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https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/07/politics/fbi-fires-senior-officials-at-odds-with-trump-administration

> FBI firing senior officials at odds with Trump administration

> Two senior FBI officials, including one who initially resisted the Trump administration’s effort to gather the names of agents who worked on cases related to the US Capitol attack on January 6, 2021, are being fired, multiple sources tell CNN.

> Brian Driscoll, who was acting FBI director in the weeks before now-Director Kash Patel was confirmed, is being dismissed, sources said. Steve Jensen, the acting director in charge of the Washington Field Office, is also being fired, according to two separate sources.

> The administration is also firing other agents in the bureau this week who were perceived to be opposed to Trump in the past, according to three sources familiar with the agency’s actions.

> The FBI and its Washington field office declined to comment. CNN has reached out to the New York field office for comment.

> Driscoll and Jensen notified their colleagues Thursday, according to letters obtained by CNN, with Driscoll writing that he had not been given a reason for his firing.

> “Last night I was informed that tomorrow will be my last day in the FBI,” Driscoll wrote. “I understand that you may have a lot of questions regarding why, for which I currently have no answers. No cause has been articulated at this time.”

> “Our collective sacrifices for those we serve is, and will always be, worth it. I regret nothing,” Driscoll wrote. “You are my heroes, and I remain in your debt.”

> Jensen told his colleagues he intended “to meet this challenge like any other I have faced in this organization, with professionalism, integrity, and dignity.”

> He encouraged his colleagues to “never waver in your resolve to answer the call to protect the American people and uphold the Constitution.”

>>1425193 (OP)
> “Be the FBI,” Jensen concluded.

> In the first weeks of the second Trump administration, at least six senior officials at the executive assistant director level or special agent in charge level – including those who oversee cyber, national security and criminal investigations – were ordered to retire, resign or be fired.

> Among the issues that caused discord with top officials in the FBI was Driscoll not disciplining an FBI pilot for Patel after it was discovered he was involved in issuing a subpoena in the Mar-a-Lago investigation into Trump and associates, according to a person familiar with the incident.

> The FBI Agents Association, a nonprofit organization that supports current and former agents, said in a statement it is “deeply concerned” by the firings and “actively reviewing all legal options to defend our members.”

> “(We) are deeply concerned by reports that FBI Special Agents—case agents and senior leaders alike—are going to be summarily fired without due process for doing their jobs investigating potential federal crimes,” the association said Thursday.

> The association said agents “followed the law” and noted that agents do not pick the cases they are assigned to.

> “If these Agents are fired without due process, it makes the American people less safe. Agents need to be focused on their work and not on potentially being illegally fired based on their assignments,” the statement says.

> Earlier this year, a plan to quickly fire more than 100 mid-level and senior employees blew up into a weeklong standoff between then-acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove and Driscoll and sparked internal protest against the move inside the agency.

>>1425194

> The rebellion prompted Trump to appoint a loyalist podcaster Dan Bongino as deputy director of the FBI. Bongino recently considered resigning from the post following the administration’s handling of documents and information relating to Jeffrey Epstein.

> The demand earlier this year for thousands of names of FBI agents involved in the January 6 cases came from Bove, who said in a memo at the time that the list of names would be reviewed for any firing or “personnel actions,” according to the memo.

> “The FBI — including the Bureau’s prior leadership — actively participated in what President Trump appropriately described as ‘a grave national injustice that has been perpetrated on the American people over the last four years’ with respect to events that occurred at or near the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021,” Bove said at the time.

> “This request,” Driscoll wrote to all bureau personnel following Bove’s memo, “encompasses thousands of employees across the country who have supported these investigative efforts.”

>>1425195
> Both Driscoll and Jensen had been with the FBI for nearly 20 years and served in various roles, including in leadership roles across the country. In 2020, Jensen served as the section chief of the Domestic Terrorism Operations Section at FBI Headquarters in Washington. Driscoll – who has been awarded the FBI Medal of Valor and the FBI Shield of Bravery for actions under fire – also served as the commander of the FBI’s Hostage Rescue Team and special agent in charge of the Newark Field Office.

> Jensen was originally listed among those attending a Justice Department press conference Thursday on the indictment of the alleged shooter of two Israeli embassy staff members earlier this year.

