FBI obtained Kash Patel’s phone records while he was a private citizen in 2022

The FBI obtained phone records for its now-director Kash Patel during the Biden administration in 2022, while he was a private citizen, two sources confirmed to Just The News on Wednesday.The subpoena for the phone records were issued as part of an investigation into President Donald Trump’s alleged mishandling of classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida. 
It also obtained White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles’ phone records in 2023. 
Patel told Reuters that the bureau’s subpoenas were an example of federal overreach by unelected officials.
“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.

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