Two former FBI agents have filed a lawsuit against Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel, alleging they were fired solely for their work on an investigation into efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election.
The two former special agents, identified only as “John Doe 1” and “John Doe 2” in the complaint, say they were assigned to an investigation “into a suspected conspiracy to illegally overturn the results of the 2020 Presidential election,” known as “Arctic Frost,” the 41-page complaint filed on Thursday stated.
The complaint stated the plaintiffs were assigned by their superiors to Arctic Frost and the investigation was “one of many investigations to which Plaintiffs were assigned” during their time with the FBI.
The investigation would eventually be turned over to the office of special counsel Jack Smith, which led to a grand jury indictment of Donald Trump in 2023, the complaint stated. Following Trump’s presidential election win in 2024, the Justice Department moved to dismiss the indictment based on its own policy of not prosecuting sitting presidents.
The two plaintiffs were fired from the agency in late October and early November 2025, following the public release of “unredacted documents associated with Arctic Frost” by Republican members of Congress, which included the name of one of the plaintiffs, the complaint stated.
