U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) said on Wednesday that telecommunications giants AT&T and Verizon should explain their decision to cooperate with the Biden administration in 2021, when subpoenas were issued to grant FBI surveillance for the private communications of eight Republican senators, including Blackburn and Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN).

Blackburn wrote in a post to X, "We need to know why [AT&T] and [Verizon] did not challenge the subpoena for the phone records of 8 United States Senators when the Biden FBI spied on us during an anti-Trump probe. There needs to be a reckoning for this."

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