Commentary

Have you heard about Operation Arctic Frost?  No, it isn’t a plan to acquire Greenland.  However, when it was mentioned by Senator Grassley during the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing with FBI Director Patel, I became curious.

It surfaced during a shouting match between Senator Schiff and Patel when Schiff demanded to know whether Patel had ever terminated or disciplined an FBI employee because they had been assigned or worked on an investigation of Trump or January 6.  

It was timely that Grassley used his position as Judiciary Committee Chairman, to intercede to reveal that Biden’s FBI had targeted Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA organization and other conservative groups.

Obviously, that piqued my curiosity. I was unaware that Senators Grassley and Johnson, in a March 13, 2025 letter to Attorney General Bondi and Patel, had informed them of whistleblower disclosures and unclassified FBI reports regarding Operation Arctic Front, a politically driven conspiracy among anti-Trump FBI agents and prosecutors, that needed to be investigated.

The persistent Grassley reminded Patel that this was the third letter he had written to him and Bondi on this matter.

In researching Arctic Frost, I found Grassley’s previous letters to Bondi and Patel that included information provided by the whistleblower. I also found considerable information published in obscure publications.

So, what is Operation Arctic Frost all about, and why should you care?

The weaponization of the FBI isn’t just a matter for Washington insiders.  It’s a direct assault on the foundation of our republic, a threat to the democratic process.  It was Biden who repeatedly said that Trump was a threat to democracy. What a hypocrite.

Biden’s FBI launched Arctic Frost in April 2022, designed to target former President Trump, former Vice President Pence and other associates.  It’s further evidence of the lack of integrity of federal law enforcement and its abuse under Biden as the FBI was used as a tool of partisan warfare over a competing candidate.  That puts former FBI Director Chris Wray in the same bin of corruption as Comey, McCabe, Strzok and Page.

The whistleblower told Grassley and Johnson about the seizure of government issued cell phones previously used by Trump and Pence, extensive interviews across numerous states and the issuance of 50 subpoenas.

The FBI secured the phones – held by the Biden White House – without an initial warrant, with cooperation of the White House counsel’s office.  Only in May did agents draft a search warrant to extract data.

I have learned that the scope of the investigation was staggering.  Within weeks of the launch of Arctic Frost, 13 FBI field offices conducted dozens of interviews, spending taxpayer funds.  Ninety-two Republicans, including Republican groups and Republican-linked individuals like Kirk were investigated.

Aware that he was a target by his own government had to weigh on Kirk, who had also learned of his being a target by radical leftists, but he continued his mission of debating the issues of the day.

Grassley revealed that the probe under Arctic Frost was led by Assistant Special Agent in Charge Timothy Thibault, with a documented anti-Trump bias.  He was forced to resign when it was learned that he operated outside FBI protocols. 

Learning also that Richard Pilger, an official in the DOJ’s Public Integrity Section, had approved Arctic Frost, led Grassley to voice concern over a select group of DOJ and FBI involved in the illegal “fishing” investigation.

Reporting on the scandal, Headline USA noted, “Let’s not forget, Biden himself set the tone by labeling Trump supporters as enemies of the state.  Coincidentally Joe Biden warned that America was about to enter a ‘dark winter’ … in keeping with the code-name Arctic Frost.”

The New York Times, like me, learned of Arctic Frost with Grassley’s mention during the Patel hearing, and naturally believed the FBI agents “took normal bureaucratic steps and precautions when opening the extraordinarily sensitive inquiry.” But I differ, believing that the venerable Grassley is more knowledgeable than the Times reporters Alan Feuer and Adam Goldman.

Challenging Grassley’s view of Thibault as anti-Trump, the Times boys painted Thibault as “a top agent and veteran public corruption investigation” who “played a key role in seeking justification to open the investigation.”

The Times disregarded Thibault’s critical messages on social media and his piece written for The Atlantic, “Donald Trump is a Broken Man.”

It’s up to Bondi and Patel now to continue to clean house of those who took part in this and other weaponization efforts.

May God continue to bless the United States of America.