Newly released documents from the White House reveal the extraordinary scope of the FBI's surveillance of Susie Wiles, now White House Chief of Staff, during the Biden-era investigation into President Donald Trump's handling of classified documents. According to records made public Monday and first reported by Fox News, the bureau tracked at least 39 contacts tied to Wiles — including 21 attorneys, campaign personnel, Trump Organization contacts, Secret Service officials, and journalists.
The investigation, code-named "Plasmic Echo," examined Trump's handling of classified and presidential records, culminating in the FBI's 2022 raid on Mar-a-Lago. The documents released this week show the bureau's monitoring of Wiles extended well beyond the initial search, with investigators tracking her phone metadata from at least February through May 2023 — cataloguing who called her, whom she called, when the calls took place, and how long they lasted.
How Deep Did the Surveillance Go?
The records paint a picture of investigators mapping Wiles' entire communication network across Trump's legal, political, business, media, and security circles. According to the documents, the FBI tracked her contacts with two separate Secret Service officials, identified only as "USSS 1" and "USSS 2" — extending the bureau's reach into Trump's protective orbit.
A March 24 entry shows investigators logged a 41-second call from "Lawyer 7" to Wiles, then examined earlier calls between the two — demonstrating that agents weren't simply capturing isolated contacts but tracing patterns across her network. A March 9 log catalogues a series of Wiles' calls with at least six contacts identified as campaign personnel.
The documents do not explain what investigators were seeking to establish through these contacts or what they believed the calls could reveal. The records also do not provide reliable durations for many of the calls logged.
The Broader Pattern
This latest release adds to a growing body of evidence showing how aggressively federal law enforcement scrutinized Trump's inner circle during the Biden years. The surveillance of Wiles — a longtime Florida political operative who helped engineer Trump's 2024 comeback — raises uncomfortable questions about the politicization of the Justice Department and FBI under the previous administration.
Wiles was never charged with any crime, and the documents released Monday do not allege wrongdoing on her part. But the monitoring of her communications with attorneys — a category that included 21 separate legal contacts — raises significant concerns about attorney-client privilege and the chilling effect such surveillance can have on legal representation.
The White House released the documents as part of an ongoing transparency effort, though critics of the prior investigation say the full scope of the FBI's actions remains unknown. It is not yet known whether additional records will be released or whether the surveillance extended beyond May 2023.
What This Means for the Trump Administration
For President Trump and his team, the documents confirm long-held suspicions that the Biden Justice Department treated political opponents differently than ordinary Americans. The FBI's decision to track the phone activity of a future White House chief of staff — including her calls with lawyers and Secret Service personnel — represents a level of scrutiny rarely seen outside of organized crime investigations.
Republicans on Capitol Hill have signaled they intend to investigate the matter further. The documents released Monday are likely to become central evidence in congressional hearings examining the weaponization of federal law enforcement against Trump and his associates.
For everyday Americans, the story raises a simple question: if the FBI was willing to monitor the future chief of staff to a former president, what safeguards exist to prevent similar surveillance of ordinary citizens who happen to fall on the wrong side of a federal investigation?
Our Take
Let's be clear about what these documents show: the Biden-era FBI treated Susie Wiles — a woman who has never been charged with a crime — like a mob boss. They tracked her calls with 21 attorneys, with Secret Service officials, with campaign staff, with journalists. They built a map of her entire professional life.
This is what the Deep State looks like when it targets conservatives. It's not a conspiracy theory — it's a paper trail, and now it's public.
The FBI had no business monitoring a private citizen's calls with her lawyers. That's not law enforcement; that's intimidation. That's the kind of thing that happens in countries where the ruling party uses the police to silence its opponents.
Patriots, this is why we fought so hard to take back the White House. This is why the 2024 election mattered. The administrative state is real, it is dangerous, and it was turned loose on Donald Trump and everyone around him.
The question now is simple: will anyone be held accountable? Or will the same bureaucrats who built this surveillance apparatus simply go back to their desks and wait for the next Republican to investigate?
We the People deserve answers. The documents are out. The evidence is clear. Now it's time for justice.
