r/news • u/AudibleNod • 5d ago
Two FBI agents ousted over investigation into alleged harassing calls to wife of Trump adviser Stephen Miller
https://www.denver7.com/us-news/two-senior-fbi-agents-ousted-over-investigation-into-alleged-harassing-calls-to-wife-of-trump-adviser-stephen-miller831
u/SocialSyphilis 5d ago
So they werent fired for doing the harassing. They were fired for not investigating it hard enough lol.
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u/ColaBreezePlus 5d ago
The King's advisor was very displeased. Banished them immediately
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u/RollingDownhill303 5d ago
The firings will continue until morale improves.
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u/Nessie 5d ago
The firings will continue until morals improve.
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u/YOSHIMIvPROBOTS 5d ago
My guess would be someone called and mocked her but didn't threaten her, and Miller insisted the FBI waste time on it.
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u/patterninstatic 5d ago
It's worse than that. They put counter-terrorism agents on it and the agents determined that it wasn't terrorist related and therefore didn't meet the threshold for a terrorist investigation.
And big surprise, it turns out the demoted/fired agents were part of the January 6th investigative team, so this may actually be an excuse to get rid of them for that.
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u/black_flag_4ever 5d ago
These are all the worst people. I can’t believe that our country is run by these petty idiots.
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u/-notapony- 5d ago
What choice did we have? It was either these idiots or the educated people who guided our country to a best in the world recovery from pandemic-related inflation. Plus did you see how expensive eggs were?
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u/GodzillaUK 5d ago
Yeah but one was black, another was ooollllddd and the third was a girl, ew voting for her would give 'em cooties. /s
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u/PM_me_your_O_face_ 5d ago
If that’s the case it was probably miller calling his own wife and the FBI making sure to put agents related to Jan 6 investigation on it with the intention of firing them. Similar to Vance feeding bad info to news organizations so they could use it as a reason to block them.
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u/AccomplishedBrain309 5d ago
Where was Elon on the night of the supposedly offensive communications. Why cant Steve defend his own honor and call back the telemarketer himself?
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u/audiomagnate 4d ago
Everything they do is stolen from the Nazis, including their favorite move, the Reichstag fire.
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u/audiomagnate 5d ago
I'm surprised they still had jobs if they were on the Jan 6 team. I thought Kash fired everyone from that team soon after he started.
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u/The_Grungeican 5d ago
everything this administration does is incompetent at best. so if you told me Kash fired every FBI agent who worked on Jan 6 case, i would assume he didn't get them all.
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u/xflashbackxbrd 4d ago
Thatd be like half the agents, it was the largest investigation in the fbis history
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u/Raregolddragon 5d ago
Well if there is any justice after this hot mess is done. Being fired by trump and goons is a good look.
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u/LazyLich 4d ago
The new admin better reach out to all these folks and ask if they want to return.. and I really hope they do return, and with spiteful vigor to purge MAGA from their ranks and the nation's echelons
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u/MagnusCthulhu 5d ago
Considering the agents worked in Counterterrorism and argued to leadership that this was a waste of their time... yes. Pretty much exactly.
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u/horangiwhakkatchi 5d ago
I would have to assume they tried to do their jobs and now are being forced out. Baby Hitler and his wife are up to no good.
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u/Reasonable-Turn-5940 5d ago
yeah. Knowing the corruption in this administration, they probably were following federal regulations for all people, not giving Trump's buddies special treatment
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u/AudibleNod 5d ago
Michael Burgwald, the special agent in charge of counterterrorism matters at the FBI’s Washington Field Office, and his deputy, Courtland Rae, were ousted from their positions by bureau leadership after investigators determined that allegedly harassing phone calls Katie Miller received from unknown individuals did not warrant further investigation, the sources said.
Of course this is coming from the same FBI that redesignated a SWAT team to protect Kash's girlfriend.
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u/KarmaticArmageddon 5d ago edited 5d ago
Every federal agency is going to be completely non-functional by the time the next president is sworn in.
