There is a push by Trump & Co. to get rid of ANY agent that helped Jack Smith arrest Donald Trump for criminal actions….
Acting FBI Director Brian Driscoll has stood his ground against such action….
The list of those to be let go could be in the thousands…
Trump the convicted felon?
Has pardoned the Jan. 6 criminals…
Now he wants rot go after those who investigated and locked those people up…
Acting FBI Director Brian Driscoll on Friday refused a Justice Department order that he assist in the firing of agents involved in Jan. 6 riot cases, pushing back so forcefully that some FBI officials feared he would be dismissed, multiple current and former FBI officials told NBC News.
The Justice Department ultimately did not dismiss Driscoll, the head of the bureau’s Newark field office who is temporarily serving as its acting director. Kash Patel, President Trump’s pick for FBI director and a harsh critic of the bureau, will take over if he is confirmed by the Senate.
During his confirmation hearing on Thursday, Patel testified under oath that no FBI officials would be retaliated against. He also tried to distance himself from years of claims that the bureau was corrupt and that many people convicted of participating in the Jan. 6th riot at the U.S. Capitol had been unjustly prosecuted.
“All FBI employees will be protected against political retribution,” Patel told Senators.
Just over twenty-four hours later, Driscoll sent a memo to the FBI workforce explaining that Emil Bove, the acting Deputy Attorney General and Trump’s former defense lawyer, had ordered him to remove eight senior FBI executives. Driscoll also said he had been told to turn over the names of every FBI employee involved in investigating Jan. 6 rioters.
Driscoll stated that the eight executives had been forced out but did not say in the memo whether he would turn over the broader list of Jan. 6-related FBI investigators — a list that he noted encompasses thousands of its employees, including him….
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FBI agents were heartened by Driscoll’s memo, a source said, which many saw as an attempt by Driscoll to make the workforce and the public aware of what he was being asked to do…
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“He was trying to do right by the workforce,” one person familiar with the thinking of agents told NBC News. “He’s putting it in writing and naming names.”
A separate DOJ memo obtained by NBC News identified the employees who were forced out.
The list included four top FBI managers: Robert Wells, who oversaw the national security branch; Ryan Young, of the intelligence branch; Robert Nordwall, of criminal and cyber response; Jackie Maguire, of science and technology. All of those people were eligible to retire and many of them did so….
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Legal experts said that few, if any, of the firings carried out so far by the Trump administration have been legal under civil service laws because the employees were not afforded due process.
The Trump White House argues, though, that the president has the absolute right to fire anyone he wishes in the executive branch. The Supreme Court has ruled that federal employees have a right to a hearing before they are disciplined or terminated.
Joyce Vance, a former U.S. attorney and NBC News legal contributor, called the firings illegal.
“Career federal employees can be fired for conduct or performance issues, not because they failed to demonstrate political loyalty to the current incumbent of the White House,” said Vance. “Trump ignored controlling law and regulations to do this, and unless the Supreme Court changes their interpretation, any firing of permanent members of the civil service should not stand.”
Even if some of the employees sue and win, they said their public service careers have been irreparably damaged, if not ended….
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Current and former FBI agents say the purge at the bureau has had a shattering effect on the morale, sending a message that agents who work on cases that anger someone in the Trump administration could be targeted.
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Yes…Trump & Co. want Federal Law Enforcement to call in and make sure they don’t arrest their friends…
The Law is for EVERYONE ELSE….
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