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FBI Director Kash Patel Fires CI-12 Agents Over Standards
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- FBI Director Kash Patel fired twelve agents from unit CI-12 days before the February attack on Iran.
- Patel said the dismissed agents failed to meet FBI standards.
- The fired agents had been investigating President Donald Trump’s alleged mishandling of classified documents.
- Sen. Richard Blumenthal expressed astonishment at the dismissal of the Iran-monitoring agents.
- Three agents filed a March class-action suit claiming retaliation for probing Trump’s 2020 election-overturn efforts.