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'All the details' to impeach Kash Patel quietly slipped into lawsuit by ex-FBI agents

Nine FBI agents and analysts fired by FBI Director Kash Patel slipped “all the details” Congress might need to impeach him into their wrongful-firing lawsuit, an analysis argues. Marcy Wheeler, a national security journalist who runs the emptywheel blog, wrote Friday that the complaint “provides all the details Congress might need to substantiate proof…

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