According to FBI Director Kash Patel, the agents involved in secretly tracking phone calls of eight Republican senators and a congressman have been fired. Patel said the proof was uncovered in a hidden “lockbox” from Jack Smith’s 2023 investigation into Donald Trump.
For context, the FBI Director accused the Biden DOJ of weaponizing law enforcement, exposing the subpoenas as politically motivated, and vowed to ensure accountability. Echoing these comments, Sen. Josh Hawley condemned the subpoenas as an unprecedented abuse of power that violates constitutional principles and demanded an investigation.
In any case, Patel gave a long series of remarks to offer additional context to a concerned public. Speaking about the lockbox, he said, “You put it in there when you want to hide it from the world, and that takes the authorization of the attorney general and the director of the FBI.”
Continuing, he noted how this proves the complicity of the last administration. “So not only did they weaponize this law enforcement, but when we got in there, and when I got in as the FBI director, from my experience as Russiagate, I knew where to look and what rooms to open and what doors to kick down, and that’s what we did,” Kash Patel noted.
Making his conclusion explicit, the FBI Director pointed out exactly which Democrats were at the root of this issue, saying, “We found this information to expose the politicization by Jack Smith and the prior Department of Justice.”
Contextualizing, Patel expressed how much this information should disturb patriotic Americans. “I mean, just think about it, eight sitting United States senators. Phone records were gathered and subpoenaed through the grand jury process, and it was buried and wormholed. It was the hope that no one would find it. So we’re just scratching the surface here, but accountability is coming,” Patel vowed.
Taking a moment to address criticism from across the aisle, Kash Patel went ballistic. The FBI director declared, “You’re darn right. I fired those agents. You’re darn right. I blew up CR-15, the public corruption squad that led the weaponization at the Washington Field Office. We’re just warming up, but we are running our investigations to the ground. We are finding every single person involved. We will not leave a single room locked.”
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Senator Josh Hawley (R-AR) offered another view. He stated that this scandal was, “An abuse of power beyond Watergate, beyond J. Edgar Hoover, one that directly strikes at the Constitution, the separation of powers, and the First Amendment.”
Building on this point, he clarified, “We need a full investigation of all involved: who knew about it, who ordered it, and who approved it. Anyone and everyone who violated the law must be prosecuted. The way to save the country is to restore the rule of law.”
Taking to social media, one popular conservative said, “So to recap, Democrats weaponized the TSA to harass Tulsi Gabbard and Republican Congressmen and we just learned the FBI was spying on eight Republican senators… but something something Trump is an authoritarian?”