九名前FBI员工起诉该局，称他们仅因参与调查前总统唐纳德·特朗普处理机密记录的行为而被解雇。此案涉及前特别检察官杰克·史密斯领导的马阿拉歌文件调查。以下是我们目前了解的情况。诉讼内容据CBS新闻报道，这九名前员工包括在反情报调查中工作的特工、情报分析员和员工运营专家。他们于2026年2月的两天内被解雇，正值美国和以色列准备对伊朗发动军事打击之际。
Nine former FBI employees have sued the bureau, saying they were fired only because they worked on the investigation into President Donald Trump’s handling of classified records. The case is about the Mar-a-Lago documents probe led by former special counsel Jack Smith. Here's what we know. What the lawsuit saysAccording to CBS News, the nine former employees include special agents, intelligence analysts and staff operations specialists who worked on counterintelligence investigations. They were fired over two days in February 2026, just as the United States and Israel were preparing to launch military strikes against Iran.
诉状称：“原告的解雇并非基于任何原因或任何合理理由，仅仅是为了满足总统的个人恩怨。这些解雇未遵循FBI内部的任何调查或纪律程序，原告也未收到任何通知、未获听证机会，也没有申诉的机会。相反，帕特尔声称仅依据‘第二条款’来支持这些解雇。”据CBS新闻报道，这份70页的诉状于周四在美国哥伦比亚特区地方法院提交。
The lawsuit states: “Plaintiffs were unlawfully terminated not for any cause or any legitimate reason, but only to satisfy the President’s personal vendetta. The firings did not follow any internal investigation or disciplinary process within the FBI, and Plaintiffs were not given any notice, a hearing, or an opportunity to appeal. Instead, Patel claimed to rely solely upon ‘Article II’ to support the firings.”According to CBS News, the 70-page lawsuit was filed on Thursday in the US District Court for the District of Columbia.
被告包括FBI、FBI局长卡什·帕特尔、司法部长托德·布兰切以及司法部。据《国会山报》报道，该诉状是代表詹妮弗·贝肯、扎克·费尔德曼、吉尔伯特·格拉纳多斯、凯瑟琳·埃雷拉、哈里森·考夫曼、杰里米·林顿、艾琳·马塔尼克、丹妮尔·雷和瑞秋·瓦卡罗提出的。这九人均曾参与机密文件调查。他们还曾参与其他重大案件，包括波士顿马拉松爆炸案和特朗普在宾夕法尼亚州巴特勒县遇刺未遂案。
It names the FBI, FBI Director Kash Patel, Attorney General Todd Blanche and the Justice Department as defendants. According to The Hill, the lawsuit was filed on behalf of Jennifer Bacon, Zach Feldman, Gilbert Granados, Catherine Herrera, Harrison Kaufman, Jeremy Linton, Erin Matanic, Danielle Ray and Rachel Vaccaro. All nine had worked on the classified documents investigation. They had also worked on other major cases, including the Boston Marathon bombing and the attempted assassination of Trump in Butler County, Pennsylvania.
特朗普白宫舞厅捐赠者名单曝光：苹果、英伟达、谷歌等为3.33亿美元基金的主要捐助者什么是“第二条款”解雇？据《国会山报》所述，第二条款是宪法中规定总统职位设立的部分。
Trump White House ballroom donor list revealed: Apple, Nvidia, Google among top contributors to $333 million fundWhat is an ‘Article II’ firing? As per The Hill, Article II is the part of the Constitution that sets up the presidency.
白宫仅引用总统权力，就解雇了许多人。律师们写道：“‘第二条’解雇是现任政府的发明。其引用代表着试图将所有联邦雇员转变为政治任命官员，并将其继续受雇与其对特朗普总统的（被认为的）个人和政治忠诚挂钩。实际上，‘第二条’理由只不过是解雇（如原告所遭受的）那些具有政治报复性质且违法行为的借口。”
The White House has fired many people while citing only the president’s authority. The attorneys write: “An ‘Article II’ firing is an invention of the current Administration. Its invocation represents an attempt to convert all federal employees into political appointees and condition their continued employment on their (perceived) personal and political loyalty to President Trump. In reality, the ‘Article II’ rationale is nothing more than a pretext for firing like those of the Plaintiffs- that are politically retributive and unlawful.”
该诉讼引用司法部高级官员和总统的公开言论作为政治动机的证据。例如，布兰奇在员工被解雇时担任副司法部长，他表示政府通过解雇与涉及总统的调查相关的员工，在联邦调查局“清理了门户”。
The suit uses public comments from top Justice Department officials and the president as proof of political motive. For example, Blanche, who was deputy attorney general when the employees were let go, said the administration had “cleaned house” at the FBI by firing employees linked to investigations involving the president.
