The FBI Agents Association issued a scathing rebuke against Director Kash Patel on Tuesday, calling his recent firings and reinstatements of several agents "erratic and arbitrary retribution." Why it matters: The association — which represents 14,

The FBI Agents Association on Tuesday lambasted FBI Director Kash Patel, after the bureau fired, unfired and then re-fired several FBI agents who had worked on cases targeting U.S. President Donald Trump or his allies.

The firings focus on personnel with connections to former special counsel Jack Smith’s probe of Trump and an earlier FBI investigation known as "Arctic Frost."

Two men were arrested by the FBI on Tuesday morning in connection with an explosion that went off in Harvard Medical School over the weekend. The pair, Logan David Patterson, 18, and Dominick Frank Cardoza, 20, face charges of conspiracy to damage by means of fire or an explosive, per the charging document.

A series of encrypted phone calls – secretly recorded by a confidential FBI source – tipped federal agents that a group was allegedly planning to carry out a terrorist attack in Michigan on behalf of ISIS,

Patel has “launched a campaign of erratic and arbitrary retribution,” the association said. There’s ample evidence to bolster the point.