Ted Cruz Says AT&T Saved Him from Biden’s FBI Surveillance Dragnet
Senator Ted Cruz revealed this week that he narrowly avoided becoming a target of the Biden administration’s politically motivated surveillance operation — and credits his cellphone provider, AT&T, for holding the line.
Speaking on the October 22 episode of his podcast The Verdict, Cruz discussed the explosive revelations about “Arctic Frost,” the FBI program that reportedly tracked the phone records of sitting Republican senators in the wake of January 6. Biden’s DOJ had subpoenaed the phone data of GOP lawmakers, including Senators Josh Hawley, Marsha Blackburn, Lindsey Graham, and Tommy Tuberville.
Notably absent from the list? Ted Cruz — and according to the Texas senator, there’s a simple reason: his phone carrier refused to comply.
“All nine of them had their cellphone records handed over to the Biden Department of Justice,” Cruz said. “I gotta admit, just over a week ago, Sean Hannity was in town and I had dinner with Sean and several of the senators on that list — and I was laughing with Sean. I was actually kind of offended. Like how did I get left out of this list?”
Cruz, who led the charge on January 6 by spearheading the Senate objection and calling for a voter fraud commission, said it didn’t make sense that he wasn’t among those targeted.
“I was literally standing on the Senate floor on January 6 objecting and leading the fight,” Cruz said. “I had brought together 11 senators to fight for transparency. So I was joking with Sean — but I wasn’t entirely joking.”
According to Cruz, the missing piece of the puzzle came into focus when he learned that the other senators had Verizon accounts — a company that allegedly handed over the data without a fight. Cruz, on the other hand, had his phone service through AT&T.
“I didn’t know it at the time, but I found out late last week that Jack Smith sent a subpoena to AT&T demanding my cellphone records,” Cruz said. “And AT&T told him to go jump in a lake.”
AT&T’s refusal to hand over sensitive data made the difference, Cruz said, and he gave the company credit for doing the right thing when it mattered most.
“I’m proud of them,” he added. “They did the right thing. I appreciate that.”
The revelations are raising new questions about the scope of the Biden administration’s surveillance practices, especially when it comes to targeting political opponents. With multiple senators now confirmed to have been secretly tracked, and prosecutors acting under a partisan agenda, Cruz’s story underscores just how far the government was willing to go — and how close it came to crossing yet another constitutional line.