, needlessly shot to death by a Capitol police officer.  The officer faced no criminal investigation, and no grand jury.  He later was given a medal and promoted – by the same people who now relentlessly castigate the conduct of ICE agents in Minneapolis, who were attacked by violent protestors.

But back to Jack The Knife.  In the absence of any reasonable suspicion that they had in any way broken any law, Smith obtained, from friendly (and perhaps complicit) Obama/Biden District Judges, at least 400 subpoenas for telephone information on public officials and private citizens whose only crime was being Republicans who may have communicated with President Trump.

To make things worse, the judges were prevailed upon to issue nondisclosure orders, preventing any of the subjects of the subpoenas from being notified that their telephone records had been seized.  These subjects included at least 20 Republican Senators, including Chuck Grassley, Lyndsey Graham, Ted Cruz, Ron Johnson and Mike Lee.  The subjects also included unelected, private citizens, such as current FBI Director Kash Patel, journalists, tech billionaires, Rudy Giuliani, who is still being prosecuted, and current White House Chief of Staff Susie Wilds.  Smith even went so far as to wiretap a telephone call between Ms. Wilds and her private attorney.

That action was beyond the pale.  As a participant in more wiretaps than I care to remember, the interception of communications between a criminal suspect and his or her attorney is highly illegal.  And Ms. Wilds wasn’t even a criminal suspect.  She was merely one of hundreds, or perhaps thousands, of citizens who were made fodder for an illegal fishing expedition.

As for the elected officials, electronic surveillance of members of Congress is controlled by protocols that require the subject to be notified immediately.  Moreover, absent indisputable evidence, Congressmen are almost never subjected to such treatment.  For instance, Democrat William Jefferson of Louisiana had his office searched, but only after law enforcement found $90,000 in cash in a freezer.  He later was convicted of bribery.  Yet even Jefferson got immediate notice of the law enforcement actions.  On the other hand, Jack Smith thought nothing of making an unannounced, and unnecessary raid on Mar A Lago, to look for classified documents, despite the fact that Trump’s possession of them was not a crime.

The idea that a federal Judge would order nondisclosure of the subpoenas on sitting Senators on the basis that, if notified, they were likely to attempt to flee or destroy evidence, is a transgression of constitutional proportion.  Going back to my experience, I liken the nondisclosure orders to a No-Knock search warrant.

There are two ways to execute a search warrant.  The first is to go to the door, knock, and announce “police officers,” and wait for the door to be opened.  The second is to get a No Knock authorization from the judge, go to the door with a battering ram, a/k/a “a master key,” knock down the door and go inside.  Such authorization is granted only on a showing that the suspect is armed and dangerous or that the evidence is likely to be destroyed.  Using such tactics on  Senators is highly illegal, not to mention stupid.

The revelations of the hundreds of “fishing expedition” communications warrants demonstrates, if we needed any more proof, that the Democrats will stop at nothing to gain or maintain power.

Ted Cruz said it best.  “If Watergate taught us anything, it is that even a single abuse of power carried out by a handful of individuals can shake the foundations of our republic.  But what we confront today, the Biden administration’s Arctic Frost scheme is not a single act.  It is a modern Watergate, trading a break-in at one office for a digital sweep into approximately 100,000 private communications. More than a dozen senators and thousands of individuals lives.”

Jack Smith, the latter day Lavrenti Beria, should not simply walk away from this outrage.  After Stalin died, Beria was denounced, shot dead, and his body cremated.  However appealing that might sound, sadly Jack Smith will be afforded all the legal protections that he denied to so many others.