FBI fires agents who scrutinized Patel in Trump documents case
The FBI has fired at least 10 agents and support staff over allegations that they obtained phone records connected to FBI Director Kash Patel and White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles as part of the investigation into Donald Trump’s mishandling of classified documents, four people briefed on the matter told MS NOW.
An FBI spokesperson did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the terminations.
In a statement widely circulating online, Patel called it “outrageous and deeply alarming that the previous FBI leadership secretly subpoenaed my own phone records — along with those of now White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles — using flimsy pretexts and burying the entire process in prohibited case files designed to evade all oversight.”
The FBI did not make public any evidence to buttress the claim, though toll records — which list the phone numbers called and the times and durations of those calls, but not their content — are routinely and legally obtained in a criminal investigation.
As part of the Trump classified documents probe, the Justice Department and FBI investigated Patel’s public claim that Trump, while president, had declassified large numbers of records en masse, and that therefore no laws had been broken when the documents were transferred to Mar-a-Lago.
The terminations are the latest in an ongoing purge of bureau employees who participated in investigations of Donald Trump.
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When Patel isn't partying with the men's hockey team in Milan he still has time for a little retribution. So what trope will trump's faithful use to ignore/justify/rationalize/deny this story? Will they falsely claim, like R senators did over Jack Smith's investigation, that obtaining phone call toll records is illegal? Will they employ the tried and true, "MSNOW is fake news." Will they use ,"Patel is the FBI director and can fire anyone he wants." Will it be, "good riddance to those Deep State commies."
There's a reason for that kind of abject absurdity. The excuses happen because the explanation for the firings is so painfully obvious. Revenge for the agents having the audacity to do their jobs. Namely, investigating a crime the regime would rather pretend never happened.
