Three former FBI special agents who worked criminal cases against President Donald Trump and were then ousted by the administration have filed a lawsuit over their “illegal” firings, citing as evidence comments that the No. 2 official at the Justice Department made at a conservative conference last week.
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, who formerly served as Trump’s personal attorney, said last week at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) that FBI Director Kash Patel had “cleaned house” and that there “isn’t a single man or woman with a gun, federal agent, still in that organization that had anything to do with the prosecution of President Trump.”
Former agents Michelle Ball, Jamie Garman and Blaire Toleman filed the lawsuit that seeks class-action status. It names Patel and Attorney General Pam Bondi and argues the agents “faithfully served” the country but were targeted by a “retribution” campaign that was “timed to drive
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