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FBI Fires Former Acting Director and Official Involved in Jan. 6 Probe: Report
UNITED STATES, AUG 7 – The FBI's overhaul removes senior officials who resisted Trump administration demands, including former acting director Brian Driscoll, amid a broad purge affecting key field offices nationwide.
- Two senior FBI officials, including one who initially resisted the Trump administration's effort to gather names of agents involved in the January 6 probe, are being fired.
- The FBI had provided personnel details about several thousand employees in response to a demand for names of agents involved in the January 6 cases.
- The FBI has moved under Kash Patel's watch to aggressively demote, reassign or push out agents, with numerous special agents in charge of field offices being told to retire, resign or accept reassignment.
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‘People Are Pissed’: FBI Employees Reportedly Give ‘Drizz’ a Hero’s Sendoff After Being Fired by Kash Patel
FBI/official portrait Former Acting Director of the FBI Brian Driscoll was “clapped out of an FBI facility in Virginia as more than 200 people paid tribute,” MSNBC’s Ken Dilanian reported on Friday. Driscoll, or “Drizz,” as he is sometimes called, was acting director for one month. During his brief tenure, Driscoll was directed by then-Acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove to fire FBI agents involved in cases related to the Jan. 6 Capitol rio…
Donald Trump continues the cleanse within the Federal Bureau of Investigation. After the expulsion of agents and officials already occurred in January, the FBI forced to resign at least three senior officials who had clashed with the administration of President Donald Trump, including a former interim director who had opposed the requests to identify and dismiss hundreds of agents involved in the investigation of the attack of 6 January 2021 at …
Senior agent who helped oversee FBI’s response to Jan. 6 is fired - West Hawaii Today
WASHINGTON — The Trump-appointed leaders of the FBI deepened their purge of employees this week, forcing out senior agents including the former acting head of the bureau and another top official whose ascent angered Trump supporters, according to people familiar with the matter.
Trump administration launches another FBI purge
The Trump administration has launched another purge at the FBI, forcing out three law enforcement veterans including a former head of the agency, according to two people familiar with the developments. Former acting director Brian Driscoll, Assistant Director in Charge of the Washington Field Office Steven Jensen, and Washington-based Special Agent Walter Giardina were informed they are being fired, according to the two people, who were not auth…
Kash Patel Fires FBI's Jan 6th Investigator
Trumps vengeance purge continues in the FBI, as former acting director Brian Driscoll and three other FBI agents were unceremoniously fired by Kash Patel. Reuters reports, "Driscoll, who temporarily served as the bureau's director early this year before FBI Director Kash Patel's Senate confirmation, was viewed as a hero by some in the bureau after he sought to shield them from being targeted for their role in investigating people who stormed the…
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