FBI Agent Sought Criminal Investigation of Elon Musk Over Federal Employee “Five Things” Email, Grassley-Released Record Shows
- An FBI agent named Kevin Gounaud proposed a criminal investigation into Elon Musk in February 2025 for allegedly encouraging federal employees to transmit sensitive information and for using the social media platform X for official government business, which he claimed violated security policies and laws.
- Musk instructed federal employees to submit weekly bullet point summaries of their accomplishments via email and publicly announced this policy on X, warning that failure to respond would be treated as a resignation.
- Gounaud compared Musk's use of X for official communication to Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server while Secretary of State and argued Musk might have violated laws against personal enrichment and government ethics agreements for Special Government Employees.
- Senator Chuck Grassley released Gounaud's email during a 2026 Senate Judiciary Committee hearing as evidence of attempts to politicize investigations; no formal investigation into Musk was opened, and Gounaud left the FBI about a year later.
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