FBI and DOJ Independence

At least 10 FBI agents and support staff who worked on the Mar‑a‑Lago/classified‑documents probe were fired after obtaining subpoenas for toll and phone records tied to Kash Patel and White House chief of staff Susie Wiles. The toll records (numbers, times, durations) are routinely used in criminal investigations; Patel—who testified under a grant of immunity about Trump’s public declassification claims—called the subpoenas “outrageous” and “hidden in prohibited case files,” investigators say the records did not show declassification and also reviewed an allegation that Trump showed a highly classified document to Wiles, while critics contend the firings are part of a Patel‑led purge.