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WASHINGTON — 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 the Biden DOJ sent subpoenas to Kash Patel, who now serves as FBI director, and Susie Wiles, now Trump’s White House chief of staff, in 2022 and 2023 as the Republican’s campaign was ramping up.

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.”


  Former special counsel Jack Smith testifying before the House Judiciary Committee on January 22. Douliery Olivier/ABACA/Shutterstock Former special counsel Jack Smith testifying before the House Judiciary Committee on January 22. Douliery Olivier/ABACA/Shutterstock

“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,” the FBI chief said in a statement.

An FBI official told The Post that the Patel and Wiles subpoenas were part of “a massive targeting operation” that likely involved more than just the two Trump administration officials.

The discovery was made in files labeled “Prohibited,” similar to the “Arctic Frost” disclosures found in burn bags at the FBI’s Washington, DC, headquarters last year.

Those files contained information about the FBI’s Trump-Russia probe, as well as apparent efforts by Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign to tie the Kremlin to Trump.

A spokesperson for the FBI Agents Association (FBIAA) said in a statement that it “condemns today’s unlawful termination of FBI Special Agents, which—like other firings by Director Patel — violates the due process rights of those who risk their lives to protect our country.”

“These actions weaken the Bureau by stripping away critical expertise and destabilizing the workforce, undermining trust in leadership and jeopardizing the Bureau’s ability to meet its recruitment goals—ultimately putting the nation at greater risk.”

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