The lights were barely off at Jack Smith’s office before the cockroaches started scattering — and boy, did Kash Patel just flip the switch.

Ten FBI officials. Fired. Gone. Cleaned out like last week’s leftovers. Their crime? Secretly subpoenaing the phone records of Patel himself and White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles back when they were just private citizens minding their own business. All part of Smith’s obsessive, taxpayer-funded crusade to “get Trump” by any means necessary.

And when I say any means, I mean any means.

The Spying Nobody Was Supposed to Find

Here’s what went down. Between 2022 and 2023, while Biden was still warming the Oval Office chair, FBI agents grabbed what are called “toll records” on Patel and Wiles. That’s a fancy way of saying they tracked who these two were calling, when they called, and how long they talked — all to build a case against Trump through his associates. Reuters reported Patel’s claims that the bureau dug up this evidence buried in their own files.

But here’s where it gets stupid.

The agents didn’t just spy on private citizens for political purposes. They classified the records as “prohibited” so nobody could easily find them. That’s not an oops. That’s not a filing error. That’s a cover-up with a bow on it. These bureaucrats knew exactly what they were doing, and they tried to bury the receipts like a teenager hiding a dented fender.

Think about what that means for a second. Unelected federal agents decided that your proximity to a political candidate — a former president, no less — was enough justification to put you under surveillance. Then they hid it. That’s not law enforcement. That’s a political hit squad with badges.

Attorney-Client Privilege? Never Heard of It.

And it gets worse. Smith’s little crew may have torched one of the most sacred principles in American law: attorney-client privilege. Tucked away in the Biden-era FBI files was a recorded phone call between Wiles and her own lawyer from 2023.

FBI officials claimed the attorney consented to the recording. Wiles says that’s a lie. Her attorney says that’s a lie. The lawyer told Axios he would never have had a recorded call without Wiles knowing — because that’s a one-way ticket to losing your law license.

So either the FBI is telling the truth and a seasoned attorney committed career suicide for no reason, or the feds fabricated consent to justify recording a privileged conversation. I’ll let you do the math on that one.

Trump Brought the Bulldozer

This is exactly why Trump put Kash Patel at the FBI. Not to play nice with the Beltway cocktail circuit. Not to “restore norms” — the same norms that gave us warrantless spying on American citizens. Trump didn’t tiptoe around this problem. He installed someone willing to rip the floorboards up and show the country what’s been crawling underneath.

Patel firing those ten agents? That’s a good start. But it’s only a start.

The FBI needs to release every single file connected to this operation. Every subpoena, every classified record, every internal email where someone decided that surveilling Trump’s allies was a legitimate use of federal power. The American people paid for this investigation. They deserve to see the whole ugly picture.

If this can happen to the current FBI Director and the White House Chief of Staff — two people now at the highest levels of government — it can happen to you. Your neighbor. Your pastor. Anyone who backs the wrong candidate in the eyes of unaccountable bureaucrats who fancy themselves Judge Dredd in a government-issue polo shirt.

The deep state isn’t some conspiracy theory your uncle rants about on Thanksgiving. It’s ten FBI agents who spied on private citizens, hid the evidence, possibly violated attorney-client privilege, and would still be collecting government paychecks if Kash Patel hadn’t dragged their operation into the daylight.

The swamp doesn’t drain itself. Somebody has to pull the plug — and this week, somebody finally did.