The FBI Staffers Kash Patel Ousted Because They Worked on Mar-a-Lago Probe Had Iran Expertise: Report
Source: MEDIAite
Mar 2nd, 2026, 7:27 pm
FBI Director Kash Patel fired at least a dozen counterintelligence staffers at the FBI mere days before the U.S. strikes on Iran, despite their relevant expertise, because they had also previously worked on the investigation into the classified documents at President Donald Trump’s residence at Mar-a-Lago, according to a report by the New York Sun.
The ousted staffers included agents and personnel from a counterintelligence unit called CI-12 in the FBI’s Washington Field Office, and the firings were ordered directly by Patel, reported the Sun’s Daniel Edward Rosen, citing “four former officials familiar with the dismissals.” Their work focused on “media leaks, global espionage, and threats that included those involving the Iranian regime.”
“More broadly, CI squads are the lead domestic teams for investigating insider threats and foreign intelligence activity on American soil,” wrote Rosen. The timing of these firings came just days before the beginning of the Iran strikes and a mass shooting at a bar in downtown Austin, Texas by a man who was wearing clothing that said “Property of Allah” and a design resembling the Iranian flag.
The reason the CI-12 staffers were fired, wrote Rosen, was because they “had previously been assigned, in some capacity, to the Justice Department’s investigation — under the aegis of the Biden administration at the time — into Mr. Trump’s retention of classified documents at Mar-a-Lago.”
Read more: https://www.mediaite.com/politics/the-fbi-staffers-kash-patel-ousted-because-they-worked-on-mar-a-lago-probe-had-iran-expertise-report/
They are now "flying 'blind'" and more than willing to "cut off their nose to spite their face".
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