The extent to which the Department of Justice under Merrick Garland was weaponized to serve the Democratic Party is a scandal that is still unraveling. The FBI was particularly turned to partisan ends, a scandal for which there has yet been no accounting.
It has most recently come to light that in 2023, the FBI tapped the phones secretly subpoenaed phone records of both Kash Patel–now, ironically, the Director of the FBI–and Susie Wiles, now the President’s Chief of Staff. This was all, I take it, part of the Democratic Party’s well-organized effort to prevent Donald Trump from being re-elected President in 2024.
That the FBI wiretapped Patel and Wiles is disgraceful, but there is a uniquely improper element to its spying on Wiles. The FBI actually listened in on a conversation between Wiles and her lawyer, reportedly with the lawyer’s consent but without Wiles’s knowledge:
Licensed since 1983. I haven’t heard of a breach of atty ethics remotely as serious as this appears to be, but perhaps Florida law allows a lawyer to entrap a client without the client’s consent —b/c who knows what a client is going to say, whether serious or in jest. Just wow. https://t.co/aV97JmIAgV
— Hugh Hewitt (@hughhewitt) February 26, 2026
Hugh is being charitable. It is inconceivable to me that any lawyer would permit the FBI, or anyone else, to record an attorney-client conversation without the knowledge of his client. That is a grotesque betrayal of a lawyer’s most basic duty, and it is hard to imagine how a lawyer who did such a thing could keep his license.
It is almost impossible to fathom how deep the corruption ran during the Joe Biden/Merrick Garland years.
