Nine agents, intelligence analysts, and staff operations specialists whom FBI Director Kash Patel fired for their roles in the investigation of President Donald Trump’s alleged retention of classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida have sued their former employer.
In a complaint filed in federal court in Washington on Thursday, and seen by The Epoch Times, attorneys Margaret Donovan, Abbe Lowell, and Rebecca Tinio say the decision to fire the nine was an act of “political retribution.”
Patel sent a letter to counterintelligence section chief Jennifer Bacon, the lead plaintiff, on Feb. 25, 2026, in which he summarily dismissed her.
“You have exercised poor judgment and a lack of impartiality in carrying out duties, leading to the political weaponization of the government,” Patel wrote….