Susie Wiles' own attorney gave Joe Biden's administration permission to spy on her during a 2023 phone call without her knowledge, FBI officials allege.
FBI Director Kash Patel told Reuters that Biden's FBI subpoenaed records of phone calls made by both himself and Wiles during Special Counsel Jack Smith's investigations into 2020 election interference and whether then-former President Donald Trump took classified documents to Mar-a-Lago.
At the time, they were both private citizens working on Trump's reelection campaign, and Patel claims that investigators used 'flimsy pretexts' to get their hands on their call records.
One specific action officials detail is how the Bureau recorded a phone call between now-White House Chief of Staff Wiles and her attorney.
The lawyer consented to the FBI monitoring and recording the call, the officials allege, but says that Wiles was not aware of the silent listener.
The White House did not respond to the Daily Mail's request for comment on whether such a recording took place and if Wiles was aware of the FBI monitoring the call.
It's unclear what was discussed on that call and the White House would not confirm the name of the attorney.
The newly unveiled actions related to Smith's case resulted in the previously reported firing of at least 10 FBI employees this week who worked on the classified documents case.
FBI officials reveal that Susie Wiles' lawyer gave permission for Joe Biden's FBI to monitor and record their phone call with her and without her knowledge
FBI Director Kash Patel told Reuters that Biden's FBI subpoenaed phone records for himself and Wiles as they were private citizens working on Donald Trump's 2024 campaign
Wiles was Trump's 2024 co-campaign manager and now is the White House Chief of Staff
The subpoenas and call record collection were conducted under Special Counsel Jack Smith (pictured) as he investigated Trump for 2020 election interference and whether he took classified documents to Mar-a-Lago
Patel said that the FBI seizing of his phone records and efforts to conceal those actions is just the latest example of government overreach under Biden's presidency.
He claims it took a year for the subpoenas to be uncovered because the way the records were filed made it difficult for the new FBI leadership to find them after taking control of the Bureau last year.
'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 told Reuters.
Patel said the records collection included time periods when Wiles was Trump's co-campaign manager alongside Chris LaCivita. He did not give Reuters an exact time period of when the phone record collection started and ended.
The files were discovered by the FBI with 'Prohibited' categorizations, making them much more difficult to discover on the agency's computer systems.
Smith in 2023 charged Trump with felonies related to his investigation into retaining and moving classified documents from the White House to his Mar-a-Lago residence
The case was dismissed by a federal judge and Smith dropped an appeal when Trump won reelection for a second term in 2024.