A new document obtained by The Tennessee Star reveals that former Kansas Attorney General Phill Kline was among the 430 individuals or organizations who were subpoenaed by former special prosecutor Jack Smith as part of the Arctic Frost probe into the 2020 election contest by President Donald Trump and other Republicans, revealing for the first time that legal experts and organizations who sought to contest the results from outside the White House were included in Smith’s investigation.

The Star obtained correspondence from Verizon last week, notifying the Kline family on February 25 that its records had been subpoenaed by the U.S. Senate. The records requested related to an earlier subpoena obtained by Smith, and Verizon attached records revealing the special prosecutor’s office contacted the telecommunications company on August 1, 2023, to inform them of their obligation to produce Kline’s records to comply with a grand jury subpoena.

According to the letter from the special prosecutor’s office, the subpoena sought subscriber information, names, addresses, records for inbound and outbound calls, text messages, and voicemails, as well as the "[m]eans and source of payment,” to Verizon, which the document specified included the credit card or bank account Kline used to pay his phone bill.

It also sought any other phone numbers associated with Kline’s account, as well as the Internet Protocol (IP) addresses he used to access the internet using his Verizon-connected devices.

Like the Arctic Frost subpoenas that sought phone records for various Republicans in Congress, including at least eight U.S. senators, the order was signed by U.S. District Court Judge James Boasberg, an appointee of former President Barack Obama who has sparred with the Trump administration.

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