Jan. 6 Investigators Seized 30 Million Lines Of Phone Records To Hunt Trump Allies

Congressional investigators collected tens of millions of phone records in an effort to map connections between conservatives and the Trump White House as part of the Democrat-led Jan. 6 investigation, according to an FBI memo obtained by Just the News.

The memo states the trove, revealed to the FBI by ex-Republican Rep. Adam Kinzinger, contained roughly 30 million lines of phone data collected without a warrant, Just the News reported Wednesday. Kinzinger told the bureau the records had been compiled by former GOP Rep. Denver Riggleman, then a senior adviser to the Jan. 6 panel who has since worked for Hunter Biden’s legal team, according to the outlet.

According to the memo, recently uncovered by FBI Director Kash Patel, Kinzinger told the FBI that Riggleman used congressional subpoenas to collect the data, linking millions of phone records, including calls associated with the Trump White House.

“While former congressman Denver Riggleman worked with the Select Committee he (Riggleman) had a contact and was able to obtain toll information including for White House root or switchboard numbers via congressional subpoena,” the FBI agents wrote in their memo, according to the outlet.

“Kinzinger noted that he (Kinzinger) did not conduct the analysis himself but that Riggleman had identified certain telephone connections between numbers identified as being associated with the White House and certain individuals,” the memo continued.

The former Illinois congressman notified the FBI of the records in December 2023, a year after leaving Congress and after the committee had already finished its work, the outlet reported. Kinzinger was one of just two