据福克斯新闻获悉，超过10名FBI员工周三被解雇，另有至少两名FBI人员周五被终止职务。
据悉，在帕特尔和怀尔斯仍是普通公民时，FBI于2022年和2023年传唤了他们的电话记录。
目前，帕特尔担任FBI局长，怀尔斯担任白宫办公厅主任。
被解雇的联邦调查局员工姓名因隐私原因未公开。联邦调查局特工协会（FBIAA）本周早些时候批评了这些解雇行为。
该组织在一份声明中表示：”FBIAA谴责今天对FBI特别探员的非法解雇，这与帕特尔局长之前的其他解雇行为一样，侵犯了那些冒着生命危险保护我们国家的人的正当程序权利。”
“这些行动削弱了该局的力量，因为它剥夺了关键专业知识，破坏了员工队伍的稳定，损害了对领导层的信任，并危及该局实现招募目标的能力——最终使国家面临更大风险。”
路透社首先披露了这些传票是在拜登政府任内发出的，当时特别顾问杰克·史密斯正在调查特朗普试图推翻2020年选举的行为，以及他在佛罗里达州海湖庄园处理机密文件的情况。
2023年，史密斯最终以多项重罪指控特朗普，指控他涉嫌试图质疑2020年选举结果，以及卸任后处理机密文件的行为。
在特朗普再次当选后，史密斯因司法部反对起诉在任总统的政策，撤回了选举干预案，联邦法官随后驳回了该案件。
史密斯还撤回了司法部对另一项驳回机密文件案件裁决的上诉。特朗普否认在这两起事件中有任何不当行为。
帕特尔周三在给福克斯新闻的声明中称，扣押电话记录的行为”令人发指且极度令人担忧”。
他说：”令人发指且极度令人担忧的是，前FBI领导层以站不住脚的借口秘密传唤了我和现任白宫办公厅主任苏西·怀尔斯的电话记录，并将整个过程掩盖在旨在规避所有监督的禁止档案中。”
FBI表示，这些信息是在该局新发现的”禁止档案”中被发现的。
帕特尔还表示，他最近终止了FBI将档案归类为”禁止类”的权限。
福克斯新闻还从两名FBI官员处获悉，2023年，FBI探员据称录制了怀尔斯与其律师的电话通话。
据这些官员称，怀尔斯的律师知道通话正在被录制并表示同意，但怀尔斯并未被告知。
怀尔斯2023年的律师否认了这些说法。
据Axios报道，这位身份不明的律师表示：”如果我真的做了这种蠢事，我就不应该——也不应该——拥有律师执业执照。我和苏西一样感到震惊。”
史密斯在2025年作证称，议员通话记录帮助调查人员核实了1月6日国会山骚乱相关事件的时间线。
他说检察官”在获取这些记录时遵守了所有法律要求”，并告诉众议院小组委员会，从议员那里获得的记录不包含对话内容。
福克斯新闻的艾玛·布西和艾玛·科尔顿对本报道有贡献。
At least a dozen FBI employees were fired this week after revelations that the bureau under the Biden administration allegedly subpoenaed Kash Patel and Susie Wiles’ phone records in 2022 and 2023 as part of a federal probe into then-former President Donald Trump.
More than 10 FBI employees were fired Wednesday, with at least two additional FBI personnel terminated Friday, Fox News has learned.
The FBI allegedly subpoenaed Patel’s and Wiles’ records in 2022 and 2023 while they were private citizens.
Patel now serves as the director of the FBI and Wiles serves as the White House chief of staff.
The names of the fired bureau employees were not shared due to privacy reasons, with the FBI Agents Association (FBIAA) criticizing the firings earlier in the week.
“The FBIAA condemns today’s unlawful termination of FBI Special Agents, which—like other firings by Director Patel—violates the due process rights of those who risk their lives to protect our country,” the organization said in a statement.
“These actions weaken the Bureau by stripping away critical expertise and destabilizing the workforce, undermining trust in leadership and jeopardizing the Bureau’s ability to meet its recruitment goals—ultimately putting the nation at greater risk.”
Reuters first disclosed the subpoenas, which were issued during the Biden administration, while Special Counsel Jack Smith was investigating Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election and his handling of classified documents at Mar-a-Lago, Florida.
Smith ended up charging Trump in 2023 with multiple felony offenses related to alleged efforts to challenge the results of the 2020 election and Trump’s handling of the documents after he left office.
A federal judge later dismissed the election interference case after Smith moved to drop it following Trump’s re-election, citing a Justice Department policy against prosecuting a sitting president.
Smith also dropped the Justice Department’s appeal of a separate ruling that dismissed the classified documents case. Trump has denied any wrongdoing in both matters.
In a statement to Fox News Wednesday, Patel called the move to seize the phone records “outrageous and deeply alarming.”
“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,” he said.
The FBI said it discovered the information in the bureau’s newly discovered “prohibited case file.”
Patel also said he recently ended the FBI’s ability to categorize files as “prohibited.”
Fox News also learned from two FBI officials that in 2023, FBI agents allegedly recorded a phone call between Wiles and her attorney.
According to those officials, Wiles’ attorney was aware the call was being recorded and consented, but Wiles was not informed.
Wiles’ 2023 attorney disputes those claims.
“If I ever pulled a stunt like that I wouldn’t — and shouldn’t — have a license to practice law,” the unidentified attorney said, according to Axios. “I’m as shocked as Susie.”
Smith testified in 2025 that records of members’ calls helped investigators verify the timeline of events surrounding the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.
He said prosecutors “followed all legal requirements in getting those records” and told a House panel the records obtained from lawmakers did not include the content of conversations.
Fox News’ Emma Bussey and Emma Colton contributed to this report.
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