Jack Smith’s FBI Ran a Secret ‘Pen Register’ on Susie Wiles’ Phone — Tracked Calls With 21 Trump Lawyers, Campaign Advisers, and at Least Five Journalists

Newly released documents show Jack Smith’s team monitored phone metadata tied to Wiles during the Trump classified-documents investigation

Disgraced Biden-era special counsel Jack Smith’s team secretly monitored the phone activity of Susie Wiles while she was running President Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign, newly released documents show.

The memos, released Monday by the White House Government Transparency Task Force and first reported by Just the News, show FBI agents assigned to a probe codenamed Plasmic Echo slapped a pen register and trap-and-trace device on Wiles’ phone. From at least February through May 2023, analysts logged who called her, whom she called back, and how long the calls lasted.

That dragnet swept up her contacts with at least 21 Trump-affiliated defense lawyers, campaign staff, political advisers, and at least five journalists. Most names are redacted. Two are not: current FBI Director Kash Patel, and Just the News founder John Solomon.

A pen register does not record what was said. It records the metadata, numbers, times, and duration. In the hands of a prosecutor already hunting Trump, that is still a map of the defense.

They logged the calls down to the second.

On March 24, 2023, an FBI employee in the Washington Field Office wrote: “Good afternoon, WFO is continuing to review the PR/TT on Wiles’s phone number and observed that [Lawyer 7] called Wiles at 2:04pm this afternoon for 41 seconds. [Lawyer 7] first called Wiles at 2:10pm EST on March 21, and Wiles returned his call for 1 minute and 34 seconds later that day at 2:59pm. These are the only contacts we have observed between the two of them since the PR/TT’s inception.”

In late February, an intelligence analyst had even less to report, and still wrote it down: “There is nothing significant to report on the PR/TT. Today, an ABC News reporter called her at 8:48 AM for 2 minutes and 36 seconds.”

A March 10 FBI memo ran three pages of Wiles’ phone contacts. On April 7, 2023, agents interviewed her. Three days later they went right back to the pen register.

“On 10 April 2023, WFO reviewed WILES’s telephonic activity to determine contacts of interest on the date of her FBI interview,” the records state.

Veteran investigative reporter Catherine Herridge, reviewing the same declassified file, called it a classic FBI “tickle the wire” move: contact the target, then watch who she calls next.

Herridge reported the tracked contacts also included the First Lady and political advisers, and that an administration official described the tactics as “intrusive.” The probe, she noted, laid the groundwork for the classified-documents case against Trump.

Herridge wrote:

Pen Register Trap and Trace or PRTT
– Surveillance tool collects non-content routing data
– Phone numbers dialed or received
– Call times and duration

Two Scenarios
– Used for criminal and national security investigations
– lower standard than probable-cause warrant

Potential Violations
– First (Freedom of Speech) and Fourth Amendments (unreasonable search and seizure)

NOTE: Former Senior FBI agent says it looks like a classic FBI “tickle the wire” operation.

After FBI agents contact Wiles, the bureau tracks phone calls to identify who she immediately contacts

“On 10 April 2023, FBI WFO (Washington Field Office) reviewed WILES’s telephonic activity to determine contacts of interest on the date of her FBI interview.”

NEW: DECLASSIFIED FBI Probe “PLASMIC ECHO”

– Appears to use FBI investigative tool known as a “Pen Register” to target phone calls of then campaign manager @SusieWiles47

– Allegedly tracked nearly two dozen defense attorneys, five journalists, @FLOTUS, political advisers including @FBIDirectorKash

– Administration official characterizes as “intrusive tactics” by special counsel Jack Smith team
– Probe laid groundwork for classified records case against President Trump

Pen Register Trap and Trace or PRTT
– Surveillance tool collects non-content routing data
– Phone numbers dialed or received
– Call times and duration

Two Scenarios
– Used for criminal and national security investigations
– lower standard than probable-cause warrant

Potential Violations
– First (Freedom of Speech) and Fourth Amendments (unreasonable search and seizure)

NOTE: Former Senior FBI agent says it looks like a classic FBI “tickle the wire” operation.

After FBI agents contact Wiles, the bureau tracks phone calls to identify who she immediately contacts

“On 10 April 2023, FBI WFO (Washington Field Office) reviewed WILES’s telephonic activity to determine contacts of interest on the date of her FBI interview.”

Declassified records via @WhiteHouse transparency task force

— Catherine Herridge (@C__Herridge) October 5, 2026

The memos, detailed by John Solomon, read like a stakeout log.

WATCH:

JOHN SOLOMON: We have obtained the pen register records showing the FBI sitting in on Susie Wiles’s phones as part of Jack Smith’s investigation, code named Plasmic Echo, the originator of the Mar-a-Lago raid.

They were mapping in real time:

1. President Trump’s contacts with his legal defense team, identifying which lawyers called at what time of day.

2. Journalists. My calls as a reporter for Just the News were flagged. So were the New York Times and ABC News.

3. Campaign activity, including his political action committee and the Trump team’s social media and endorsements.

Endorsements, money, social media, legal contacts, all protected by the Constitution, but maybe not protected by Jack Smith and his team.

@jsolomonReports

— Bannon’s WarRoom (@Bannons_WarRoom) October 5, 2026

This is not a one-off. It is the next document drop in a pattern The Gateway Pundit has been reporting since winter.

In February, The Gateway Pundit reported that Biden’s FBI secretly obtained the phone records of Kash Patel and Susie Wiles in 2022 and 2023, while both were private citizens, and buried the files in “prohibited” case folders designed to hide them from ordinary searches. Patel called it “outrageous and deeply alarming.”

Days later, The Gateway Pundit reported that Wiles’ lawyer flatly denied the FBI’s claim that he consented to a recorded call with his client. “If I ever pulled a stunt like that I wouldn’t – and shouldn’t – have a license to practice law,” he told Axios. “I’m as shocked as Susie.”

In March, The Gateway Pundit reported on the Arctic Frost hearing in which that privileged-call allegation was laid out in public, along with evidence the records were parked in prohibited files. Grassley had already released Smith subpoenas for roughly two years of Patel’s private records — text and call logs, home address, even a credit card number.

The congressional side of the same operation is worse. The Gateway Pundit reported in July that Chairman Chuck Grassley revealed Smith’s team reviewed the contents of text messages sent by 44 members of Congress, after Smith testified he had not read the content. Arctic Frost produced 197 subpoenas sweeping up hundreds of Republican individuals and organizations.

Last week, The Gateway Pundit reported that Sen. Bill Hagerty asked the Tennessee bar to disbar Smith for hiding facts from a federal judge so he could secretly seize senators’ call logs under a nondisclosure order signed by Chief Judge James Boasberg. Sen. Marsha Blackburn has sued Smith personally.

In September, The Gateway Pundit reported that Smith’s investigators collected 4,782 personal checks from Trump donors and seized records of communications involving nearly 50 journalists.

Trump attorney Alina Habba has said Smith sent the FBI to her New Jersey home and subpoenaed her as a lawyer.

Now the same operation’s paperwork shows agents watching the campaign chief’s phone to see which defense lawyer she dialed after they interviewed her.

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