FBI Probe of Kash Patel More Extensive Than Reportedhttps://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/fbi-investigation-kash-patel/2026/03/24/id/1250534/A special counsel investigation that began in 2022 of Kash Patel, who is now the FBI director but was then a private citizen, included demands for more than two years of phone records, text messages and financial information, according to two grand jury subpoenas and nondisclosure orders viewed by Reuters.
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The new documents viewed by Reuters show that the probe into Patel was more extensive than previously reported. In addition to phone, online user names, and text messages, Smith and his team sought mailing and email addresses, billing and IP addresses and bank account information, according to the documents.
The requests included records of calls and texts sent and received but not the contents of those phone calls or messages themselves, the documents show. They also included records of session times and the duration of calls, as well as subscriber information associated with Patel’s accounts.
One subpoena requested records from January 1, 2021 to November 23, 2023. The other was for the time period of October 1, 2020, through February 22, 2023.
Were Smith really investigating whether "President Donald Trump had interfered with the 2020 election", the subpoenas, if actually leagal, could reasonably span from November 2020 through maybe February 2021. Beyond early 2021 was a fishing expedition to learn what future plans Trump might have. BTW, IMO, it is very likely that Smith's shamvestigation was doing a similar fishing expedition into Susie Wiles's doings.
