Biden-era FBI records reveal sprawling Wiles monitoring as buried contacts surface

Newly released documents reveal the extent of the FBI’s monitoring of President Donald Trump’s now-chief of staff Susie Wiles , showing investigators tracked phone metadata reflecting her contacts with attorneys, journalists, campaign officials, Trump Organization personnel and Secret Service contacts.

Documents released Monday by the White House detail "Plasmic Echo," the investigation into Trump’s handling of classified documents and other presidential records that led to the FBI’s 2022 search of Mar-a Lago and later included possible obstruction of the investigation.

The records show the FBI tracked Wiles’ phone activity from at least February through May 2023, cataloging who called her, whom she called, when the calls occurred and how long they lasted.

The documents show Wiles was in contact with at least 21 attorneys, along with campaign personnel, Trump Organization contacts, Secret Service contacts and journalists, offering a fuller account of the reach of the bureau’s monitoring.

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The newly released documents provide a more detailed picture of the scope and scale of the monitoring, revealing how investigators mapped Wiles’ phone contacts across Trump’s legal, political, business, media and security circles over several months.

Some entries name the contacts swept into the FBI’s monitoring of Wiles, including journalists associated with CNN, The Washington Post and Politico, while dozens of others are identified only by labels such as "Lawyer," "Campaign" and "USSS." Monday's document dump revealed the FBI’s monitoring also swept in Wiles’ contacts with two separate Secret Service officials, identified only as "USSS 1" and "USSS 2," extending the bureau’s mapping of her phone activity into Trump’s protective orbit.

The records do not reveal what investigators were seeking to establish through those contacts, what was discussed or provide reliable durations for the calls.

A March 24 entry from that year shows investigators logged a 41-second call from "Lawyer 7" to Wiles and then examined earlier calls between the two, illustrating how investigators were not simply capturing isolated contacts but tracing patterns across her network.

The documents do not explain what prompted that scrutiny or what investigators believed those contacts could reveal.