When Biden's FBI agents stormed Mar-a-Lago in August 2022 – the first raid on a former president's home in American history – they told America it was about classified documents and the rule of law.
They forgot to mention they were also secretly collecting phone records on Trump's closest allies at the same time.
Now Trump has answered – and the 10 agents who ran that operation are gone.
Biden's FBI Used Secret "Prohibited" Files to Hide the Susie Wiles Subpoena
The subpoenas were issued in 2022 and 2023 under Jack Smith's sweeping investigation – the same witch hunt that charged Trump with 40 felonies before every case collapsed.
The targets weren't foreign agents or terrorism suspects. They were Kash Patel, now FBI Director, and Susie Wiles, now White House Chief of Staff – both private citizens at the time, targeted because they were loyal to the wrong president.
It gets worse. In 2023, the FBI recorded a call between Wiles and her own attorney without her knowledge. Her lawyer knew it was happening. She didn't. The evidence was then buried in files labeled "Prohibited" – a hidden category engineered to keep the records out of reach of FBI oversight.
That's not an investigation. That's a cover-up.
"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.
FBI Director Fires 10 Agents From Jack Smith's Mar-a-Lago Investigation
Trump's base has watched his embattled FBI Director Kash Patel stumble through his first year with growing frustration.
Patel still hasn't delivered answers on Epstein's co-conspirators – the names Trump supporters were promised would be held to account. He still hasn't given the base a full accounting of what happened to Charlie Kirk, whose assassination investigation Patel botched from the first hour. The Epstein files remain incomplete. The promises remain unkept.
But this one he got right.
Patel briefed Wiles personally on Wednesday – informing her for the first time what had been done to her without her knowledge. She told associates two words: "I am in shock." All 10 agents tied to the operation were fired the same day. Patel also permanently ended the FBI's ability to categorize files as "Prohibited," closing the hiding spot Biden's agents had used for years.
Trump officials familiar with the scope told Axios the full picture may be far larger, with the FBI still working to identify how many other Trump allies had their records pulled.
How Biden's Weaponized FBI Built on Obama's Surveillance Playbook
This isn't the first time a Democrat administration turned federal surveillance tools against political opponents.
Obama's DOJ secretly subpoenaed phone records from 20 Associated Press journalists in 2012. His Justice Department named Fox News reporter James Rosen a criminal co-conspirator under the Espionage Act to justify seizing his emails and call logs.
The machinery Democrats built to target reporters – they kept it. They expanded it. Under Biden they aimed it at a sitting president's closest allies, hid the evidence in restricted computer folders, and hoped no one found it before the 2024 election.
Every time Republicans warned the FBI had been weaponized, Democrats called it a conspiracy theory. The documents found in those "Prohibited" files prove it was documented fact.
The 10 agents who ran that operation chose their side. Now they're living with it.
Sources:
- Reuters, "FBI obtained Kash Patel and Susie Wiles phone records during Biden administration," Reuters, February 25, 2026.
- Fox News Staff, "Biden's FBI subpoenaed Kash Patel's and Susie Wiles' phone records during federal Trump investigation," Fox News, February 25, 2026.
- Newsweek Staff, "Kash Patel Slams Biden-Era FBI Subpoena of His and Susie Wiles' Phone Records," Newsweek, February 25, 2026.
- The National Pulse, "The Biden DOJ and Jack Smith 'Arctic Frost' Scandal Just Got a Lot Worse," The National Pulse, February 26, 2026.
- Axios, "Wiles 'in shock' over FBI phone-record subpoena," Axios, February 26, 2026.
- Washington Examiner, "Obama's DOJ built the 'weaponization' Democrats now warn about, experts say," Washington Examiner, November 13, 2025.
