subpoena

Alternatively, an attorney might be able to get a hold of that recorded call with a subpoena.

"Come clean. Come before the US Congress, voluntarily testify. Don't wait for a subpoena. Come and testify and tell us what you know."

Mr. Smith’s lawyers are punching back, recently sending Mr. Grassley a letter protesting that all the prosecutor’s subpoenas—including for phone tolling data for numerous Republican senators—were “proper, lawful” and had been approved.

On social media, FBI Director Kash Patel said he would fired “those who acted unethically,” and opened an investigation into Smith’s subpoenas of the senators’ phone records.

The public-private arrangement lets the firm employ the powers of a government subpoena to gather information that it can then deploy elsewhere.