Two veteran FBI counterterrorism officials have reportedly been ousted over a case involving harassment of Stephen Miller’s wife Katie.
Allegedly, these two FBI agents questioned investigating someone who was making threatening phone calls to Katie Miller.
So, they were demoted and removed from the case.
Here are the details:
Two veteran FBI agents overseeing counterterrorism operations in the nation's capital have been removed from their jobs and reassigned over the handling of an investigation involving Katie Miller, the conservative podcaster and wife of senior White House adviser Stephen Miller,…
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September 27, 2026
The FBI has reportedly pulled two veteran counterterrorism supervisors out of the Washington Field Office after their team decided harassing calls to Katie Miller, wife of senior White House adviser Stephen Miller, did not meet the bureau’s bar for a full investigation.…
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September 27, 2026
The FBI has reportedly pulled two veteran counterterrorism supervisors out of the Washington Field Office after their team decided harassing calls to Katie Miller, wife of senior White House adviser Stephen Miller, did not meet the bureau’s bar for a full investigation.
Michael Burgwald, the special agent in charge of counterterrorism at WFO, and his deputy, Courtland Rae, were stripped of those jobs Friday and sent to headquarters.
According to reports, Special Agent in Charge Michael Burgwald and Assistant SAC Courtland Rae were re-assigned from the FBI Washington Field Office’s counterterrorism division and sent back to bureau headquarters on Friday.
This came after Stephen and Katie Miller expressed dissatisfaction with how the FBI was handling the case.
Bloomberg Law reported further:
The orders from the bureau’s DC chief Darren Cox stemmed from frustration shared by the Miller family that the field office was moving slowly in probing allegedly harassing phone messages left with prominent conservative podcaster, Katie Miller, added the people, who spoke anonymously to avoid retaliation.
White House spokeswoman Lauren Bis said in a statement that while the Miller family has never interacted with or met the ousted FBI officials, “Senior leadership at the FBI determined they were stifling investigations into very serious threats and made a unilateral decision to remove them.”
Several of the individuals said Director Kash Patel was also displeased with the office’s progress on the case.
“Director Patel did not order this decision,” said the FBI’s Cox, the Washington Field Office’s assistant director in charge, in a statement. “This was a personnel decision made at the Washington field office level alone based on our constant evaluation of mission needs. Any suggestion otherwise is false.”
Special Agent in Charge Michael Burgwald and Assistant SAC Courtland Rae, weren’t fired as was the fate of multiple other FBI officials and agents who got crosswise with Patel. Still, the reassignments represent a loss of decades of highly regarded counterterrorism experience during the war with Iran from an office critical to US efforts combatting violent extremism from that region, said former law enforcement officials.
Both Burgwald, a West Point graduate, and Rae have served in high-profile posts in which they received attorney general’s awards over the past two decades. Rae supervised the FBI’s response to the Boston Marathon bombing in 2013.
Recall that the Miller family was forced to move into military housing last year due to serious threats against them and their children.
These weren’t just vague threats being tossed around online or anything like that, either.
Rather, a stalker doxxed the family and actually put up flyers in their neighborhood attacking them.
In light of all this, it’s incredibly disappointing to see the FBI not taking threats against Katie Miller seriously.
According to
CNN, the officers who were removed from the case had determined that the harassing phone calls did not warrant further investigation:
The field office team that reviewed the reported harassing calls determined they did not meet the threshold required for an FBI investigation, and no nexus to terrorism was identified, the sources said. This decision did not sit well with bureau leadership, and the two senior field office agents were removed from their positions, according to the sources.
Since taking office last year, FBI director Kash Patel — a fierce loyalist of President Donald Trump — has fired, demoted, or forced into retirement countless career employees who handled past investigations into Trump and his allies. Many of those forced out have filed lawsuits seeking reinstatement.
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Did the FBI make the right call in re-assigning these two counterterrorism chiefs?
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