FBI firings: Iran counter-espionage

did:plc:fdyworh5ncn3yb5pogbzrnt6 · 2026-03-03T11:22:06.019Z

The FBI agents who’ve not yet been fired are so relieved to be put on security detail for Kash Patel’s girlfriend. “Finally”, they’re thinking, “We’re doing a job which is of utmost importance to the country!”

Recurring posts state: "The FBI director fired a dozen members of an FBI counter-espionage team with a speciality in tracking Iran threats." Common comments include "Seems bad," "Seems stupid," and "I mean, only if we were fighting Iran.... Crap."

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3/3/26, 05:20 PM
www.cnn.com/2026/03/03/p.... This means that Patel didn’t know about the attacks, or didn’t care that plots could be missed. Hmmm, he should hire them back, but given how stupid and thuggish this Regime is, they won’t admit they were wrong by bringing them back.
https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/03/p....
3/3/26, 04:52 PM
His prior chief experiences were working for the Trump campaign and bagging groceries at a San Antonio HEB. Now he heads efforts to combat Iranian terrorism, as Kash Patel fires all the FBI Iranian counterintelligence experts.
3/3/26, 04:52 PM
Several days ago, Kash Patel fired FBI agents involved in monitoring Iran terrorist activity. If there is a terrorist attack, the Trump admin will try a Reichstag moment. Regime change is needed, for Israel and the US.
3/3/26, 04:43 PM
"Patel Is Using FBI as His Personal Piggy Bank" There, fixed it
3/3/26, 04:42 PM
And in today’s ongoing idiocracy regime news: Kash Patel gutted FBI counterintelligence team tasked with tracking Iranian threats days before US strikes, sources say. www.cnn.com/2026/03/03/p...
https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/03/p...
3/3/26, 04:29 PM
Days before the U.S. attacked Iran, FBI Director Kash Patel fired a dozen agents and staff from the unit tasked with monitoring threats from Iran. Why? Each was involved in investigating Trump for stealing classified documents and storing them at Mar-a-Lago. www.joemygod.com/2026/03/pate...
https://www.joemygod.com/2026/03/pate...
3/3/26, 03:54 PM
🧐… As a result, Patel hamstrung the Washington, DC-based FBI counterintelligence unit, known as CI-12, which handles cases ranging from mishandling of classified documents to tracking foreign spies operating on US soil. …
3/3/26, 03:40 PM
Kash Patel gutted FBI counterintelligence team tasked with tracking Iranian threats days before US strikes, sources say | CNN Politics www.cnn.com/2026/03/03/p...
https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/03/p...
3/3/26, 03:39 PM
Who benefits from Kash Patel firing elite members of counter intel unit that investigates threats from foreign adversaries? China, Iran, especially Russia- and whose idea was this, really? www.ms.now/news/kash-pa...
https://www.ms.now/news/kash-pa...
3/3/26, 03:36 PM
📣"When FBI Director Kash Patel fired a dozen FBI agents and staff last week for their role in the classified documents investigation of Donald Trump, he targeted an elite counter espionage unit that investigates threats from foreign adversaries and specializes in Iran..." What an idiot❗
3/3/26, 03:35 PM
Yeap, like I said we are sitting ducks. 🦆 The fact they fired the agents should concern us all.
3/3/26, 03:33 PM
Kash Patel gutted FBI counterintelligence team tasked with tracking Iranian threats days before US strikes, CNN sources say www.cnn.com/2026/03/03/p...
https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/03/p...
3/3/26, 03:28 PM
"Kash Patel gutted FBI team tasked with tracking Iranian threats days before US strikes, sources say" 😳😳😳 l.smartnews.com/p-7gMmtGSI/9...
3/3/26, 03:14 PM
Unfortunately for us, Iran has some of the best potato personnel in the world. Good chance they can seriously disrupt our grid, cell towers, and internet access. Meanwhile, Kash Patel has fired many of the FBI personnel tasked with combating just that. We r led by fools.
3/3/26, 03:11 PM
This makes Kash Patel an accomplice to murder.
3/3/26, 03:02 PM
Can someone tell Graham Patel has fired CI-12 members that keep us safe? @klobuchar.senate.gov @carolleonnig.bsky.social @judiciarydems.senate.gov
3/3/26, 02:55 PM
Kash Patel fired a dozen FBI agents and staff last week for their role in the classified documents investigation of Trump, he targeted an elite counter espionage unit that investigates threats from foreign adversaries and specializes in Iran.
3/3/26, 02:53 PM
Kash Patel gutted FBI counterintelligence team tasked with tracking Iranian threats days were ousted for a simple reason: Each was involved in the investigation of President Donald Trump's alleged retention of classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate. www.cnn.com/2026/03/03/p...
https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/03/p...
