Posted on 02/03/2025 11:46:08 AM PST by yesthatjallen
The assistant director at the FBI’s New York field office reportedly told staff in an email that they were in the “middle of a battle” and that it was time for him to “dig in” as the Trump administration targets bureau officials who investigated the January 6 attack on the Capitol.
“Today, we find ourselves in the middle of a battle of our own, as good people are being walked out of the FBI and others are being targeted because they did their jobs in accordance with the law and FBI policy,” wrote James E Dennehy, who has led the New York field office since last September, in an email viewed and reported by the New York Times.
The email came after the justice department’s recent directive to the FBI to compile the names of bureau personnel involved in investigating the 6 January 2021 attack on the Capitol. The justice department also informed FBI leadership last week that eight senior executives at the bureau faced termination.
Since Trump’s inauguration on 20 January, at least nine high-ranking officials at the FBI have been forced out, according to the New York Times.
In his email to staff, Dennehy reportedly said that those removals had spread “fear and angst within the FBI ranks”.
He referred to those who had departed the bureau as “extraordinary individuals” adding: “I mourn the forced retirements.”
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Fire him for sending this email undermining the commander in chief.
There’s one! Get him!!!
I think Trump is holding fire on these saboteurs until Kash gets confirmed.
The Kash drops the ax.
They serve themselves and not the electorate, disgraceful.
The core issue is that too many people have justifiably lost faith in the FBI because too much of the leadership was politicized. And unfortunately, to ensure you remove all of that rot, there are bound to be some good people caught up in the terminations.
You'd hope that the message is clear, and that the institutional memory of the FBI will be that they can never again engage in conduct that gives even the appearance of political bias.
A whole new herd of MSNBC consultants!
Dennehy compared the current situation to his experience as a marine in the early 1990s. He recalled digging a small 5ft-deep foxhole where he hunkered down for safety.
“It sucked,” he wrote. “But it worked.”
Dennehy compared the current situation to his experience as a marine in the early 1990s. He recalled digging a small 5ft-deep foxhole where he hunkered down for safety.
“It sucked,” he wrote. “But it worked.”
These corrupt people in government think it’s their own private government...Unreal.
He is not right at all, his language is combative and in direct opposition to the elected will of the people in the presidency.
His language reveals his heart, he is a seditionist at worst and possibly a traitor.
Somebody tell them they lost.
Kash Patel will be confirmed in a day or two, and he will be fired. These F-Troop idiots actually think they don’t answer to the DOJ and President.
“He recalled digging a small 5ft-deep foxhole where he hunkered down for safety.”
No disrespect to military personnel that really needed a fox hole for cover but this sounds rather cowardly coming from this guy.
James E Dennehy?
If he’s not already gone, I’d expect him to be history by sun up.
One serious problem is the ridiculous heavy sentences Congress votes for and the White House signs. Years in prison for storing insecticides in a warm place. Years in prison for failing to fill out one of a pile of myriad forms. The list of draconian sentences for mundane acts go on and on.
Bad analogy - these guys have already dug their own holes far to deep to crawl out of so they will become the graves their careers will be buried in.
People called this long ago. We just were doing our jobs.
The email came after the justice department’s recent directive to the FBI to compile the names of bureau personnel involved in investigating the 6 January 2021 attack on the Capitol. The justice department also informed FBI leadership last week that eight senior executives at the bureau faced termination.
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