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Nobody can blame FBI Director Kash Patel for loving America and hockey. Yet reflecting on Mr. Patel’s celebrating our great Olympic players in Milan last weekend, one can’t help but wonder if his time might have been better spent identifying more employees to terminate. Jana Winter reported this week for Reuters: The FBI subpoenaed records of phone calls made by
Kash Patel and Susie Wiles, now the FBI director and White House Chief of Staff, when they were both private citizens in 2022 and 2023 during the federal probe of Donald Trump, Patel told Reuters on Wednesday… “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 Reuters. Reuters could not independently verify
many of the details about Patel’s claims, including the full extent and timing of the seizure of phone records and the motive for doing so. Patel said the records were filed in a way that made it difficult for him and other FBI leaders to find them after taking over the bureau in February 2025. Verifying the facts of what happened here could not be more important to ensure that Americans are not targeted for their politics and abused by the investigative machinery of the government. There’s at least one element of the Reuters story that deserves a great deal of attention and it goes even beyond phone logs of numbers called. Ms. Winter reported:
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