作者：贾娜·温特（Jana Winter）
2026年2月25日 美国东部时间晚上9:32
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FBI局长卡什·帕特尔于2026年1月23日在美国加利福尼亚州安大略市举行的新闻发布会上宣布，抓获了曾列入FBI十大通缉犯名单的前加拿大奥运单板滑雪运动员瑞安·韦丁（Ryan Wedding）。
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- 摘要
- 电话记录是在海湖庄园机密文件案期间收集的
- 记录被标记为“禁止访问”，这使得特朗普政府官员更难获取
- 帕特尔称调查人员获取了“通话记录”，详细说明了通话的时间和接收者
华盛顿，2月25日（路透社） – 帕特尔周三告诉路透社，2022年至2023年期间，在联邦调查唐纳德·特朗普（Donald Trump）的过程中，FBI传票调取了现任FBI局长帕特尔和现任白宫办公厅主任怀尔斯（当时均为普通公民）的通话记录。
据帕特尔透露，路透社是首家报道拜登政府时期FBI采取上述行动的媒体，当时特别检察官杰克·史密斯（Jack Smith）正在调查特朗普是否干预2020年大选以及在海湖庄园藏匿机密文件。史密斯于2022年11月被任命接手该调查。
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帕特尔指控FBI“越权”
帕特尔称，FBI突袭获取他和怀尔斯的电话记录，并试图隐瞒这些行为，是拜登政府下非民选官员“越权”的例证，这也是特朗普总统反复强调的主题。
“令人发指且令人深感不安的是，前FBI领导层以站不住脚的借口秘密传票调取我的电话记录——以及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‘禁止访问’的案件档案中，以逃避所有监督，”帕特尔在致路透社的声明中表示。
路透社无法独立核实帕特尔指控中的诸多细节，包括电话记录调取的完整范围、时间以及动机。帕特尔称，这些记录被归档的方式使得他和其他FBI领导层在2025年2月接管该局后难以找到。
至少10名FBI员工因“针对帕特尔”被解雇
据三名FBI官员透露，由于帕特尔、怀尔斯及其他与海湖庄园机密文件案相关人员被“针对”的消息曝光，至少10名现任FBI员工已被解雇。
民主党议员辩护史密斯
国会民主党人一贯为史密斯辩护，驳斥共和党此前的批评，称其为彻底调查特朗普及其同伙的不当行为而调取电话记录等证据是“必要且适当的”。
调查人员在调查中通常会传票调取通话记录，即使是对名人的调查，目的是确定案件关键事实及涉案人员。
争议焦点：电话记录的“禁止访问”标签
帕特尔称，他发现这些电话记录被归类为“禁止访问”，导致他和其他FBI官员难以在系统中检索到。他表示，自己已近期终止了FBI对文件“禁止访问”的分类权限。
路透社无法独立确认FBI获取的具体记录内容或批准传票的决策者。也无法确定帕特尔或怀尔斯本人是否在调查中，以及调查原因。两人在此期间均是特朗普的核心助手：怀尔斯在特朗普2024年竞选拜登时担任联合竞选经理，帕特尔则是其政治盟友。
史密斯的调查与“禁止访问”文件
史密斯的调查手段此前曾遭到共和党领导人谴责，包括在其调查所谓“推翻2020年大选”的行动中，调取美国参议员及其他共和党官员的电话记录。
去年，史密斯在国会作证时表示，议员通话记录帮助调查人员核实了2021年1月6日国会山骚乱事件的时间线，且“所有法律要求均已遵守”。他向众议院小组委员会表示，获取的议员通话记录不含对话内容。
特朗普案后续
史密斯于2023年以重罪指控特朗普，但案件最终被联邦法官驳回，且在特朗普赢得2024年大选后，史密斯放弃了上诉。特朗普否认与史密斯调查有关的所有不当行为。
帕特尔称，FBI获取电话记录的行为持续至怀尔斯担任特朗普联合竞选经理期间，但未说明具体起止时间。
司法系统的争议
周一，一名联邦法官永久禁止司法部公布史密斯关于机密文件案的调查报告。史密斯曾告知国会，法院命令禁止他讨论任何未在法庭文件中披露的调查细节。
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Exclusive: FBI obtained Kash Patel and Susie Wiles phone records during Biden administration
By Jana Winter
February 25, 2026 9:32 PM UTC Updated 1 min ago
Item 1 of 3 FBI Director Kash Patel announces the apprehension of Ryan Wedding, a former Canadian Olympic snowboarder who was on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitive list, during a press conference in Ontario, California, U.S., January 23, 2026. REUTERS/Mike Blake/ File Photo
[1/3]FBI Director Kash Patel announces the apprehension of Ryan Wedding, a former Canadian Olympic snowboarder who was on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitive list, during a press conference in Ontario, California, U.S., January 23, 2026. REUTERS/Mike Blake/ File Photo Purchase Licensing Rights, opens new tab
- Phone records were collected around the time of the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case
- Records were labeled “Prohibited,” making them harder for Trump officials to find
- Patel said investigators obtained “toll records,” which detail the timing and recipients of calls
WASHINGTON, Feb 25 (Reuters) – The FBI subpoenaed records of phone calls made by Kash Patel and Susie Wiles, now the FBI director and White House Chief of Staff, when they were both private citizens in 2022 and 2023 during the federal probe of Donald Trump, Patel told Reuters on Wednesday.
