By David Shepardson
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Republican U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn wants the CEOs of AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile to disclose whether they received or objected to subpoenas for phone data from eight U.S. senators related to a probe of the January 6, 2021 Capitol riot, according to letters seen by Reuters on Friday.
On Monday, Senate Republicans disclosed a 2023 document that showed the FBI obtained phone data known as “toll records” from senators’ phones, including Blackburn, tied to the U.S. Justice Department’s investigation of the riot.
She wants the telecom companies to answer questions including whether they provided “the cell phone records of their personal devices, their official government devices, or both?”
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