White House documents released Monday showed that the FBI tracked Susie Wiles FBI phone records from at least February through May 2023. The records covered who called Wiles, whom she called, when the calls happened and how long they lasted.
They also placed at least 21 attorneys, campaign personnel, Trump Organization contacts, journalists and two Secret Service officials inside the same monitoring file. The documents do not say what investigators were trying to establish.
Plasmic Echo records
The documents detailed Plasmic Echo, the investigation into Donald Trump’s handling of classified documents and other presidential records. They said the case began with the FBI’s 2022 search of Mar-a-Lago and later expanded to include possible obstruction of the investigation.
For Wiles, the new material goes beyond a simple call log. It shows the FBI catalogued her call metadata across legal, political, business, media and security contacts, creating a record of her communications without revealing the content of the calls.
March 9 and March 24
Two dated entries show how closely the records were examined. A March 9 log catalogued a series of Wiles’ calls, while a March 24 entry logged a 41-second call from Lawyer 7 to Wiles and then examined earlier calls between the two.
Some entries identified journalists linked to, The Washington Post and POLITICO. Other entries tied Wiles to two separate Secret Service officials identified as USSS 1 and USSS 2, along with contacts connected to the Trump Organization.
February reporting
first reported in February that Kash Patel said the bureau had subpoenaed phone records belonging to him and Wiles while they were private citizens. The Monday release adds the time span and the range of contacts that were pulled into the file.
What investigators believed those contacts could reveal is still the unresolved point in the record. The monitoring stretched across months, but the documents leave the purpose of the review unstated.