Reuters is the first to report on the FBI’s actions that took place during the Biden administration, largely when Special Counsel Jack Smith was investigating whether Trump had interfered with the 2020 election and had hidden classified documents at Mar-a-Lago, according to Patel. Smith was appointed to take over that probe in November 2022.
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Patel portrayed the seizing of his phone records by the FBI and efforts to conceal them as an example of overreach by unelected government officials under Biden, a theme often repeated by President Trump.
“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,” Patel said in a statement to Reuters.
Reuters could not independently verify many of the details about Patel’s claims, including the full extent and timing of the seizure of phone records and the motive for doing so. Patel said the records were filed in a way that made it difficult for him and other FBI leaders to find them after taking over the bureau in February 2025.
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At least 10 current FBI employees have been dismissed as a result of the revelations about the targeting of Patel, Wiles and others connected to the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case, according to three FBI officials.
Democrats in Congress have consistently defended Smith from previous GOP criticisms, saying he had acted appropriately in seeking phone records and other evidence they said was necessary to thoroughly investigate allegations of wrongdoing by Trump and his associates.
Investigators routinely subpoena and collect records of phone calls during investigations, even of prominent people, while seeking to determine the key facts in a case and who might be involved in a particular incident.
Patel publicly said in 2022 that Trump had declassified the documents taken to Mar-a-Lago, a claim prosecutors disputed and Trump’s lawyers did not make in court. Patel was summoned before a grand jury hearing evidence in the case that year after he was given limited immunity from criminal charges.
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Reuters could not independently establish what records the FBI obtained or who approved the subpoenas. The news agency also couldn’t ascertain if Patel or Wiles themselves were under investigation and, if so, why. Both were close to Trump during this period, as he built toward and ultimately launched his campaign to reclaim the presidency in 2024.
Both Patel and Wiles were known to have been interviewed by investigators as part of Smith’s investigation into Trump’s retention of classified documents following his first term.
In 2023, the FBI recorded a phone call between Wiles and her attorney, according to two FBI officials. Wiles’ attorney was aware that the call was being recorded, and consented to it, but Susie Wiles was not.
A spokesperson for Smith declined to comment on Patel’s allegations on Wednesday. Biden, former Attorney General Merrick Garland, and former FBI director Chris Wray, who oversaw the bureau during Smith’s investigations, did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Garland appointed Smith as special counsel.
A federal judge on Monday permanently barred the Justice Department from releasing Smith’s report on the documents investigation. Smith has told Congress that he is barred by court orders from discussing any aspects of the probe that have not been previously disclosed in court filings.
Smith previously told Congress that his investigators had serious concerns about obstruction of justice in their investigations. He told lawmakers last month that his office “followed Justice Department policies, observed legal requirements and took actions based on the facts and the law.”
The White House and Wiles did not immediately comment.
Patel said investigators used subpoenas to obtain what are known as “toll records,” which detailed the timing and recipients of calls he and Wiles made, but not what was said on the calls. The government may lawfully obtain phone records via subpoena without a judge’s approval.
Patel said investigators obtained the records around the time Smith led the probe into allegations that Trump illegally took classified documents to his South Florida property, Mar-a-Lago, after he left the presidency in 2021 and allegedly obstructed federal efforts to return those documents.
Smith charged Trump with felonies related to this investigation in 2023 but that case was ultimately dismissed by a federal judge, and Smith dropped an appeal of that ruling after Trump won election to a second term. Trump has denied wrongdoing related to Smith’s investigations.
Patel said he did not know the FBI’s purpose in seizing the phone records of him and Wiles, who became a top Trump adviser after he left office in 2021 and eventually co-campaign manager for his 2024 run against Biden. Patel also was a Trump political ally during this time.
Patel said the collection of phone records extended into Wiles’ time as Trump’s co-campaign manager, though he did not say when exactly the record collection began or ended.
The FBI discovered the phone records in files categorized as “Prohibited,” which makes them difficult to discover on the bureau’s computer systems. Patel said he recently ended the FBI’s ability to categorize files as “Prohibited.”
Smith’s investigative techniques have previously drawn denunciation from GOP leaders, including the seizure of phone records of U.S. senators and other Republican officials during Smith’s probe into alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election.
Smith testified, opens new tab last year that records of members’ calls helped investigators verify the timeline of events around the January 6 Capitol riot and that prosecutors “followed all legal requirements in getting those records.” He told a House panel that the records obtained from lawmakers did not include content of conversations.
Reporting by Jana Winter in Washington, DC. With contributions from Brad Heath and Andrew Goudsward in Washington, DC. Editing by Craig Timberg and Michael Learmonth
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