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#KashPatel gutted #FBI counterintelligence team tasked with tracking Iranian threats days before #US strikes, sources say

Just days before the US launched a major military operation in #Iran, Patel fired a dozen agents & staff members from a #counterintelligence unit tasked with monitoring #threats from Iran, acc/to 2 sources….

They were ousted for a simple reason: Each was involved in the investigation of #Trump’s alleged retention of #ClassifiedDocuments.

https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/03/politics/patel-fbi-national-security-division-firings-iran

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Kash Patel gutted FBI counterintelligence team tasked with tracking Iranian threats days before US strikes, sources say | CNN Politics

Just days before the United States launched a major military operation in Iran, FBI Director Kash Patel fired a dozen agents and staff members from a counterintelligence unit tasked with monitoring threats from Iran, according to two sources familiar with the matter.

Nonilex

@Nonilex@masto.ai · 15 hours ago

As a result, #KashPatel hamstrung the Washington, DC-based #FBI #counterintelligence unit, known as CI-12, which handles cases ranging from mishandling of classified documents to tracking foreign #spies operating on #US soil.

The dismissals have added to concern inside the #DOJ & FBI that counterterrorism & #intelligence investigations in the wake of the #military operation in #Iran could be hampered by a mass exodus of #NationalSecurity experts, acc/to multiple sources.

#law #Trump #idiocracy

Nonilex

@Nonilex@masto.ai · 15 hours ago

And like the CI-12 unit, several senior
officials were ousted or reassigned because of their involvement in #Trump related investigations, sources say. The removals have cost the #DOJ & #FBI decades of combined experience in identifying the types of #threats that sources say could appear in the wake of Operation Epic Fury.

#law #idiocracy #US #Iran #war #Trump #warmonger #RegimeChange #law #Congress #WarPowers #geopolitics #MiddleEast

Nonilex

@Nonilex@masto.ai · 15 hours ago

In Trump’s first term, CI-12 was instrumental in tracking potential #threats from the #Iran regime in retaliation for the 2020 drone strike that “killed” [assassinated] Gen. Qasem #Soleimani, then-leader of Iran’s #IRGC Quds Force.

Iran-backed actors have since been charged with plots to #assassinate US officials that Iran has blamed for Soleimani’s death, including #Trump, fmr Secy of State #MikePompeo & fmr #NationalSecurity adviser #JohnBolton.

#law #idiocracy #war #geopolitics #MiddleEast

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