华盛顿——一位前联邦调查局主管在最新一份举报材料中称，特朗普政府曾施压联邦调查局对洛杉矶的抗议者展开调查，此举违反了宪法规定及该局的政策。吉尔·菲尔兹曾是联邦调查局洛杉矶分局的情报分析主管，她就去年年初联邦政府针对联邦大楼周边及居民区内反移民执法局抗议活动的应对措施，向参议院司法委员会领导人提交了正式举报。
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration pushed the FBI to investigate Los Angeles protesters in violation of their constitutional rights and the bureau’s policies, a former FBI supervisor alleges in a new whistleblower complaint. Jill Fields, a former supervisory intelligence analyst in the FBI’s Los Angeles Field Office, made a formal whistleblower complaint to Senate Judiciary Committee leaders over the federal response to anti-ICE protest activity around federal buildings, as well as in a residential area, early last year.
菲尔兹的律师在致议员们的信中称，她请求国会及司法部的监察机构对这些指控展开调查。她指出，相关举措侵犯了民众行使言论自由与和平集会权利的第一修正案权利。菲尔兹称，时任代理司法部副部长埃米尔·博夫曾指示洛杉矶分局负责人对联邦大楼外的抗议活动展开调查，尽管这些活动属于受法律保护的言论表达行为。
Fields asked Congress and the Justice Department’s watchdog to investigate the allegations, her attorneys said in a letter to lawmakers. She says they violated the First Amendment right to free speech and to peaceably assemble. Fields says Emil Bove, then the acting deputy attorney general, told the head of the field office to open an investigation into activities outside the federal building even though, she says, the activities were protected free speech.
此外，她还称白宫曾向联邦调查局局长卡什·帕特尔下达指令，要求其调查一群在移民执法行动期间使用扩音器发声的抗议者；而此前联邦调查局人员已对这些人的行为进行过评估，并决定不展开调查。据信函内容，唐纳德·特朗普总统曾观看一段视频，视频中抗议者使用扩音器向居民通报移民执法相关信息、告知其法律权利，并劝导他们除非看到移民执法人员出示司法搜查令，否则切勿开门。
Separately, she says the White House gave a directive to FBI Director Kash Patel to investigate a group of protesters using megaphones during immigration enforcement operations after FBI agents had conducted a check into the conduct and declined to open an investigation. President Donald Trump had viewed a video of people using megaphones to alert residents about immigration activities, advise them of their legal rights and encourage them not to open their doors unless immigration enforcement agents had signed judicial warrants, according to the letter.
举报材料还称，一名姓名被隐去的人士告诉菲尔兹，之所以要展开调查，是因为“总统希望进行这项调查”。特朗普政府启动移民执法行动后，洛杉矶各地相继出现了抗议活动。
A person whose name is redacted in the complaint told Fields that an investigation would be opened because “the President wants this investigation,” Fields’ whistleblower complaint says. The protests were staged across Los Angeles after the Trump administration launched an immigration enforcement operation.
菲尔兹称，联邦调查局洛杉矶分局调走了正在负责打击贩毒集团案件的特工，只为满足上级的要求——用一位主管的话来说，就是要营造出“给总统做做样子”的效果。当年晚些时候，随着全国多地移民数量激增，该地区爆发了大规模抗议活动。联邦调查局与司法部并未立即回应置评请求。此前司法部官员曾表示，政府工作人员必须服从特朗普政府的优先事项。
Fields said the FBI’s Los Angeles office had pulled agents off active cartel cases to satisfy what a supervisor described as “optics” designed to “make a show for the president.”The area would be the scene of major protests later in the year during an immigration surge in cities nationwide. The FBI and the Justice Department didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment. Justice Department officials have previously said government workers need to follow the Trump administration’s priorities.
