Thick as Thieves: Top Attorney For Special Counsel Jack Smith Previously Spiked Clinton Foundation Investigation

Ray Hulser, the then-head of the Department of Justice’s Public Integrity Section (PIN), withheld information from the U.S. Attorney’s office investigating the Clinton Foundation under Trump 1.0. Hulser would later downplay and/or provide inconsistent details concerning the Clinton Foundation probe to both Trump 1.0’s DOJ and Special Counsel John Durham’s office. In spite of — or maybe because of — that history, Special Counsel Jack Smith selected Hulser to help lead the criminal witch-hunt against Trump, with Hulser personally recommending Smith subpoena the toll records of nearly a dozen Congressional Republicans.

Earlier this month, Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, wrote Ray Hulser requesting Hulser appear before the House Judiciary Committee for a transcribed interview on Tuesday, December 30, 2025. Jordan’s letter explained that the committee is investigating “former Special Counsel Jack Smith’s partisan investigations into President Trump and his associates following the 2020 election” and that recently released documents raised concerns over Hulser’s involvement and specifically his role in “subpoenaing phone records for several Members of Congress.”

The “recently released documents” to which Jordan referenced consisted of, among other things, a memorandum drafted by Hulser and his colleague in the special counsel office, J.P. Cooney, seeking authorization from Smith to subpoena the toll records of “Senators Marsha Blackburn, Lindsey Graham, Bill Hagerty, Josh Hawley, Cynthia Lummis, Ron Johnson, John Kennedy, Tim Scott, Dan Sullivan, and Tommy Tuberville, and Representative Mike Kelly.” The documents released by Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, in mid-November of 2025 also included Smith’s email approving the subpoenas.

But it would be the documents Grassley released two weeks ago which revealed Hulser’s role in the weaponization of the DOJ was not limited to the “get Trump” efforts of the Biden Administration and Special Counsel Smith: Those documents suggest Hulser sought to thwart the DOJ’s investigation into the Clinton Foundation.