FBI Removed Employees Who Work on Classified Records Case Against President

On February 25, 2026, according to CNN, FBI Director Kash Patel ordered the removal of at least ten FBI agents, analysts, and support staff who had worked on the investigation into the retention of classified records at the President's Mar-a-Lago residence; additional employees on the same team were notified the following day, bringing the reported total to roughly a dozen over two days. The removals followed Patel's public statement that investigators had earlier obtained his own telephone toll records and those of the White House Chief of Staff during the underlying investigations. The FBI Agents Association characterized the removals as terminations carried out without the due-process protections owed to the affected employees. The action continued a pattern of personnel removals at the Bureau affecting employees who had worked on investigations of the President or his appointees.