特朗普因詹姆斯·塔拉里科缺席竞选活动称其为“彻头彻尾的骗子”，并敦促德克萨斯州选民投票支持肯·帕克斯顿。他们为何被解雇？诉讼关于帕特尔的说法据CBS新闻报道，联邦调查局反情报部门负责人珍妮弗·贝肯在特工迈尔斯·斯塔尔请求访问与文件调查相关的机密文件后不久得知自己将被解雇，该调查代号为“等离子回声”。诉讼称，斯塔尔是联邦调查局局长卡什·帕特尔的局长顾问团成员。
Trump calls James Talarico a 'total con man' over campaign absence, urges Texans to vote for Ken PaxtonWhy were they fired? What the lawsuit says about PatelAccording to CBS News, Jennifer Bacon, the head of the FBI’s counterintelligence section, learned she was being fired shortly after an agent named Miles Starr requested access to classified files related to the documents investigation, which was codenamed Plasmic Echo. The lawsuit says Starr was part of FBI Director Kash Patel’s Director’s Advisory Team.
诉讼称，斯塔尔于2月23日给助理局长罗曼·罗扎夫斯基发电子邮件，称他紧急需要访问这些文件。诉讼写道：“斯塔尔没有说明他需要什么，但称他奉帕特尔的指示访问案卷。贝肯授予他访问联邦调查局案件管理系统中所有‘等离子回声’文件的权限，唯一特定子文件除外。斯塔尔有权访问的文件包含所有九名原告的姓名。”贝肯和其他员工在不到48小时后被解雇。
The lawsuit says Starr emailed Assistant Director Roman Rozhavsky on February 23, saying he urgently needed access to the files. It states: “Starr did not explain what he needed, but stated that he was on instructions from Patel to access the case file. Bacon granted him access to all Plasmic Echo files in the FBI’s case management system, with the exception of one specific subfile. The files Starr had access to contained the names of all nine Plaintiffs.”Bacon and the other employees were fired less than 48 hours later.
八人在同一天被解雇，第九人在次日被解雇。该诉讼还指出解雇的时间点。当时，帕特尔因视频显示他在意大利与美国男子冰球队狂欢而遭到严厉批评，该冰球队刚刚赢得冬奥会冠军。诉讼称：“这场丑闻对帕特尔来说在政治上极为危险：他因自身行为遭到广泛批评，众多消息来源称，因此他与特朗普总统的关系以及其联邦调查局局长的职位岌岌可危。”
Eight were fired on the same day, while the ninth was fired the following day. The suit also points to the timing of the firings. At that time, Patel was facing heavy criticism over videos showing him partying with the US men’s hockey team in Italy after their Winter Olympics win. The suit says: “This scandal proved politically perilous for Patel: he drew widespread criticism for his conduct, with numerous sources suggesting that his status with President Trump and position as Director of the FBI were in jeopardy as a result.”
据报道，2月25日，帕特尔接受路透社采访。他说，他的电话记录以及白宫幕僚长苏西·怀尔斯的电话记录已作为杰克·史密斯调查的一部分被传唤。据《国会山报》报道，该诉讼称帕特尔在马阿拉哥案中违反禁言令，分享了这些信息，随后解雇了这九名员工。诉讼称：“在文章中，三名未具名的联邦调查局‘消息来源’将原告的解雇与机密文件案中关于电话记录传唤的‘披露’联系起来。”
And as per reports, on February 25, Patel gave an interview to Reuters on February 25. He said his phone records and those of White House chief of staff Susie Wiles had been subpoenaed as part of Jack Smith’s investigations. According to The Hill, the lawsuit alleges that Patel broke a gag order in the Mar-a-Lago case by sharing this information and then fired the nine employees. The lawsuit states: “In the article, three unnamed FBI ‘sources’ linked the Plaintiffs’ terminations to the ‘revelations’ about the phone records subpoenas in the classified documents case.”
机密文件案联邦调查局特工于2022年8月搜查了马阿拉哥，2023年，杰克·史密斯办公室以三十多项罪名起诉了特朗普。联邦法官驳回了指控，称史密斯的任命不合法，特朗普赢得2024年大选后，司法部随后撤回了上诉。
The documents caseFBI agents searched Mar-a-Lago in August 2022, and in 2023 Jack Smith’s office charged Trump on more than three dozen counts. The federal judge dismissed the charges, saying Smith was unlawfully appointed, and the Justice Department later dropped its appeal after Trump won the 2024 election.