2026年3月19日 晚上10:59 UTC / 路透社
- 摘要
- 特工称他们被指派参与该调查
- 诉讼称解雇侵犯了特工的宪法权利
- 自解雇以来，两名特工均未能找到新工作
3月19日（路透社）- 两名前FBI特别探员周四在联邦法院起诉该局局长卡什·帕特尔，称他们因参与调查唐纳德·特朗普总统试图推翻2020年选举结果的工作而被解雇。
这些特工在华盛顿特区联邦法院匿名提起诉讼，称特朗普及其支持者因他们参与调查而要求解雇他们后，帕特尔去年秋天解雇了他们。诉讼称，帕特尔称参与选举案的特工是“腐败分子”，并“滥用执法权”，在未经听证或调查的情况下解雇了他们。
特工们称，他们被指派参与调查，该调查导致特朗普在2023年因涉嫌领导阻止认证其败选给前总统乔·拜登的阴谋而被起诉。2024年特朗普连任后，美国司法部撤销了此案。
诉讼要求法院恢复特工的职位，并认定解雇行为侵犯了他们根据美国宪法享有的言论自由和正当程序权利。
FBI发言人拒绝置评。
起诉的特工称，他们曾在华盛顿现场办事处工作，并因多年来的出色表现受到称赞。
他们各自被指派参与调查所谓的通过使用假选举人推翻2020年选举的计划，FBI将该调查称为“北极霜”。他们在诉讼中表示，这项工作不属于他们的常规任务，且两人均未在其中发挥主要作用。
在2024年特朗普的连任竞选期间及当选后，他和其支持者誓言要找出他们所谓的“政治上反对特朗普”的政府雇员，其中特别针对FBI。
诉讼称，特朗普在社交媒体帖子中将参与“北极霜”调查的特工称为“十足的渣滓”和“激进左翼疯子”。
根据诉讼，两名特工均在2025年10月底至11月初之间被解雇。每人都收到了解雇信，但诉讼称，他们都没有被告知解雇是因为表现不佳或不当行为。
诉讼称，自解雇以来，两名特工均未能找到新工作，部分原因是解雇信中的措辞禁止他们在联邦政府继续任职。但他们也多次被其他组织拒绝录用，部分原因是担心录用他们会损害与特朗普政府的关系。
报道：戴安娜·诺瓦克·琼斯；编辑：斯蒂芬·科茨
Former FBI agents sue Patel claiming they were fired for work on Trump election conspiracy case
March 19, 2026 10:59 PM UTC / Reuters
- Summary
- Agents say they were assigned to the investigation
- Firings violated agents constitutional rights, lawsuit says
- Neither agent has been able to find employment since firing
March 19 (Reuters) – Two former FBI special agents sued agency director Kash Patel in federal court on Thursday, claiming they were fired because of their work on the investigation into President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
The agents, who filed their lawsuit in Washington D.C. federal court anonymously, said Kash fired them last fall after Trump and his supporters pushed for their removal over their work on the investigation. Kash, who said agents who worked on the election case were “corrupt actors” who “weaponized law enforcement,” terminated them without a hearing or investigation, the lawsuit claims.
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The agents said they were assigned to work on the investigation, which led to Trump’s indictment in 2023 on charges he led a conspiracy to block the certification of his election defeat to former President Joe Biden. The U.S. Department of Justice dropped the case in 2024 after Trump’s reelection.
The lawsuit asks the court to reinstate the agents to their positions and find that the firings violated their rights under the U.S. Constitution to free speech and due process.
An FBI spokesperson declined to comment.
The agents suing said they were assigned to work in the Washington field office and had been lauded for their performance during their years of service.
They were each assigned to the investigation into an alleged scheme to overturn the 2020 election through the use of fake electors, a probe the FBI called “Arctic Frost.” The work was not part of their normal assignments and neither agent played a major role, they said in the lawsuit.
Throughout Trump’s reelection campaign in 2024 and after his election, he and his supporters vowed to seek out government employees who they said were politically opposed to Trump, with a special focus on the FBI.
Trump has called the agents who worked on Arctic Frost “total Scum” and “Radical Left Lunatics” in social media posts, according to the lawsuit.
Both agents were fired between late October and early November 2025, according to the lawsuit. Each was given a termination letter, and neither was told their termination was based on poor performance or misconduct, the lawsuit said.
Neither agent has been able to secure new employment, in part because the language in their termination letters bars them from further employment with the Executive Branch, the lawsuit said. But they have also been repeatedly rejected from employment with other organizations, based in part on a fear that their hiring could harm relationships with the Trump administration, the lawsuit said.
Reporting by Diana Novak Jones; Editing by Stephen Coates
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