Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) says former special counsel Jack Smith obtained checks from at least 4,782 Americans as part of his “Arctic Frost” investigation, giving the Biden administration access to these individuals’ bank accounts and routing numbers.

Grassley grilled Smith about the collection of these checks and the privacy consequences of those checks getting into the government’s hands. Grassley said the checks included home addresses, bank account and routing numbers, and signatures from Americans across all 50 states, Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico.

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