Nine FBI employees fired over the Trump classified documents probe sue to get their jobs back

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Nine former FBI employees involved in the classified documents case against President Donald Trump filed suit on Thursday 15 October against FBI Director Kash Patel and Attorney General Todd Blanche, alleging their firings were 'unlawful', NBC News reported, and CBS News said the nine sued the bureau, saying they were unlawfully terminated for working on the investigation. The FBI agents and analysts, fired for their roles in the investigation of Trump's retention of classified documents at Trump's Florida estate, are suing to get their jobs back, calling their terminations unlawful acts of 'political retribution', The Philadelphia Inquirer reported. The investigation resulted in a 2022 FBI search of Mar-a-Lago that recovered classified records and later produced an indictment in federal court in Florida charging Trump, then a former president, with dozens of felony counts, according to PBS NewsHour.

Latest: Nine former FBI employees involved in the Trump classified documents case sued FBI Director Kash Patel and Attorney General Todd Blanche to get their jobs back, calling their firings unlawful acts of 'political retribution', NBC News and The Philadelphia Inquirer reported.

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