Wiles "in shock" over FBI phone-record subpoena

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: msn/Axios

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FBI Director Kash Patel says the FBI under President Biden subpoenaed his phone records and those of Susie Wiles, who ran President Trump's campaign and is now White House chief of staff, when they were private citizens.

The big picture: Trump officials familiar with the investigation tell Axios the revelations might be "the tip of the iceberg," and that the FBI may have probed more Trumpworld figures.

Wiles told associates: "I am in shock."

What they're saying: Patel said in a statement to Axios, "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."

State of play: Patel told Reuters, which broke the story, that investigators obtained "toll records" — the timing and recipients of calls. The FBI sought records of calls Patel and Wiles made in 2022 and 2023, amid the federal probe of whether Trump improperly stored classified documents at Mar-a-Lago, Patel said.

Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/wiles-in-shock-over-fbi-phone-record-subpoena/ar-AA1X7ML9

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REFERENCE - https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143622332

He obviously has ZERO idea about what the FBI "does", apparent with his fake outrage, and despite being in charge of the place, yet spending most of his time engaging in leisure activities and misuse of government property.

[sinkingfeeling]

1. Oh, just drop dead already.

[muriel_volestrangler]

2. They both consort with known criminals, such as Donald John Trump

so it seems no surprise at all.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

3. Deadline Legal Blog-MAGA pretends to misunderstand this routine investigative move

Law enforcement routinely obtains phone records when conducting investigations. Republicans have tried to paint that common move as scandalous.

MAGA pretends to misunderstand this routine investigative move - MS NOW apple.news/A4OHAw9CrTqG...

— (@oc88.bsky.social) 2026-02-26T20:26:10.520Z

https://www.ms.now/deadline-white-house/deadline-legal-blog/phone-records-jack-smith-2020-trump-kash-patel-fbi-firings

Republican lawmakers have been criticizing former special counsel Jack Smith for obtaining some of their phone toll records in his 2020 election interference investigation. Yet it’s a routine step in criminal probes to secretly get such records, which don’t capture the substance of conversations like wiretaps do but rather show which numbers were in contact at certain points in time.

Regarding the nondisclosure orders his team obtained with those records, Smith explained to lawmakers that “there was a grave risk of obstruction of justice, given the obstructive conduct of President [Donald] Trump as is set forth, for example, in the indictment in Florida,” referring to the other case he brought against Trump, related to classified documents.

Both of Smith’s cases vanished with Trump’s 2024 election win, due to the Justice Department’s policy against prosecuting sitting presidents. But instead of leaving the dismissals as windfalls for the president and trying to move on, Republicans have been keeping the memory of Trump’s alleged criminality alive by attacking Smith and other government workers associated with the efforts against the revenge-minded president.

The latest example, MS NOW reported Wednesday night, is that the FBI “has fired at least 10 agents and support staff over allegations that they obtained phone records connected to FBI Director Kash Patel and White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles” as part of the classified documents probe. Patel called it “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.”.....

To be sure, a person getting their phone records subpoenaed during an investigation doesn’t mean they’re guilty of any crimes or even that law enforcement thinks they are. But the FBI firings, which, perhaps not coincidentally, come amid the latest scrutiny of Patel’s directorship, also recall his own strange ties to the classified documents case, in which he testified in the grand jury after publicly claiming that Trump declassified documents before leaving the White House the first time.

So, while Patel has claimed that a “pretext” was used against him to get his records when he was a private citizen, he could be relying on a misleading rationale himself for these latest firings. Of course, it’s only the latest revenge-based move by this administration against people who did their jobs. That the move is some mix of Trumpian vengeance and self-preservation on Patel’s part seems clear, while painting a potentially ordinary investigative step as scandalous in the process.

[dweller]

4. Buck up googly eyes

you’ll get over it





✌🏻

[hatrack]

5. Go find more jocks to sniff, you steaming pantload of incompetence . . . .

Cash fucking Patel. God, what an asshole.

[FakeNoose]

6. If they had no calls to or from criminals, then there's nothing to worry about

[pat_k]

7. The phoney outrage about a routine part of the investigation is beyond tiresome.

[chowder66]

8. I wonder if she and Patel are in shock that they work for an adjudicated rapist and probable pedophile.

[BumRushDaShow]

9. Not to mention

a convicted felon!