Three veteran FBI officials, longtime agents, and "experts in preventing terrorism and reducing violent crime" who claim they were swept up in a White House purge and unlawfully fired in August for not showing "political loyalty" to President Donald Trump have filed a lawsuit against Director Kash Patel and U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi, asking a federal judge for immediate reinstatement and not to greenlight the government's degradation of the "country's national security."
The suit , filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, accused Patel, the FBI, Bondi, the DOJ, and the Executive Office of the President of violating the plaintiffs' First and Fifth Amendment rights, and sought reinstatement plus backpay for former Acting Director of the FBI Brian Driscoll, Jr., f