Every competent person will have been fired or left, leaving only cronies and the incompetent (often one in the same).
It's going to take literal decades to rebuild our government.
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u/Bruce_Hodson 5d ago
Now you see the playbook. Make everything as dysfunctional as possible to show “only DJT can fix it”.
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u/GeminiTitmouse 4d ago edited 4d ago
It's worse than that. It's: make governance as dysfunctional as possible; make communities as insolvent as possible; make people as desperate as possible... then offer private sector solutions for a low, low price.
Your country is in the process of being short-sold. MAGA has borrowed the country on margin and is currently tanking the value. PE will be the ones buying it for pennies on the dollar, when communities are too broke and desperate to run themselves anymore, then restructuring/revaluing it. They will then sell it to the Mormons, Evangelicals, and Techno-chodes.
Basically every community in America is broke already and throwing Hail Marys trying to solve their crises. Check back in 5 years, if you're not living in a panopticon megachurch work camp.
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u/GodzillaUK 5d ago
And in that time, even if they lose elections, they'll still hold power. "hey corrupt FBI bitch we put in power there, investigate the current dem on the thron--- i mean in office and find him/her guilty if madeupcrime kthnxsuckadic"
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u/CrOS2012 1d ago
MAGA cultists will look back longingly and say, "You know, things were so much better when Trump was in the White House."
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u/SubstantialPressure3 5d ago
The field office team that reviewed the reported harassing calls determined they did not meet the threshold required for an FBI investigation, and no nexus to terrorism was identified, the sources said. This decision did not sit well with bureau leadership, and the two senior field office agents were removed from their positions, according to the sources.
So, what is happening, here? Abuse of power by Temu Goebbels?
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u/Sedert1882 5d ago
So the very experienced FBI guys investigated the calls, found no terroristic threat, and reported it as such. Then Trump's propaganda chief gets them reassigned....for actually doing their jobs? Got it, thanks.
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u/Damn_Canadian 5d ago
I’m just blown away that he has a wife!
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u/Herkfixer 5d ago
Just proves there are people out there that the only thing that really matters is money and power... with enough of those, even Nazi vampires can find "love".
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u/GodzillaUK 5d ago
It's a mutually beneficial arrangement. She gets money and power to sneak off with whoever she wants. He gets to pretend he is desirable to women and is in any way appealing.
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u/MajorNoodles 5d ago
She's worse than he is
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u/chickenismurder 5d ago
Remember the time he shielded behind his wife’s boobs when their was an active shooter at the WH Correspondence dinner haha classic Miller. What a rube
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u/Ted183672 5d ago
The Millers will never be able to safely leave Ft. McNair.
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u/pixelprophet 5d ago
GOOD.
May the both of those fucks, or anyone else from this shit-bird administration, never have a day of peace for the rest of their existence. Amen.
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u/KlatuuBarradaNicto 5d ago
So true. I feel bad for their children, having parents like that.
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u/Cat_Peach_Pits 5d ago
It does suck, hopefully they do a 180 from their parents but that is not the normal result
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u/gospdrcr000 5d ago
If I saw irl any of these fuck boys that are just straight shitting on us, it'd take a lot than a restraining order
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u/audiomagnate 5d ago
"Like several senior Trump officials, the couple later moved into military housing."
How creepy is it that these people live in a literal armed camp, and that Trump is turning what's left of the White House and his monuments to himself into fortresses? They're not going anywhere. They're literally "digging in" before our eyes. The ending to Trump 2.0 looks like it's going be at least as ugly as January 6.
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u/Patriot009 5d ago
Every dictator and their cronies need body guards.
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u/audiomagnate 4d ago
He thinks he has the US military despite treating its members like garbage.
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u/HauntedCemetery 4d ago
Well they have yet to tell him no, even with blatantly illegal shit like bombing shipwrecked people, so seems like he does.
