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Trump’s Justice Dept. ousts national security officials in latest purge
Washington Post via MSN ^ | March 8, 2025 | Perry Stein, Salvador Rizzo

Posted on 03/08/2025 8:21:29 PM PST by where's_the_Outrage?

The Justice Department has removed top national security officials as part of a widespread purge of senior career leaders across the law enforcement agency, according to people familiar with the decisions who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss personnel issues.

The transferring of at least three national security officials amounts to a complete gutting of leadership in the highly sensitive National Security Division, which is charged with working with the FBI and other intelligence agencies to protect the nation from threats.

It is unclear if the national security officials were provided a reason for their removals. They were technically not fired, with at least some of them being transferred to other parts of the Justice Department in less desirable positions, according to people familiar with the transfers.

The officials must now decide if they will accept those new assignments or resign.

The removals — which come after a multiple ousters of senior Justice officials on Friday — reflect the Trump administration’s effort to push out experienced career officials from nonpartisan roles at the Justice Department, likely paving the way for President Donald Trump and his allies to install people in these traditionally nonpartisan positions who align ideologically with the president. Trump and his allies have long lambasted the Justice Department as weaponizing the law enforcement agency against him and the administration has sought to root out career officials who could undercut the president’s agenda.

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"reflect the Trump administration’s effort to push out experienced career officials from nonpartisan roles at the Justice Department"

Winning

1 posted on 03/08/2025 8:21:29 PM PST by where's_the_Outrage?
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Nonpartisan means anti Trump pro pervert


2 posted on 03/08/2025 8:24:34 PM PST by Fai Mao ( Democrats need to go to prison.)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Tulsi?


3 posted on 03/08/2025 8:24:37 PM PST by HIDEK6 (God bless Donald Trump)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

The media is hyperventilating so hard it sounds like Krystalnacht all over again.


4 posted on 03/08/2025 8:26:16 PM PST by ponygirl (Stay gold.)
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1. “widespread purge of senior career leaders” — Sounds SO Soviet!
2. “The transferring of at least three national security officials” — oh, so it’s just a “transfer”.
3. “a complete gutting of leadership” — Oops, no, it’s a “gutting”
4. “technically not fired” — it morphed into a “not a firing.”
5. “The removals” — now it’s only “removals”

Perry Stein and Salvador Rizzo are sure having a hard time keeping their story straight. They are all over the map in a few paragraphs. Take your pick: purged, transferred, gutted, not fired, or removed.


5 posted on 03/08/2025 8:27:02 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (Democrats who say ‘no one is above the law’ won’t mind going to prison for the money they stole)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Trump and his administration can fire anyone they damn well please when will these fools get that


6 posted on 03/08/2025 8:28:47 PM PST by Sarah Barracuda
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Is this Jeffrey Ragsdale, Melissa MacTough and Brad Wiegmann, or some others?


7 posted on 03/08/2025 8:34:19 PM PST by jjotto ( Blessed are You LORD, who crushes enemies and subdues the wicked.)
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“ … push out experienced career officials from nonpartisan roles at the Justice Department … ”

They certainly have balls of brass!

I can not fathom the depths of such mendacity.

8 posted on 03/08/2025 8:35:16 PM PST by Governor Dinwiddie ( O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and His mercy endureth forever. — Psalm 106)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

This is what WINNING looks like.


9 posted on 03/08/2025 8:37:44 PM PST by rhinohunter (I don’t know if God is a Republican, but I am metaphysically certain that satan is a democrat)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

They don’t call it a purge when it’s a Democrat administration.


10 posted on 03/08/2025 8:47:25 PM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: Sarah Barracuda

Faster please.


11 posted on 03/08/2025 8:47:49 PM PST by Bshaw (A nefarious deceit is upon us all!)
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“according to people familiar with the decisions, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, to discuss personnel issues”

this is anon sources x10...LOL FAKE!!!


12 posted on 03/08/2025 8:56:01 PM PST by OL Hickory (Jesus and the American soldier-1 died for your soul/1 died for your freedom)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

As I read the title, I immediately thought of Admiral Rogers, who in November 2016 informed President Elect Trump of the spying shenanigans. A real patriot. I found this great review of all that in the link below. Be sure to scroll and read the entire article.

https://themarketswork.com/2018/05/05/a-quiet-hero-nsa-director-admiral-mike-rogers-retires/


13 posted on 03/08/2025 8:56:07 PM PST by Ronaldus Magnus III (Do, or do not, there is no try)
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“nonpartisan roles”

From personal experience, non-partisan is a fiction. Don’t buy that BS.


14 posted on 03/08/2025 9:48:30 PM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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Yeah, what nation/s were they working to secure? I suspect America was last on their list.


15 posted on 03/08/2025 10:23:38 PM PST by TigersEye (The Golden Age of MAGA is upon us!)
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Interesting how they pretend that the “nonpartisan roles” continued to be nonpartisan during the Biden fiasco.


16 posted on 03/08/2025 10:26:30 PM PST by Busywhiskers ("Once you have wrestled, everything else in life is easy" -Dan Gable)
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To: Ronaldus Magnus III

“… the highly sensitive National Security Division…”

Yes. I immediately thought of the Russian Altis bank fake investigation and the dossier from Hellary. There’s so much these re-assigned guys could have been in on.


17 posted on 03/08/2025 10:36:23 PM PST by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals)
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To: ifinnegan

Particularly Obama’s administration, or rather regime.


18 posted on 03/08/2025 11:22:30 PM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Nonpartisan my ass.

L


19 posted on 03/08/2025 11:38:52 PM PST by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: Sarah Barracuda; All

Isn’t this Tulsi’s sandbox?


20 posted on 03/09/2025 12:09:01 AM PST by Cobra64 (Common sense isn’t common anymore.)
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