Fired FBI Agents Involved in Mar-a-Lago Raid Ask Judge Cannon for Clarity After Grand Jury Subpoenas — Lawyers Raise Fifth Amendment Self-Incrimination Concerns

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The same FBI personnel who helped execute the unprecedented August 2022 raid on President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home are now racing to federal court, not to defend the raid, but to protect themselves.Lawyers for a group of current and former FBI agents and analysts who worked the classified-documents case filed a motion Thursday in the Southern District of Florida asking U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon to clarify a prior order so their clients can sit in front of a Fort Pierce grand jury without walking into contempt, incomplete testimony, or a Fifth Amendment spectacle.According to Associated Press, two of the former employees received grand jury subpoenas on Monday. One is slated to testify as soon as next week. Two more are scheduled the week after.The FBI’s Miami Field Office had already reached out in July and August for “voluntary” interviews and warned that grand jury testimony would follow.The Justice Department has floated immunity. It has not formally offered it. That is not how innocent fact witnesses usually behave.They say they will talk, if the judge first gives them a shield.The filing, first reported by Politico and detailed by Law & Crime, asks Cannon to confirm that her February order burying Volume II of disgraced Special Counsel Jack Smith’s Mar-a-Lago report does not gag these agents when they answer a grand jury.The agents argue they are trapped. If they answer questions that touch non-public material in Smith’s buried report, they risk contempt of Cannon’s order. If they hold back, they look like they are hiding something. If they take the Fifth, they say, “innocent former federal civil servants” will look guilty.Most of the clients, the filing says, were fired by FBI Director Kash Patel and are no longer federal employees. One of the subpoenaed agents reviewed the entire Volume II.Another, represented by the same counsel, is identified as the Mar-a-Lago search-warrant affiant. Their lawyers include Abbe Lowell and Mark Zaid.The Gateway Pundit reported in January that Patel had already begun clearing senior officials tied to the Trump and Mar-a-Lago investigations, including agents out of the Miami office connected to the raid.Later reporting confirmed a wider ouster of staff who worked the documents case after it emerged that Biden-era FBI leadership had quietly pulled toll records on Patel and now-White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles while they were private citizens.The raid itself never had clean probable cause inside the Bureau. The Gateway Pundit reported in December 2025, citing declassified emails reviewed by Fox News, that the FBI’s Washington Field Office told DOJ it did not believe it had established probable cause for a search warrant at Mar-a-Lago. DOJ pressed ahead anyway. An official even said he didn’t “give a damn about the optics.”The Gateway Pundit followed that trail again in April after Judicial Watch forced out more FBI records on the “Plasmic Echo” investigation. Field agents again warned that they lacked probable cause and wanted to work through Trump attorney Evan Corcoran. Biden’s Justice Department wanted the wide-scope raid: residence, office, storage. They got it.Now those same files, those same decisions, and those same people are in front of a Florida grand jury.The Gateway Pundit reported in January that a grand jury had been ordered empaneled in Fort Pierce to put Crossfire Hurricane and the Mar-a-Lago raid under scrutiny. That is the same courthouse where Cannon sits, the judge who already tossed Jack Smith’s documents case.The current probe, according to AP, is examining an alleged conspiracy to deprive Trump of his civil rights and keep him from power, stretching from the Russia investigation through the 2022 search.The post Fired FBI Agents Involved in Mar-a-Lago Raid Ask Judge Cannon for Clarity After Grand Jury Subpoenas — Lawyers Raise Fifth Amendment Self-Incrimination Concerns appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.