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‘The fact that he’s been able to bring some transparency to government is a tribute to his independence,’ the senator said.

Wednesday’s release of the latest bombshell documents exposing the corruption and hypocrisy that defined Joe Biden’s weaponized Department of Justice is another good sign that the Trump DOJ remains committed to transparency and accountability.

The senator who made the communications public said he couldn’t have done so without the continued cooperation of Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche and his staff.

‘Violation and Incident’

As The Federalist’s Brianna Lyman reported on Wednesday, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley released another round of records suggesting the Biden DOJ mishandled classified documents as Special Counsel Jack Smith — the left’s unlawfully appointed errand boy — pushed his case alleging that then-citizen Donald Trump mishandled classified information.

Messages from DOJ staff and Smith’s team point to careless handling of top secret documents, disregard for critical procedures, and a flippancy from law enforcement officials itching to knock Trump out of the political arena.

In a letter to Blanche, Grassley notes concerns that an individual was given access to classified materials without confirming the required “need to know” condition. The Iowa Republican wrote that there was “at least one instance” in which the potential movement of classified materials retrieved by the special counsel’s office was unaccounted for, and a “violation and incident” occurred when a sensitive compartmented information facility (SCIF) “was left open at least overnight and potentially longer.”

2day I released msgs showing Biden DOJ personnel incl ppl assigned to Jack Smith's Special Counsel Office potentially mishandled CLASSIFIED MATERIAL while Smith ws prosecuting Pres Trump 4that very offense

Msgs indicate HYPOCRITICAL+CARELESS BEHAVIOR &merit further investigation

- Chuck Grassley (@ChuckGrassley) July 8, 2026

In a series of messages between Carli Rodriguez-Feo, who worked in the Justice Department’s Litigation Security Group, and Smith team member Julie Edelstein, the two chat about a man identified as “Dan” and how he “just moved forward with clearing someone without the need to know confirmation..”

“‘[W]ere there any concerns’ … don’t care if there were!” Rodriguez-Feo wrote in a message dated Oct. 16, 2023.

Edelstein “became involved in the Trump-related documents case even before Smith was appointed special counsel,” according to ABC News’ 2023 profile piece on Smith’s special counsel team. In 2005-06, while in law school, Edelstein “interned for the House Homeland Security Committee, working with the top Democrat on the panel, Rep. Bennie Thompson of Mississippi,” according to the news outlet.

Grassley said the communications appear to be related to Smith’s investigation into Trump’s confidential documents case. Smith simultaneously led the left-wing vendetta campaign to convict the president of trying to overturn the rigged 2020 presidential election.

‘To Put Trump in Prison’

In an interview Wednesday on NewsRadio 1040 WHO in Des Moines, Grassley told me that his committee obtained the records from the Department of Justice. Iowa’s eight-term senior senator said he has worked in an oversight capacity with seven presidents and Trump’s DOJ has been the most cooperative.

“I’ve had so many investigations that fall into this category of not having documents given to us,” Grassley said of other administrations.

“So I want to compliment Trump and his people for cooperating with me because making this stuff public, transparency brings accountability,” the Judiciary Committee chairman added. “This is history, but if this stuff isn’t made known to the American people it could go on and on and on and get lost in the big bowels of bureaucracy. And we can’t have stuff like this going on — handling classified documents in this way and violating classified document laws just to put president trump in prison.”

In October, the Judiciary Committee released an explosive FBI document that showed the Biden administration’s FBI targeted the personal cell phones’ “tolling data” of several Republican lawmakers, including eight senators, as part of its corrupt Arctic Frost investigation . The Biden FBI tried to bury the records in a Prohibited Access file. Trump’s FBI released the information to Grassley and his committee.

A month before, Grassley released records showing how former FBI Director Christopher Wray “sought to place under political investigation” the Democratic Party’s political enemies, including the Republican National Committee, Republican Attorneys General Association and Trump political groups. Nearly 100 Republican targets in total swept up in the Arctic Frost witch hunt, Grassley said.

Grassley praised Trump FBI Director Kash Patel for correcting whistleblower retaliation and increasing transparency “more than any other FBI Director I’ve seen.”

The accomplice media scoff at such praise for the president and administration they love to hate. Dutifully parroting the Democrats’ talking points, they accuse Trump of weaponizing his DOJ to target his political enemies — precisely what the Biden Justice Department did over four long years.

‘We Ought to Thank Him for That’

Yes, Trump has an ax to grind. After spending most of the Biden years being harassed, sued, investigated, indicted, arrested, prosecuted, persecuted, ejected from the ballot and shot at, the grinding is understandable.

He wants accountability for bad actors in the government. So do the American people. Justice for the unjust in the Biden Department of Justice.

As Grassley noted in his letter to Blanche, Trump watched as Barack Obama’s FBI Director James Comey refused to prosecute 2016 Democrat presidential candidate and wretched shrew Hillary Clinton for clearly mishandling highly classified material.

“Not only did the Obama Justice Department not prosecute, but — as shown by the records that have since been declassified — the Obama FBI also failed to fully investigate necessary leads,” Grassley wrote.

Biden’s DOJ refused to prosecute his decades-long mishandling of highly classified records even though the Department determined evidence showed “that President Biden willfully retained and disclosed classified materials,” Grassley wrote. Special Counsel Robert Hur’s report found that Biden willfully retained the records (some in his garage) but declined to press criminal charges because Biden would seem to a jury a “sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.”

Unlike his predecessors, the president isn’t interested in currying favor and playing nice with the monstrous deep state. That has cost him some political bumps and bruises, but it’s also delivered much-need reforms, removal of rotten apples, and, to a small degree, consequences for corrupt lawfare agents.

“But the fact that he’s been able to bring some transparency to government is a tribute to his independence, a tribute to how he loves America, a tribute to how he wants to keep government within its constitutional bounds and we ought to thank him for that,” Grassley said.

The senator does have a little advice for Trump: “I wish the president would step in and tell his CIA director, ‘Give Grassley what he needs.'”

His committee has had all kinds of trouble obtaining crucial documents from the intelligence committee, the CIA specifically, Grassley said. He declined to go into specifics.

“When you deal with the CIA it’s a totally different thing because they’re going to be overly protective of how they do things,” he said. “But this stuff, we know, has no business not being released.”

Listen to the complete interview with Sen. Grassley.

Matt Kittle is a senior elections correspondent for The Federalist. An award-winning investigative reporter and 30-year veteran of print, broadcast, and online journalism, Kittle previously served as the executive director of Empower Wisconsin.

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