2026年3月19日 / 美国东部时间下午2:38 / CBS新闻
华盛顿— 两名曾协助调查特朗普总统试图推翻2020年总统选举结果的前FBI特工周四起诉联邦政府，称他们因参与该调查而被非法解雇。
这起诉讼针对FBI局长卡什·帕特尔（Kash Patel）、司法部长帕姆·邦迪（Pam Bondi）及其各自机构提起，是越来越多前特工提起的案件中的最新一起，这些特工声称自己因政治原因被解雇，且未经过正当程序。
诉讼中没有提及这两名前特工的姓名，他们均参与了2020年选举案件，该案件在FBI内部被称为“北极霜冻”（Arctic Frost）。在诉讼中，他们被称为John Doe 1和John Doe 2。
前特工要求法院认定其《第一修正案》和《第五修正案》权利受到侵犯，并要求恢复其原职。
解雇发生在2025年秋季，就在调查的未删节内部文件公开提交给国会后不久。
“FBI局长卡什亚普·‘卡什’·帕特尔（Kashyap ‘Kash’ Patel）立即解雇了每位原告。在解雇前，他们未经过内部调查、通知或听证会。原告也未被出示任何据称支持解雇的证据，也未获得上诉机会，”前特工在提交给美国哥伦比亚特区地方法院的诉讼中称。
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在诉讼中，前特工表示，他们的解雇违反了FBI政策，该政策规定，特工只能因事被解雇，如工作表现不佳、休假滥用、不当行为、国家安全问题或无法履行职责。
其中一名被解雇的特工因需要财务调查专业知识，被要求协助特别顾问杰克·史密斯（Jack Smith）领导的2020年选举调查。但诉讼称，他最终执行的工作“主要是行政和文书性质”。
“尽管他被列为联络人，但John Doe 1本人准备的‘北极霜冻’传票请求非常少，且在调查中仅扮演了次要角色，”诉讼补充道。
另一名前特工John Doe 2也不是该案件的首席调查员，其角色为“辅助角色，在主要特工或检察官要求时记录采访、安排采访录音的转录服务，以及跟踪采访日志和记录”。
诉讼称，John Doe 1于2025年万圣节（10月31日）在准备带孩子去“不给糖就捣蛋”时被通知解雇。
John Doe 2几天后被解雇。当时，他正在处理“一起针对政府的高调欺诈调查”，并且刚刚向帕特尔和前FBI副局长丹·博尼诺（Dan Bongino）汇报了该案件。
根据诉讼，当时美国检察官让·皮罗（Jeanine Pirro）试图干预以挽救该特工，因他参与了其办公室的重要工作，但干预失败。
诉讼称，自解雇以来，两名前特工均难以找到新工作。
Perry Law律师事务所合伙人、前特工的代理律师伊丽莎白·图利斯（Elizabeth Tulis）表示，她的当事人“只是做了他们受培训应做的事：接受上级的任务并以专业和非政治化的方式执行”。
“政府解雇他们不是因为他们做错了什么，而仅仅是因为他们被指派调查涉及当时前总统特朗普的案件，以及存在他们因此不支持特朗普总统的政治非支持者的看法，”图利斯说。“《第一修正案》禁止这种政治报复。”
Fired FBI agents who worked on Trump 2020 election probe sue for wrongful termination
March 19, 2026 / 2:38 PM EDT / CBS News
Washington— Two former FBI agents who helped investigate President Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election results sued the federal government on Thursday, alleging they were wrongfully terminated simply because they worked on the probe.
The lawsuit, filed against FBI Director Kash Patel, Attorney General Pam Bondi and their respective agencies, is the latest in a growing number of cases being filed by former agents who allege they were fired for political reasons without due process.
The lawsuit does not name the two former agents, each of whom worked on the 2020 election case that was known internally at the FBI as “Arctic Frost.” They are referred to as John Doe 1 and John Doe 2 in the suit.
The former agents are asking the court to find that their First and Fifth Amendment rights were violated and to reinstate them to their previous jobs.
The firings took place in the fall of 2025, not long after unredacted internal documents from the investigation were released publicly to Congress.
“FBI Director Kashyap ‘Kash’ Patel summarily fired each Plaintiff. No internal investigation, notice, or hearing preceded their firings. Nor were Plaintiffs presented with any evidence purportedly supporting their firings or given an opportunity to appeal,” the former agents allege in the lawsuit, which was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.
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Spokespeople for the Justice Department and the FBI could not be immediately reached for comment.
In the lawsuit, the former agents said their firings run afoul of FBI policy, which stipulates that agents can only be removed for cause, such as poor performance on the job, abuse of leave, misconduct, national security concerns or an inability to perform their duties.
One of the fired agents was asked to help with the 2020 election probe, led by special counsel Jack Smith, because of the need for financial investigative expertise. However, the work he ultimately performed was “largely administrative and ministerial,” the lawsuit says.
“Despite his listing as a point of contact, John Doe 1 himself prepared very few Arctic Frost subpoena requests and performed only a minor role in the investigation,” it added.
The second former agent, John Doe 2, was also not a lead investigator for the case, and served in a “supporting role, handling tasks such as recording interviews when requested by lead agents or prosecutors, arranging for transcription services for recorded interviews, and keeping track of interview logs and records,” the lawsuit says.
John Doe 1 was informed of his firing on Halloween 2025, as he was about to go trick-or-treating with his children, the lawsuit says.
John Doe 2 was terminated a few days later. At the time, he was working on “a high-profile fraud against the government investigation” and he had just briefed both Patel and former FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino on the case.
At the time, U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro tried to intervene to save the agent from being fired because of the important work he was involved with for her office, but the effort failed, according to the lawsuit.
Since their terminations, both former agents have struggled to find new jobs, the suit said.
Elizabeth Tulis, a partner at Perry Law and an attorney for the former agents, said that her clients “did exactly what they were trained to do: they accepted an assignment from their supervisors and carried it out professionally and apolitically.”
“The government fired them not because they did anything wrong, but solely because of their assignment to an investigation involving then-former President Trump, and a perception that the agents were therefore political non-supporters of President Trump,” Tulis said. “The First Amendment forbids this kind of political retaliation.”
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