Seems bad: The FBI director fired a dozen members of an FBI counter-espionage team with a speciality in tracking Iran t...
"Seems bad: The FBI director fired a dozen members of an FBI counter-espionage team with a speciality in tracking Iran threats."
3/3/26, 02:36 PM
Seems stupid.
3/3/26, 02:35 PM
Read "Kash Patel gutted FBI counterintelligence team tasked with tracking Iranian threats days before US strikes, sources say" on SmartNews: l.smartnews.com/p-7gMmtGSI/e...
3/3/26, 02:33 PM
I'm sorry. We need to stop acting like these corrupt fucks are bumbling idiots. I mean, they are imbeciles no doubt. But, their actions are done on purpose. They knew they were striking Iran way before it happened. Patel absolutely knew what he was doing because he was told to do it. For this reason
3/3/26, 02:32 PM
Let’s not forget that Patel fired 12 seasoned FBI agents from the counterterrorism unit two days before Trump began bombing Iran. So counterterrorism in America is threadbare. Heads up.
Seems bad: The FBI director fired a dozen members of an FBI counter-espionage team with a speciality in tracking Iran t...
"Seems bad: The FBI director fired a dozen members of an FBI counter-espionage team with a speciality in tracking Iran threats."
3/3/26, 02:31 PM
he preferred those optics to them all quitting
3/3/26, 02:31 PM
We are also less safe at home now thanks to kooky eyed kash eliminating safeguards from our FBI. Getting rid of CI officers with decades of experience is probably a death blow for US citizens.
3/3/26, 02:26 PM
Why did Patel fire FBI agents who specialized in tracking domestic terrorist threats on behalf of Iran? You need professionals to run these agencies, right?
3/3/26, 02:17 PM
About the intelligence agencies.The cross eyed guy fired a bunch of the unit in the FBI that protect us from the Iranians.On the bright side the Iranians mostly target our government leaders.
3/3/26, 01:47 PM
Patel: a "Useless useful idiot"
3/3/26, 01:47 PM
Makes one wonder, who are our own enemies, like Kash Patel ?
Seems bad: The FBI director fired a dozen members of an FBI counter-espionage team with a speciality in tracking Iran t...
"Seems bad: The FBI director fired a dozen members of an FBI counter-espionage team with a speciality in tracking Iran threats."
3/3/26, 01:18 PM
I mean, only if we were fighting Iran.... Crap
3/3/26, 01:18 PM
Kash Patel fires more FBI agents. How many from CI 12?
3/3/26, 01:17 PM
The question she should be asked was why did Patel fire the people that know how to investigate terrorists all get fired! Especially the group that focused on Iran.
Seems bad: The FBI director fired a dozen members of an FBI counter-espionage team with a speciality in tracking Iran t...
"Seems bad: The FBI director fired a dozen members of an FBI counter-espionage team with a speciality in tracking Iran threats."
3/3/26, 01:13 PM
As with everything with this regime: oops. Bunch of two-bit punks.
3/3/26, 01:13 PM
Maddow had a big piece on this last night. Just what are they doing, oh I know, placing retribution over being smart. So the FBI gets rid of expertise in Iran spying. Maybe they just do not care if Iran brings home the fight to the US soil. Sure looks that way. www.ms.now/news/kash-pa...
https://www.ms.now/news/kash-pa...
3/3/26, 12:58 PM
Seems bad: The FBI director fired a dozen members of an FBI counter-espionage team with a speciality in tracking Iran threats.
3/3/26, 12:57 PM
www.thedailybeast.com/fbi-director.... “But Patel’s revenge strike on the FBI wound up decimating the Bureau’s global espionage unit known as CI-12, according to a report by MS NOW citing more than six sources with knowledge of the firings.”
https://www.thedailybeast.com/fbi-director....
3/3/26, 12:44 PM
FBI 'coincidentally' fires its Iran counter-intel experts www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
3/3/26, 12:36 PM
TRUMP appointed 23-year-old Thomas Fugate an ex-gardener & grocery clerk with no qualifications, no experience & no national security background as head of the Anti-Terrorism Program of the U.S.
3/3/26, 12:26 PM
Kristi Noem removed experienced US head of potatosecurity & replaced with her incompetent staff! Kash Patel fired CI12 - Counter Intelligence- specializing in highest level of counterintelligence! Trump is beholden to countries who rigged/financed his Re-election & handed him a plane!
3/3/26, 11:54 AM
NY Sun:Several of the FBI agents and personnel fired last week were members of a counterintelligence squad that focused on threats that included those involving the Iranian regime.The ouster of a dozen staffers from a counterintelligence unit, known as CI-12,was ordered by FBI Director Kash Patel
3/3/26, 11:22 AM
The FBI agents who’ve not yet been fired are so relieved to be put on security detail for Kash Patel’s girlfriend. “Finally”, they’re thinking, “We’re doing a job which is of utmost importance to the country!”

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