‘I Was Offended’: Ted Cruz Explains Why He Wasn’t Tracked By Biden’s FBI

Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) says he was not among the Republicans targeted and tracked by former President Joe Biden’s FBI — and he claimed during a recent podcast episode that it was largely thanks to his wireless service provider, AT&T.

Cruz was responding to recent reporting on an operation code-named Arctic Frost that the Biden administration used to spy on a number of conservatives and even elected Republicans, including many of Cruz’s current colleagues in the U.S. Senate.

Senator Chuck Grassley released a list of senators who had been targeted through Arctic Frost early in October, naming Republican Sens. Josh Hawley (MO), Marsha Blackburn (TN), Lindsey Graham (SC), and Tommy Tuberville (AL), among others — but Cruz’s name did not appear on the list.

This document shows the Biden FBI spied on 8 of my Republican Senate colleagues during its Arctic Frost investigation into “election conspiracy” Arctic Frost later became Jack Smith’s elector case against Trump

BIDEN FBI WEAPONIZATION = WORSE THAN WATERGATE pic.twitter.com/V2JyiVlX48

— Chuck Grassley (@ChuckGrassley) October 6, 2025

Cruz explained on the October 22 episode of “The Verdict” that he was one of nine whose phone records were subpoenaed by Biden’s Justice Department in an effort to investigate the January 6th riot on Capitol Hill — but that AT&T had refused to turn over his information. The DOJ reportedly received information on the other senators from Verizon.

“All nine of them had their cellphone records handed over to the Biden Department of Justice,” Cruz said. “Now, I gotta admit just over a week ago, Sean Hannity was in town and I had dinner with Sean and with several of the senators on that list as well — and I was laughing with Sean, I was actually kind of offended. Like how did I get left out of this list?”

The Texas senator laughed, adding, “What did I have to do? I was literally standing on the Senate floor on January 6 objecting and leading the fight, and I had brought together 11 senators to stand together and fight for an election commission to assess the evidence of voter fraud … I was joking with Sean, but I wasn’t entirely joking.”

Cruz said the reason he had initially been left out was soon clear: “Well, it turns out the reason that I was not on the list, is apparently all eight of those senators, their cellphones are with Verizon — and evidence had come out that Verizon had handed over their cellphone information. Well, my cellphone is with AT&T, and 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, and AT&T told him to go jump in a lake.”

AT&T, Cruz explained, refused to give up the information: “I’m proud of them. They did the right thing, I appreciate that.”