> He was not present, and US Attorney Jeanine Pirro declined to address questions about his departure.

> “I’m not going to talk about politics today. I’m talking about crime. I’m talking about hate crimes, and that’s the extent of it,” she said.

>>1425193 (OP)
good leftists terrorists shouldn't be allowed in power, they're all potential turncoats and treasonous traitors

>>1425197
>they're not turncoats but are traitors
this is why you get called an ESL all the time

>>1425198
learn to you read you uneducated manlet

>>1425193 (OP)
They keep firing the career government employees and replacing them with thinktank cronies and Fox News hosts. By the time Trump's term is over the government will be a hollowed out husk of what it was 10 years ago.

>>1425205
This post made me realize this is genuinely gonna be a problem when Trump's term ends. All these guys they fired will need to be rehired, and the staff they installed over 4 years are probably gonna need to be purged because they'll all have no fucking idea what they're doing and will be even more hostile to any non-Trump admin than Trump claims Biden's appointees were to him.

>>1425205
and that's a good thing,
>>1425207
democrats did the same thing for the past decade its about time for another regime to take over. people still thinking democrats are going to win 2028 are delusional the polls are all stating otherwise and democrats keep outting themselves as domestic terrorists, foreign terrorist supporters or actual human scum.

The epstein file is going to be used to take out his political opponents.

>>1425208
you're getting more incoherent
are you sick?

>>1425205
>>1425207
I admire your optimism in thinking that MAGA’s just going to voted out, or that we’ll be able to just rehire people and fix things even if they are. They won’t allow either.

>>1425209
https://today.yougov.com/topics/politics/trackers/the-democratic-party-favorability
61.7% disapproval rate
33.9% approval rate

https://today.yougov.com/topics/politics/trackers/the-republican-party-favorability
56.5%
40.1%

Its funny how you think you're going to win 2028 lol. so cute

>>1425211
definitely more low effort than usual
you have insurance, right?
you've seen a doctor?

>>1425211
>Trump is less popular than democrats
LMAO

>>1425213
first number is disapproval rate second is approval
he's more popular by 6.2%

>>1425214
really gotta see that doctor, bud
you're laughably, easily provably wrong

>>1425193 (OP)
>cnn
fake news

>>1425211
This is dems resenting their own party for not putting up more of a fight. You interpret that as America wanting them to do even less, which is wrong.

>>1425218
too complicated
loyalty is binary, yes or no
dems are too weak to keep their people in line
Trump convinced his party that pedophilia is good

>>1425219
>dems are too weak to keep their people in line
In 2015, a certain political party was too weak to keep anyone in line.
Not long after 4th July, that same political party more than kept those that thought they had the right to have ideas above their stations - by rioting - in line: 650 arrests & prison sentences of those that thought they had the right to have wrong opinions: they daren't since. GCHQ is watching you.
A black man in the White House who was C-in-C in 2009-2017. Just that alone proved nothing's impossible. 4th July 2024 in UK: nine years after that political party that was 'too weak' against the government previously, obliterated them with the 400+ seat majority that was Starmergeddon. That political party that was previously 'too weak' now a government that Trump demanded a deal with, which got the better part of that deal: Labour. Starmer told Putin to go fuck himself. Keir's the Strong Man now.
All it takes for the Democrats is to have their own Starmer. Just like Obama, he's proved that nothing's impossible.

I don't use power to control people, I use lies.

>>1425193 (OP)
From what I can tell the FBI was under dereliction of duty. The president is their direct boss and they were hampering the investigation.

>>1425218
Dems have disparate groups at war with each other because the Democrat have been overwhelmingly in power for the last 16-20 years and didn't keep their fringe groups in check. Dems would still be in power if they didn't start focusing on attacking white men so fervently.

>>1425255
>Dems would still be in power if they didn't start focusing on attacking white men so fervently.
No they haven't. Instead they've been focusing on white rightards. That's the difference. Because you're different: white rightards aren't human or they wouldn't be white rightards. Humans don't speak, act or think the way inferior subhuman white rightards do. White rightards' orange Subhuman-in-Chief: the way it speaks (everything coming out of its mouth situated in its ass), acts (being a subhuman dictator. Also being a pedo) & thinks (it's senile). White rightards not condemning their Pedo-in-Chief and demanding he be thrown under the bus just as others don't have a problem with Bill Clinton being thrown under the bus, thus MAGAts are pedos, ergo white rightards aren't human. The focusing on & attacking of white rightards will continue until opinions improve

>>1425257
Were you purposely trying to write like Smegel in your response to me as a joke?
I did find it funny, but I doubt you were even aware you were writing like that character.

