Ex-FBI agents say Grassley played improper role in their firings

FBI veterans point finger at GOP senator Grassley in new lawsuits

Since returning to the White House on January 20, 2025, President Donald Trump has made a concerted effort to give the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and the FBI an ultra-MAGA makeover — including choosing far-right conspiracy theorist Kash Patel for FBI director. Many non-MAGA veterans of the FBI have either left the agency or been fired, and some of them are now pointing the finger at Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iow…

NEWS HEADLINES: Lawsuit alleges GOP Sen. Grassley and FBI leadership orchestrated political purge of career agents – One America News Network

(L) Committee chairman US Senator Chuck Grassley on February 3, 2026. (Photo by ROBERTO SCHMIDT / AFP via Getty Images) / (Background) A crest of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (Photo via: MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images) OAN Staff Brooke Mallory6:14 PM – Thursday, May 7, 2026 A group of disgruntled former FBI agents have filed a federal class-action lawsuit alleging that Iowa GOP Senator Chuck Grassley and high-ranking officials within th…

Lawsuit alleges GOP Sen. Grassley and FBI leadership orchestrated political purge of career agents

A group of disgruntled former FBI agents have filed a federal class-action lawsuit alleging that Iowa GOP Senator Chuck Grassley and high-ranking officials within the FBI, including Director Kash Patel, engaged in an "improper and retaliatory" campaign to fire career employees.

'Past his prime' GOP senator Grassley caught up in FBI lawsuit: report

Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley (R), the powerful chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, has been implicated in a lawsuit filed by two FBI agents who were terminated by Director Kash Patel for their work on special counsel Jack Smith's investigation of Donald Trump.According to reporting from The Hill, t...

Ex-FBI agents say Sen. Grassley played improper role in their firings

The suits allege the agents were wrongfully terminated based solely on their assignment to former special counsel Jack Smith’s team.

Ex-FBI agents say Grassley played improper role in their firings

Several former FBI agents are arguing Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) played a significant role in their firings, removals that followed his release of a number of unredacted materials about the criminal investigation into President Trump. That assertion was made in two separate lawsuits against the FBI that don’t name Grassley as a...