The FBI analyzed phone records of nine Republican lawmakers, including Wyoming U.S. Sen. Cynthia Lummis, as part of an investigation into efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election, according to information released Monday by GOP senators.
“The FBI in 2023 sought and obtained data about the senators’ phone use from January 4 through January 7, 2021,” according to a press release from Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley of Iowa. The committee oversees the FBI.
The data does not include the content of the calls, the release said, but shows “when and to whom a call is made, as well as the duration and general location data of the call.”
Included in the release was a copy of a one-page FBI document dated Sept. 27, 2023, which lists Lummis alongside seven other U.S. se