Two former F.B.I. agents fired last year for having worked on an investigation into President Trump’s attempts to overturn his loss in the 2020 election accused senior leaders at the bureau and the Justice Department of targeting them for “political retribution” in a lawsuit filed on Thursday.
In their suit, the agents claimed that the F.B.I. director, Kash Patel, and Attorney General Pam Bondi had retaliated against them for being “politically disloyal to President Trump,” even though they had worked on the election interference case, known as Arctic Frost, only briefly and in largely administrative roles.
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