US senator seeks telecom firms' data on lawmakers from probe of Jan 6 capitol riots

Verizon on Friday told Reuters it had provided the requested customer information and call records. "Federal law requires companies like Verizon to respond to grand jury subpoenas," Verizon said. "We received a valid subpoena and a court order to keep it confidential. We weren't told why the information was requested or what the investigation was about." Blackburn said all three companies got subpoenas for phone records related to "time, recipient, duration, and location of calls placed on our devices from Jan 4, 2021, to Jan 7, 2021." The records were part of special prosecutor Jack Smith's investigation into President Donald Trump’s effort to overturn his loss of the 2020 election to his Democratic opponent, Joe Biden. Trump was charged in...