USA Journal readers will instantly recognize the name Harmeet Dhillon — the powerhouse conservative attorney behind the Dhillon Law Group and the Center for American Liberty, and the former California RNC chair from 2016 until earlier this year. She left that post to take on a much bigger battlefield: serving as Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division at the Department of Justice.
We’ve covered extensively how Biden’s DOJ — through its attack dog Jack Smith — twisted the role of special counsel into a political weapon. Smith’s two failed federal cases against Trump were riddled with questionable legal tactics, but the real scope of his abuse only came into focus this fall. In October, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) revealed that Smith’s team had secretly spied on at least eight Republican senators and a House member while conducting his endless, obsessive investigation.
Grassley’s numbers were staggering: 197 subpoenas targeting 430 Republican individuals and entities. That’s not an investigation — that’s a dragnet aimed at an entire political party.
And it gets worse. As we now know, Smith’s surveillance didn’t stop with elected officials. Dhillon revealed on this week’s episode of Pod Force One that she, too, had been spied on by Smith:
In an interview with podcast host and Post columnist Miranda Devine, Dhillon discussed how as a veteran conservative lawyer she had been involved in many cases brought by Biden’s Department of Justice — but she was outraged to learn the FBI “spied” on her as part of a 2020 election interference case.
“There’s almost never an excuse to pierce a lawyer’s privilege,” the assistant attorney general for the Civil Rights Division said of her work defending Project Veritas for obtaining the diary of Ashley Biden.
“And yet, we’ve seen this Department of Justice and the prior ones, go after many lawyers, go after their communications with their clients, and my law firm represented the former president and his campaign and my law firm’s name, The Dhillon Law Group, is repeatedly mentioned in the Arctic Frost disclosures as a target of these communications.”
The gall of this guy, Jack Smith, is unbelievable. He wasn’t a prosecutor — he was Biden and Merrick Garland’s political hitman, swinging the Department of Justice around like a personal vendetta machine. Every new revelation makes it clearer: the Biden DOJ operated with the ethics of a banana republic.
Dhillon laid out just how outrageous Smith’s conduct was, explaining the core issue that should alarm every American — especially attorneys and their clients. Attorney-client privilege is one of the most sacred protections in our legal system:
The Department of Justice’s civil rights chief Harmeet Dhillon revealed that she was targeted by former President Joe Biden FBI as part of the notorious “Arctic Frost” probe during an interview on “Pod Force One” with @mirandadevine. Subscribe here: https://t.co/njMjS1bvwV pic.twitter.com/kwWEUu1uyu
— New York Post (@nypost) December 10, 2025
The host of the podcast, Miranda Devine of the New York Post, asked Dhillon point-blank: “They spied on you?” Harmeet responded:
“Yes. We were part of the investigative targets, and that’s because we represented the Republican National Committee, and we represented the Trump campaign, and we represented some of the other MAGA entities. And so, I mean, we’re all over the place there. As are several other law firms of current DOJ officials.”
Smith and his minions strutted around like royalty during their heyday, certain they were untouchable, certain their political mission made them immune from consequences. But that swagger won’t save them now.
Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon made it clear: the Trump DOJ isn’t sweeping this under the rug. Not this time. As she put it, they’re “going to get to the bottom of that abuse of power at some point.”
I can only hope so at this point.
