WILL CHAMBERLAIN: How the FBI trampled attorney-client privilege to hunt Trump allies
FBI Director reveals Biden Justice Department subpoenaed toll records of Susie Wiles and other Trump associates
By Will Chamberlain Fox News
Published February 26, 2026 10:52am EST
Kash Patel alleges previous FBI leadership obtained his phone records, those belonging to Susie Wiles
Fox News correspondent David Spunt has the latest on the the allegations and the new fraud czar position on 'Special Report.'
FBI Director Kash Patel just dropped a bombshell that should horrify Americans of all political stripes. In 2022 and 2023, Jack Smith, the illicitly-appointed "special counsel," and the Biden Justice Department subpoenaed toll records of calls from Patel and now-White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles. Both were private citizens, and this surveillance continued while Wiles was co-managing President Trump’s election campaign. The FBI even wiretapped a call between Wiles and her lawyer in which the lawyer, knowing of the wiretap, failed to inform Wiles. This conduct is ghastly, and there must be dire legal consequences.
The attorney-client privilege is one of the most sacred legal principles in the Republic. To represent their clients effectively, lawyers need to be able to engage in frank discussions. Clients must feel secure in the knowledge that what they say cannot be used against them. The privilege is so sacred that, in Swidler & Berlin v. United States (1998), the Supreme Court held that it survives the death of a client under the Federal Rules of Evidence.
The lawyer who colluded with the FBI to record his client should be disbarred. Rule 1.6 of the Rules of Professional Conduct in every jurisdiction imposes strict limitations on disclosure of confidential information by attorneys, such as instances where a client is threatening to commit a serious crime. That obviously wouldn’t apply here. Further, Rule 1.7 delineates strict guardrails to safeguard clients from conflicted lawyers. A lawyer cannot represent both sides. That would be antithetical to the adversarial process.
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