FBI Director Kash Patel fired at least 10 FBI agents over “outrageous” allegations of spying on top Trump administration officials.
Under the Biden regime, FBI agents had “secretly subpoenaed” the phone records of Patel and now White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles while they were private citizens.
The “deeply alarming” discovery was made during an investigation of Special Counsel Jack Smith’s probe of President Trump’s alleged retention of classified documents following his first term in office.
“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 said in a statement to Fox News.
NEW: The FBI subpoenaed Kash Patel’s and Susie Wiles’ phone records in 2022 and 2023, when both were private citizens and as part of a federal probe into President Trump, Fox News has confirmed.
In a statement to Fox News, Patel called the move “outrageous and deeply alarming.”… pic.twitter.com/RSQn74LBOj
— Fox News (@FoxNews) February 25, 2026
Fox News’ Bret Baier covered the breaking story on Wednesday, where it was reported that more firings among the FBI ranks are likely.
🚨 BREAKING: FBI Director Kash Patel just FIRED 10 Deep State agents involved in seizing the PHONE RECORDS of Kash Patel and now-White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles before Trump began his 2nd term
GOOD RIDDANCE! Keep purging, Director Patel! 🔥 pic.twitter.com/ZFjIon8tm8
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) February 25, 2026
The story caused a stir on X, where Trump supporters demanded more accountability for those who spied on their political foes:
So they get fired and that’s it? Break the law get paid huge bucks on the side and then the penalty is being fired only.
— Mav911 (@Mav911BTC) February 26, 2026
I’d love to know which DC judge(s) issued the warrants to obtain those records. And former FBI Director Chris Wray was either incompetent, ignorant or complicit, along with former Deputy Director Paul Abatte. Someone should find out which it was.
— Just Terry (@Just_Terry17) February 26, 2026
Not good enough. They should be immediately arrested.
— gas_station_sushi (@gasstationsushi) February 26, 2026
It shouldn’t be too hard to review the questions asked at his Senate approval hearing, and see which Senators asked things that could only be obtained through a phone tap.
— Trump Lovin Mama (@LLannote) February 26, 2026
He needs to charge those that made the order, not those that followed the orders.
— RealAmericanMade2024 (@Webgordy0813) February 25, 2026
The swamp is deep.
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