FBI Fires Dozen More Agents After Revelation Biden-Era Bureau Subpoenaed Patel and Wiles Phone Records

At least a dozen FBI employees were fired this week after revelations that the bureau under the Biden administration secretly subpoenaed the phone records of Kash Patel and Susie Wiles — both private citizens at the time who would later become Trump's FBI Director and White House Chief of Staff, respectively — as part of Special Counsel Jack Smith's investigation. The firings represent the latest wave of terminations targeting FBI personnel involved in Biden-era probes of Trump and his associates, extending a purge that has already removed agents who worked on the January 6, Russia, and classified documents investigations. The revelation that the government surveilled the future heads of the FBI and White House while they were private citizens has intensified calls from Republican lawmakers for a full accounting of what they describe as the weaponization of federal law enforcement.