Posted on 02/26/2026 11:10:46 AM PST by Labyrinthos
The FBI has dismissed 10 agents and analysts involved in former special counsel Jack Smith's classified documents prosecution of President Trump, a spokesperson for the bureau confirmed Thursday.
On Wednesday, it was revealed that subpoenas were sent to Kash Patel, who now serves as FBI director, and Susie Wiles, now Trump's White House chief of staff, during the 2024 campaign.
Patel told Reuters, which first reported on the subpoenas, that agents had sought his phone records "using flimsy pretexts and burying the entire process in prohibited case files designed to evade all oversight."
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I’d like to see criminal charges. Firing seems weak.
Not sure what the crime is.
I’ll give it twelve hours, till some damn bitch in a black robe reinstates all their jobs and awards them damages.
It is possible that no crime was committed.
https://www.fox19.com/story/8874048/irs-employee-sentenced-for-looking-at-celebs-tax-records/
That’s a story about an IRS employee who was criminally charged, and sentenced, for looking at tax records without authorization.
I get it — the IRS is not the FBI. But there is at least some commonality. If you poke around in sensitive records without a good reason, you can sometimes get into trouble.
Well, just maybe, ALL PROHIBITED CASE FILES, need to be reviewed for corruption?
The FBI engaged in a disgusting fishing operation looking for anything they could find.
I suspect anything derogatory or politically useful was being forwarded to folks like HRC in unofficial meetings and outside of official channels where a record is created. Example, Tarmack meeting or servers and email accounts with other aliases.
The FBI split it up between all the various divisions and compartmentalized it. You have 56 fields offices, and they chose it up between them having each work a few folks.
Basically, EVERY relative, friend, business and political associate of Trump was looked into to see if something could be found which could be used against him.
All illegal of course. But that’s what you have a “classified” stamp for, right?
Charge these FBI officials with giving aid and comfort to the domestic and foreign enemies of the United States.
Biden spied on Patel and Wiles, private citizens — even pierced the attorney-client privilege.
Why the hell does it take freedom of info requests to get these people fired! You know they’ll never be prosecuted.
Bkmk
Fired but not charged?
Corrupt cops. Disgusting.
Flimsy probable cause, over-classifying their own documents to try to hide them from future investigators or his defense attorneys , classifying internal documents that may be exculpatory or showing the FBI knowingly acted inappropriately or against policy etc etc. The fact they were fired shows there is less chance they can be charged with a crime, like abuse under color of law - but broke policies and procedures.
For all we know the FBI showed up at Mar-A-Lago with folders stamped “Classified”, laid them on the floor and took a picture and sent it out to the media.
We all know what the raid was really about - politics. Not crime. Trump people were negotiating with the National Archives about what should and should not be returned and the FBI just jumped in with BS pretext. As POTUS he has ultimate authority to decide what to declassify and there is not necessarily a formal process to do so. But the FBI ignored all that flimsiness in the attempt to either jail him or prevent him from re-election. Epic Fail.
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