The dismissed employees were involved in the investigation into the US president’s handling of confidential materials and the 2020 election probe
At least ten FBI agents linked to the 2022 investigation into US President Donald Trump’s alleged mishandling of classified documents and the search of his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida were dismissed on Wednesday, according to multiple media reports.
The firings came after FBI Director Kash Patel said federal authorities had obtained his phone records under the administration of former President Joe Biden in connection with investigations into Trump.
“It is 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,” Patel told Reuters on Wednesday.
The FBI Agents Association, which represents current and former agents, condemned the firings in a statement on Wednesday, saying they violated due process and calling them “unlawful termination[s] of FBI Special Agents.”
The group said the firings weaken the bureau by removing “critical expertise, destabilizing the workforce and undermining trust in leadership,” which it warned could hamper recruitment efforts and ultimately put the nation at greater risk.
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