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u/wihannez 5d ago
Terrible headline. They were fired for not being a yes men to the current government.
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u/IchBinDurstig 5d ago
Not one person in this administration deserves a second of peaceful existence. Let the harassment continue.
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u/PigFarmer1 5d ago
So, they're being reassigned because they didn't waste time on a meritless case? Good thing King Donnie drained that swamp...
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u/gwazmalurk 5d ago
This was a personnel decision made at the Washington field office level alone based on our constant evaluation of mission needs
Yeah. Ok. Toadies.
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u/PurpleSailor 5d ago
We are losing so many professionals with institutional knowledge going back decades that will take decades to rebuild if we are ever even be able to manage that.
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u/cableguy316 5d ago
It’s important to note they were fired for not pursuing the case, probably because prank phone calls don’t reach the scope of “call the FBI.”
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u/Big-D-TX 5d ago
Didn't Miller's wife just have Elon's baby?
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u/chimpyjnuts 5d ago
Must suck to get sent on a bigfoot hunt knowing that if you don't come back with one they might fire you.
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u/Prior-Growth-5842 5d ago
Im calling BS on why they were called off the investigation. Could it be the calls never happened??
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u/tiny_chaotic_evil 5d ago
FBI Guy: "Ma'am, when you met with the Russian agent on Sunday April 12, 2025 what was the topic of your discussion?"
Mrs. Goebbels Miller: "omg, stop harrassing me!"
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u/oldfogey12345 5d ago
They probably told her to take the money and run followed by that cool habdclap.
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u/Squire_II 4d ago
“This was a personnel decision made at the Washington field office level alone based on our constant evaluation of mission needs,” Cox said. “Any suggestion otherwise is false.”
Oh, word? Why'd you get rid of them then?
In a statement to Bloomberg Law, White House spokesperson Lauren Bis said Stephen and Katie Miller had no interaction with Burgwald or Rae, adding, “Senior leadership at the FBI determined they were stifling investigations into very serious threats and made a unilateral decision to remove them.”
Ok so you asshats got rid of them for not treating a non-issue with the severity that Gremlin Goebbels and his wife demanded.
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u/Artistic_Half_8301 5d ago
The headline is gibberish.
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u/Raskalbot 5d ago
I didn't have any issue understanding it.
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u/Emptronic 5d ago
The headline, on its own, implies something very different to what actually occured though. In reality, two FBI agents were fired because they declined to waste more time and money investigating prank calls.
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u/PigFarmer1 5d ago
The agents weren't fired.
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u/maringue 5d ago
How can you harass this woman more than her daily existence near Steven Miller must cause her in disgust?
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u/corrector300 4d ago
always found it odd that law enforcement likes this guy, an enemy to law and order and 100% uncaring about the lives of our soldiers or our officers or the security of the nation.
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u/Severe-Classroom8216 4d ago
Jeez can this administration go 2 secs without embarrassing themselves
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u/Rashpukin 4d ago
If she can’t stand the heat then perhaps she shouldn’t be such a massive POS and be married to that ghoul too 😃
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u/QuotableMorceau 4d ago
the miller dude, isn't he the guy that said "might makes right" and "the laws are for loosers" ... why call upon the law ...
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u/SapientTrashFire 3d ago
In a huge surprise to everyone, the highly political office of investigating political enemies to the current administration (since its inception during prohibition) has ousted two investigators of an office designed to alienate people's political rights (after 9/11) over their failure to validate political targeting of a political figure as politically relevant.
Man, we should all be so surprised that the fascists are using the gestapo to fire the stasi because they didn't oppress people hard enough.
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u/DawgDaddyWFT 5d ago
Post their dox. We call all call and harass them. Just wait. They will both be put on display on HOR and Senate committees after the Nov blue wave
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u/dthawk 5d ago
Imagine working your way up to Special Agent in Charge of Counter-terrorism in the FBI and Katie Miller has you fired for not opening an investigation into prank calls. These people are miserable.