>>1425255
>See it's actually because they go after the poor oppressed white people too much

>>1425263
I'm happy that you are at least learning.

>>1425265
I'm learning the depths of republican retardation, yeah.

>>1425266
You seem to lack compassion for your fellow man.

>>1425255
>focusing on attacking white men
>>1425258
Then you wonder why Democrats focus on attacking the white right. Proof: >>1425267
>You seem to lack compassion for your fellow man
When the white right stop focusing on attacking those not exactly like them, then nobody will have any reason to focus on attacking them but then, they wouldn't be rightists if they didn't so much as think the way they do
Their lack of compassion is why they don't have the right to have compassion showed to them. Once they do and become hyper-tolerant of 'The Other' with no wrongthink allowed in their minds, then compassion will be showed to them in turn.
Why do you purposefully seethe at those simply displaying the same intolerant attitude to white rightists that are themselves more intolerant than everyone else? If they can't take a bit of intolerance because of their wrong opinions & actions fueled by such, they never had the right to dish it out in the first place, and they deserve all the attacks focused on them that they get.
Want the focused attacks on white rightists to stop, all they have to do is stop focused attacks on those not exactly like them. That's how it works, you see.
tl;dr: Don't like being attacked, don't attack others even for the pettiest reasons imaginable, such as 'They're different to me'

>>1425275
one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all

>>1425277
>under God
>the intolerant Trump isn't a Christian, certainly because he's broken most if not all of the 10 Commandments
Curious how Jimmy Carter used the pre-1954 Pledge of Allegiance - which omits 'under God' but is still valid - and he was a devout Southern Baptist.
He building affordable homes with his own hands until he was too old to do so makes him more of a Christian than Trump will ever be. If you can put the fries in the bag, let's see you build affordable homes with your own hands, Trump. That's what a Christian like Carter would do.

>>1425211
Actual numbers are 61.7% approval, not disapproval. You swapped the Dems' numbers.

>>1425198
This website is going through some rough hours when even the people screaming ESL have next to no reading comprehension

>>1425311
>claims to know english
>doesn't understand the meanings of the words potential, turncoat, or traitor
:/

>>1425193 (OP)
Well if that's how you define fascism then you've got a problem if you're on the left side of the spectrum too because their authoritarian which is essentially the same thing according to your definition.

>>1425338
If the right can't take a bit of authoritarianism, then they never had the right to dish it out in the first place.

>>1425198
4chan is not english class, teacher pet

>>1425340
Doesn't the top pinned post for this whole board got a picture of logical fallacies plastered in it? What you're doing is called whataboutism, or tu qoe, or however it's spelled. It goes by several names. Instead of defending what you're doing on its own merits you just trying to point the finger at somebody else. That's a logical fallacy.

If logical fallacies are all you have to back up your position then you're an idiot for holding that position.

>>1425205
It already is, retard

>>1425345
Nope that top pin post thing is a different board but the point remains the same. If all you have to back up your position is a logical fallacy then your position sucks and you're a fool for holding it.

>>1425209
>passive agressive tone
>are you wrongthinker?
Eat shit and neck yourself, faggot

>>1425210
>implying leftists are alternative
Nah they are same shit.
And no, as matter of fact ecenomy and prosperity is way more important than rights and wants of some feral shitskins and literal faggots.

>>1425215
>bud
Cringe.
You are either white trash or hoodrat nigger

>>1425215
>>1425212
>>1425209
Do you have medical fetish?

>>1425257
>implying leftists are human
Your kind is willing to sacrifice prosperity and feature of humanity on altar of meaningless and soulless ideals.
You are worse than religiotards, at least they have bunch of may or may not be real boogeys, you got absolutely nothing

>>1425345
Ah, so when a rightist regime is authoritarian against those you don't like, that's okay and 'based', amirite? But if a leftist government is authoritarian against white rightists, you say they don't have the right to do that to white rightists? That's called hypocrisy.
If you think a rightist regime can do what it likes to those you don't like, and those you don't like can only do nothing against this persecution and must like what's being done to them, with no complaints allowed, then a leftist government can be authoritarian against white rightists and you only have the right to like it. With no complaints or wrong opinions allowed from the likes of you. And certainly no 'whataboutism' allowed from you. Otherwise your hypocrisy's showing.
That's how it works, you see.