上周，司法部高层针对那些向媒体谈及移民执法力度加大对法庭工作造成影响的联邦法官提起了行政投诉。菲尔兹称，上级要求不得将相关指令以书面形式记录，因此许多指示都是通过面对面会议传达的。由于她拒绝执行相关命令，便被排除在相关工作之外，因此并不清楚是否启动了正式调查。根据投诉内容，菲尔兹曾向负责隐私与公民自由事务的联邦调查局高级官员咨询，后者对此次调查深感不满，随后告知菲尔兹自己打算辞职。
Last week, Justice Department leaders filed an administrative complaint about federal judges who made remarks to the media about the impact the surge in immigration enforcement had on their courtrooms. Fields says supervisors were told not to put things in writing, so many of the directives came in face-to-face meetings. She says she didn’t know whether any formal investigation was opened because she was excluded once she refused to participate. Fields consulted with a senior FBI official in charge of privacy and civil liberties matters, who expressed dismay about the investigation and subsequently told Fields she planned to resign, according to the complaint.
菲尔兹也在得知自己将被免去三个项目的负责人职务后辞去了联邦调查局的工作；她认为这一决定是对她进行内部举报行为的报复。投诉指出，联邦调查局的上述行为“在工作人员中造成了寒蝉效应”，“向其他员工传递出这样一个信号：提出涉及宪法或法律层面的担忧可能会招致职业上的不良后果”。该行为“对宪法赋予的权利以及联邦调查局的诚信度与高效运作产生了严重影响”。
Fields, too, resigned from the bureau, after she was informed that she would be removed from heading three programs, a decision she believes constituted retaliation for making protected internal disclosures. The FBI’s actions, according to the letter, “created a chilling effect within the workforce” and “signaled to other employees that raising constitutional or legal concerns could carry professional consequences.”The conduct “had significant consequences for constitutional rights, and the integrity and effective operation of the FBI,” according to the complaint.
自特朗普重新就任总统以来，数百名联邦调查局特工及司法部律师纷纷辞职或被解雇，尤其是那些曾参与调查特朗普的人。前司法部工作人员则担忧，美国最高执法机构如今正在按总统的意图行事。加利福尼亚州民主党参议员亚历克斯·帕迪利亚对NBC新闻表示，菲尔兹的爆料再次印证了特朗普正将司法部用作打击其所谓政治对手的工具。
Hundreds of FBI agents and Justice Department attorneys have resigned or been fired since Trump returned to office, particularly those who were involved in investigating him, and former Justice Department employees have expressed concerns that the nation’s top law enforcement agency is doing the bidding of the president. Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Calif., told NBC News that Fields’ disclosure is another instance of Trump’s weaponizing the Justice Department to go after his perceived political enemies. Padilla, who himself was forcibly removed from a news conference featuring then-Homeland Security Kristi Noem in June 2025, is the ranking member of the Judiciary subcommittee on immigration, citizenship and border safety.
帕迪利亚本人曾在2025年6月的一场新闻发布会上被强行带离现场，当时出席发布会的是时任国土安全部部长克里斯蒂·诺姆。他目前担任司法委员会下属移民、公民身份与边境安全小组委员会的资深成员。帕迪利亚问道：“在存在诸多合法性与合宪性争议的情况下，究竟还有多少调查项目是因白宫施加的政治压力而启动的？”
“How many more of these investigations have been opened up because of political pressure coming from the White House, despite the questions and concerns about legality and constitutionality?”Padilla said. He acknowledged that the Trump administration’s attacks on civil service protections through unilateral firings, as well as the mass firings of internal government watchdogs, had an impact on the legislative branch’s ability to conduct oversight.
他承认，特朗普政府通过单方面解雇手段削弱公务员保护机制，并大规模解雇政府内部监督人员，这严重影响了立法机构履行监督职能的能力。“这将是一个巨大的挑战，但首先需要有正直、有操守的专业人士站出来，向我们说明实际情况以及其中存在的问题，”帕迪利亚说道，“我们也希望其他人能受到鼓舞，效仿他们的做法。”
“That’s going to be a significant challenge, but it begins with good, honorable professionals being willing to come forward and tell us what’s going on and what’s wrong with what’s going on,” Padilla said. “We’re hoping others may be inspired, as well.”
菲尔兹的代理律师为非营利组织“政府问责项目”以及前司法部国家安全处高级官员大卫·劳夫曼。
Fields was represented by the nonprofit Government Accountability Project and David Laufman, a former top official in the Justice Department’s National Security Section.