It is outrageous and deeply alarming that the previous FBI leadership secretly subpoenaed my own phone records - along with those of now-White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles - using flimsy pretexts and burying the entire process in prohibited case files designed to evade all oversight.
Patel called the action outrageous and deeply alarming, claiming the agency used flimsy pretexts and attempted to evade all oversight on the subpoenas. His disclosure of the discovery on Wednesday in a statement to Reuters came mere hours before multiple sources told CNN, CBS, and Reuters that Patel had fired the FBI officials.