>>1425353
>willing to sacrifice prosperity and feature of humanity on altar of meaningless and soulless ideals
But enough about the Trump adminifrustration

>>1425267
People who value conformity above all else and blindly believe in official narrative written by corrupt pedophiles and their lackeys are not my fellow men and never will be.

>>1425275
>Their lack of compassion
Bunch of feral shitskins and annoying, obnoxious faggots don't deserve compassion.

>>1425357
>Bunch of feral shitskins and annoying, obnoxious faggots don't deserve compassion
But enough about MAGAts in /news/

>>1425275
You should be tolerant to pedophiles and invasive vermin like bed bugs, roaches, rats
No, just no.

>>1425359
>You should be tolerant to pedophiles and invasive vermin like
Trumptards
>No, just no
Exactly

>>1425359
In Soviet /news/, mods are intolerant of you. Good

>>1425358
Obsessed and rent free.
I am apolitical.
And by the way if it wasn't for your zealous holier than thou idealistic faggotry magatards wouldn't be a thing, so reap what you sow and lie in bed that you made, you fully deserve it.

>>1425362
>Obsessed
But enough about the likes of >>1425362

>>1425360
The tide of feral shitkins are pretty much the one of the reasons why our ecenomy is crumbling, retard

>>1425363
You are literally obsessed with magatards, leftytard

>>1425363
Why do you act like random people magically care about your thoughts and feelings?

>>1425363
If it wasn't obvious i hate you both, retard

>>1425365
>leftytard
>obsessed
But enough about the likes of >>1425365
>obsessed
>>1425364
>The tide of feral shitkins
But enough about inbred rednecks

>>1425366
>>1425367
Why are you so obsessed about others that you need to post in /news/?

>>1425263
>call white men racist/fascist for voting Republican
>pollute the job market with cheap migrant labor
>make it impossible to own a home
>infiltrate every major avenue of entertainment, replace white men with bipoc women
>advertisements are more of the same (especially for the military)
>democrat president says that you're being a replaced and this is unironically a good thing
>denies aid to farmers and small business owners if they aren't a minority
>demands that men can go into the woman's bathroom with your daughters if they identify as female
>spends tax money on medicaid, housing, utilities and food for illegal migrants
>in spite of this cultural and economic domination, still claim white supremacists are the greatest threat to America

>>1425370
you're not white or american shill

>>1425372
>point out basic reality
>"y-you're not white!" screams the albino mexican

>>1425373
it's amazing that you do this every day, shill. what a sad life you lead

>>1425369
>no u
Low iq moment, even LMM has more intellectual capacity than you.

>>1425354
It would be hypocrisy if I said any of those things or held that position but I don't. If you want to ask me what my position is go ahead but I'm going to tell you what my position is. You're not going to tell me what my position is.

I think we agree on the fundamental description of hypocrisy. I think maybe where we disagree is that everybody has a personal responsibility to act ethically regardless of what anyone else is doing.

So if you want to have a moral high ground you have to stay on the moral high ground.

>>1425376
Why do you need to post in /news/?
>>1425395
>high ground
Well hello there, Darth Anakin

>>1425396
I have same question to you

>>1425399
you're hilariously esl

>>1425400
4chan is not english class, teacher pet

>>1425399
So basically 'no u'
Do I need to repeat what >>1425376 says? I think I will
>Low iq moment, even LMM has more intellectual capacity than you
Indeed.

>>1425401
but you'll still get laughed at for fucking up my language, shill. sorry, not sorry

>>1425399
>I have same question to you
>to
You sure that sentence uses that word?
Your English teacher would say it's 'I have the same question for you'. Said teacher would therefore agree with >>1425400
You also missed out 'the' between 'have' and 'same'.

>>1425396
Kek.

>>1425197
disagreeing with you, is not, in fact, treason. Especially if the disagreement is about whether you should be able to break the law and jeopardize our democracy.

>>1425402
No U!