FBI agents and analysts fired for their roles in the Trump classified files investigation sue to get their jobs back

FBI employees fired for their roles in the investigation of President Trump’s retention of classified documents at his Florida estate are suing to get their jobs back. WASHINGTON (AP) — FBI employees fired for their roles in the investigation of President Donald Trump's retention of classified documents at his Florida estate sued on Thursday to get their jobs back, calling their terminations unlawful acts of “political retribution.” But the agents deny that claim in the lawsuit, noting that between them they had more than a century of distinguished and apolitical FBI service that involved responding to the Boston Marathon bombing, hostage recoveries and the investigation into the 2024 assassination attempt of Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania.Their firings, the lawsuit says, create an “immeasurable loss” to “America's national security."“In return for their service, they were fired because they did their jobs, as they always did to follow the facts and law without bias or favor.

To this administration, this is an offense. To the rest of us, it is heroic,” said a statement from their attorneys, Margaret Donovan, Abbe Lowell and Rebecca Tinio.“This lawsuit will prove their unlawful dismissal and hold the administration accountable for this blatant attack on the rule of law,” the statement added.The Mar-a-Lago investigation produced criminal charges against TrumpThe suit lays out a detailed recitation of the allegations against Trump, describing how he improperly stored dozens of classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida, that he took with him after leaving the White House, showed them off to people not authorized to see them and obstructed FBI efforts to get them back.The investigation resulted in a dramatic 2022 FBI search of Mar-a-Lago that recovered classified records and later produced an indictment in federal court in Florida charging Trump with … WASHINGTON (AP) — FBI agents and analysts fired for their roles in the Trump classified files investigation sue to get their jobs back.