Kash Patel Fires FBI Agents Involved in Tracking GOP Senators’ Phone Calls
FBI Director Kash Patel has fired agents involved in tracking phone calls of eight Republican senators and a congressman as part of former Special Counsel Jack Smith’s investigation of President Donald Trump.
Communication records belonging to GOP Sens. Lindsey Graham (SC), Marsha Blackburn (TN), Ron Johnson (WI), Josh Hawley (MO), Cynthia Lummis (WY), Bill Hagerty (TN), Dan Sullivan (AK), Tommy Tuberville (AL), and Rep. Mike Kelly (PA) were handed over to Smith’s “Arctic Frost” team after they subpoenaed major phone companies in 2023, Breitbart News reported.
That fact was unknown to the public until this week, with Patel saying he discovered the files hidden in a “lockbox” that was placed in a “vault” in a “cyber place where no one can see or search these files.”
🚨 BREAKING: FBI Director Kash Patel exposes that the Deep State HID evidence that Jack Smith spied on 8 GOP senators after the 2020 election in a vault
"You're darn right I fired those agents. You're darn right I blew up CR-15, the public corruption squad…we're just WARMING… pic.twitter.com/QekpNIkH5J
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“You put it in there when you want to hide it from the world, and that takes the authorization of the attorney general and the director of the FBI,” Patel said in a Tuesday interview on Fox News. “So not only did they weaponize this law enforcement, but when we got in there, and when I got in as the FBI director, from my experience as Russiagate, I knew where to look and what rooms to open and what doors to kick down, and that’s what we did.” (Read more from “Kash Patel Fires FBI Agents Involved in Tracking GOP Senators’ Phone Calls” HERE)
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