Patel Tells HPSCI Fired FBI Agents Violated Ethics Rules, Declines to Specify

FBI Director Patel testified before HPSCI that agents fired from CI-12 were dismissed for ethics violations, but declined to specify the violations citing pending litigation. Reps. Magaziner and Thompson pressed Patel on whether the firings degraded Iran expertise during active conflict. Patel acknowledged he knew about the administration's Iran strike plans more than a month before the CI-12 firings.