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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Isabel Keane

Patel fired key members of FBI spy group that monitors Iran threats days before Trump launched attacks: report

FBI Director Kash Patel’s vengeful firing of FBI agents who worked on the probe into classified documents at President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate left the department without an elite global spy unit that monitors threats from Iran.

Patel fired a dozen FBI agents last Wednesday after learning that his and White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles’ phones had been under subpoena as part of the probe into Trump’s hoarding of top secret records at Mar-a-Lago.

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