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With Kash Patel all but guaranteed to be the next FBI director, Trump is wasting no time with his vengeful purge of career investigators at the FBI.
On Friday, interim leaders at the Justice Department instructed the F.B.I. to notify more than a half-dozen high-ranking career officials that they faced termination, according to a copy of an internal memo obtained by The New York Times.
The acting attorney general, Emil Bove, also instructed the acting leadership of the F.B.I. to compile a list of all agents and F.B.I. staff “assigned at any time to investigations and/or prosecutions” relating to the events at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 — the day a mob of Trump supporters stormed through the halls of Congress. [OP: other outlets are reporting they are also asking for names of all agents involved in the classified documents case and Mar-a-Lago raid.]
The memo also demands the names of agents who worked on a case against Hamas leadership, though it is not clear why it was added to the list of agents under scrutiny.
The office of the deputy attorney general “will commence a review process to determine whether any additional personnel actions are necessary” against those F.B.I. agents, analysts, and staff, according to a memo from Mr. Bove to Brian Driscoll, the acting F.B.I. director.
In an email to F.B.I. employees Friday night, Mr. Driscoll noted that he was among the agents who would be on such a list. The F.B.I. has been told to submit the list of names by Tuesday.
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For anyone going along with this purge and willing to confirm Patel—In the immortal words of Col. Nathan R. Jessup:
“You have no idea how to defend a nation. All you did was weaken a country today. That’s all you did.”
On Friday, interim leaders at the Justice Department instructed the F.B.I. to notify more than a half-dozen high-ranking career officials that they faced termination, according to a copy of an internal memo obtained by The New York Times.
The acting attorney general, Emil Bove, also instructed the acting leadership of the F.B.I. to compile a list of all agents and F.B.I. staff “assigned at any time to investigations and/or prosecutions” relating to the events at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 — the day a mob of Trump supporters stormed through the halls of Congress. [OP: other outlets are reporting they are also asking for names of all agents involved in the classified documents case and Mar-a-Lago raid.]
The memo also demands the names of agents who worked on a case against Hamas leadership, though it is not clear why it was added to the list of agents under scrutiny.
The office of the deputy attorney general “will commence a review process to determine whether any additional personnel actions are necessary” against those F.B.I. agents, analysts, and staff, according to a memo from Mr. Bove to Brian Driscoll, the acting F.B.I. director.
In an email to F.B.I. employees Friday night, Mr. Driscoll noted that he was among the agents who would be on such a list. The F.B.I. has been told to submit the list of names by Tuesday.
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For anyone going along with this purge and willing to confirm Patel—In the immortal words of Col. Nathan R. Jessup:
“You have no idea how to defend a nation. All you did was weaken a country today. That’s all you did.”
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