Posted on 01/30/2025 8:32:40 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
At least six senior FBI leaders have been ordered to retire, resign or be fired by Monday, according to sources briefed on the matter, extending a purge that began last week at the Justice Department across the street from the FBI headquarters.
The senior officials are at the executive assistant director level or special agent in charge level and include those who oversee cyber, national security and criminal investigations, the sources told CNN. Some were notified while Kash Patel, President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the agency, sat answering questions from senators for his confirmation hearing Thursday.
Trump transition officials in recent months have signaled plans to push aside leaders promoted by former FBI Director Christopher Wray.
The leadership changes have drawn internal consternation, in part because these officials didn’t have anything to do with prosecutions of Donald Trump, which have been the focus of the president’s ire.
The personnel moves come as hundreds of FBI agents who were assigned to investigate the January 6 US Capitol attack and Trump’s alleged mishandling of classified documents are bracing for the possibility that they could be forced out or punished, similar to what has happened to dozens of career Justice Department lawyers.
The changes highlight how the new administration has moved quickly to deliver on Trump’s vow to strike back at so-called weaponization at the FBI. Trump has falsely accused agents of abuse in their court-ordered search of his Mar-a-Lago home and of their treatment of Capitol rioters.
Some agents say the criticism belies the fact that FBI agents and supervisors can’t choose which assignments they are given as part of their job. The FBI workforce is broadly conservative, and many agents initially had qualms about being assigned to the Capitol attack and Trump cases, viewing the prosecutions as heavy-handed, people familiar...
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“...because these officials didn’t have anything to do with prosecutions of Donald Trump”
Right. CNN believes this is so because those people said so themselves. They are as honest and trustworthy as the “51 former intelligence agents.”
Whistleblowers may keep their jobs.
Everyone else is suspect.
Clean house.
Pretty much every word in the CNN story is BS.
Love the winning. Too bad he didnt do this in 2016 but at least it’s happening now.
Opinion disguised as “news.”
Whelp....... since the Communist News Network lost all credibility years ago.... verify is up to bat.
The FBI went woke under Obama, Holder, Lynch, Wray, Biden, Comey. All pushed a liberal political agenda within the organization.
Trump is merely bending them semi straight again by getting rid of a few outspoken liberal weirdos and then having the rest of these bureaucrat cowards fall in line out of fear.
This isn’t going to make the FBI politically right nor conservative, it’s merely going to make them a little more objective, a little more politically neutral. They allowed themselves to become a Democrat tool.
I see CNN has THEIR ‘female version’ of Jim Acusta - Caitlin Collins. She loves to spar. Almost looks like him too! Ha!
Everyone who raided Trump’s home at Mar-o-Lago needs to be fired too. And many, many more. Maybe eliminate the FBI entirely and start a new organization that is focused with coordinating with state law enforcement.
Play politics then die politics. Gut them.
I doing the Snoopy Dance.
CNN being CNN. What happened at Mar A Lago was a "because we can" statement. Nobody ever expected pushback.
” Trump has falsely accused”?????? seems to me it’s the OTHER WAY AROUND!!!
” Trump has falsely accused agents of abuse in their court-ordered search of his Mar-a-Lago home and of their treatment of Capitol rioters.”
Assumes facts not in evidence.
And the whining!
Wanna ask Scooter Libby how far back this shite goes?
I think Trump has decided that if he cannot gain control of these rogue agencies by placing his own people in to run them due to dems and rinos voting them down and never allowing congress to recess so that he can’t even make a recess appointment that he will effectively shut them out, shift the responsibilities to another agency or end them.
Hell, the dems stuck in an individual or group to act as president as Biden obviously was never in charge... Trump can run CIA, FBI..etc in a similar but honorable way.
“...because these officials didn’t have anything to do with prosecutions of Donald Trump”
Right. CNN believes this is so because those people said so themselves. They are as honest and trustworthy as the “51 former intelligence agents.”>>> These same guys were on CNN for the last 8 years pointing out the lawless prosecutions of thousands of US citizens. oh no they didn’t. good bye. not one, not one, not one of these suckers said a thing.
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