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Top F.B.I. Agent in New York Vows to ‘Dig In’ After Removals at Agency
The New York Times ^
| Feb. 2, 2025, 1:30 p.m. ET
| Adam Goldman, William K. Rashbaum, Maggie Haberman and Glenn Thrush
Posted on 02/02/2025 11:25:40 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
The top agent at the F.B.I.’s New York City field office vowed in a defiant email to his staff to “dig in” after the Trump administration targeted officials involved in the investigations into the Jan. 6 attack — and praised the bureau’s interim leaders for defending its independence.
“Today, we find ourselves in the middle of a battle of our own, as good people are being walked out of the F.B.I. and others are being targeted because they did their jobs in accordance with the law and F.B.I. policy,” wrote
James E. Dennehy, a veteran and highly-respected agent who has run the largest and most important field office in the bureau since last September.
An F.B.I. spokeswoman declined to comment on internal bureau communications.
The email came after the Justice Department ordered the F.B.I. on Friday to collect the names of bureau personnel who helped investigate the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol, raising the possibility that Mr. Trump’s political appointees plan to purge career bureau officials, including rank-and-file field agents. That number could reach 6,000 — or about a sixth of the bureau’s 38,000 employees, according to the F.B.I.
At least nine high-ranking officials have been forced out since Trump’s inauguration, plunging the bureau into confusion. Mr. Dennehy wrote that those removals had spread “fear and angst within the F.B.I. ranks.”
Mr. Dennehy urged his employees to remain calm, and not make any rushed decisions about their careers, and he committed to providing assistance to them no matter what happened.
“Time for me to dig in,” he wrote.
In an extraordinary gesture, Mr. Dennehy, a former Marine, praised the two top acting officials at the F.B.I. — Brian Driscoll and Robert C. Kissane — for “fighting” for the bureau’s employees. Both resisted efforts to immediately oust career employees, and...
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
that is just it, you are not independent, you are part of the executive branch lead by President Trump.
And Trump is simply rooting out those who previously misused the FBI to investigate their political rivals and purge them from government. As anyone American should want them to be purged.
To: Cincinnatus.45-70
Send him to the FBI office on Saipan
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posted on
02/02/2025 12:01:42 PM PST
by
Fai Mao
( The US government is run by pedophiles and Perverts for pedophiles and perverts.)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Whoever this slob is he’s doing a shitty job making NYC a safe place.
Meanwhile the FBI does panty raids and harasses parents at school board meetings. Real tough guys.
To: E. Pluribus Unum
By God there better be a hella “fear and angst!”
To: E. Pluribus Unum
I thought the expression was, “hit the mattresses.”
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Dig in?
That really worked well for the Branch Davidians and the Randy Weaver Family.....
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posted on
02/02/2025 12:11:24 PM PST
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
To: july4thfreedomfoundation
To: niteowl77
I thought you said your dog does not bite.
To: BipolarBob
The House of Representatives can set his pay at $1 a year if they choose. He probably wouldn’t stick around very long?
To: E. Pluribus Unum
As the man said, the constitution gives the president the power to oversee the executive branch. He can fire anyone he wishes within the executive branch. The Congress has no say in the matter. They can pass all the laws to the contrary they wish, but they cannot change the constitution without amendment.
I think they’re being very careful that these executive orders only apply to members/matters of the executive branch.
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posted on
02/02/2025 12:18:19 PM PST
by
Jim Robinson
(Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Could you imagine the press furor if an FBI chief was about to be fired by Obama or Clinton and said he was going to “dig in”?
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posted on
02/02/2025 12:19:21 PM PST
by
Antoninus
(Republicans are all honorable men.)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
“Today, we find ourselves in the middle of a battle of our own, as good people are being walked out of the F.B.I.”
Define “good people.” You mean like James Comey, Andrew McCabe, Peter Strozk, Lisa Page?
Bye, bye . . .
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posted on
02/02/2025 12:24:55 PM PST
by
MCSETots
( )
To: E. Pluribus Unum
SOUNDS LIKE FAFO is going to be VERY BUSY.
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posted on
02/02/2025 12:25:06 PM PST
by
ridesthemiles
(not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
This agent just put a big bright target on his back.
We shall see what happens in the next few weeks.
To: E. Pluribus Unum
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posted on
02/02/2025 12:33:00 PM PST
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Defiance of the CIC demands removal.
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posted on
02/02/2025 12:33:25 PM PST
by
kenmcg
(ti hi o)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Executive branch bureau forgets who the boss is.
FAFO.
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posted on
02/02/2025 12:34:13 PM PST
by
logi_cal869
(-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
To: BobL
I am listening to a podcast interview with this guy from a year ago, and he thinks people like us who are outraged at the weaponization of the FBI are off base, the that FBI is unbiased.
And he subscribes to the DEI crap from what I can tell. He talks the talk about “Oh, we don’t decrease standards...” which is BS in my opinion.
To my ear, he sounds like part of the problem.
I keep in mind, I am biased against him from the context of his “digging in” comment, and may be reading more into it than he deserves.
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posted on
02/02/2025 12:37:16 PM PST
by
rlmorel
("A people that elect corrupt politicians are not victims...but accomplices." George Orwell)
To: Army Air Corps
“’Forget’ to pay him for a few months and see how that works for him.”
And never fix the glitch.
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posted on
02/02/2025 12:42:49 PM PST
by
MayflowerMadam
(It's hard not to celebrate the fall of bad people. - Bongino and)
To: rlmorel
“And he subscribes to the DEI crap from what I can tell. He talks the talk about “Oh, we don’t decrease standards...” which is BS in my opinion.”
By Definition DEI lowers standards, otherwise existing anti-discrimination laws would be sufficient. The purpose of DEI is go beyond discrimination and to bring people of selected classes into positions that would otherwise be filled by non-DEIs. So, by definition, you’ve lowered the standards for DEIs (and, by default, raised the standards for non-DEIs). Net result is that you get lower-level DEIs taking the positions of qualified non-DEIs.
Should have been ILLEGAL from the start as that fits the definition of already existing anti-discrimination laws, which are colorblind.
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posted on
02/02/2025 12:45:58 PM PST
by
BobL
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