President Donald Trump said he intended to fire some of the FBI personnel who worked on Capitol riot cases.
Earlier Friday, FBI agents and the Justice Department reached an agreement to avoid publication of a list of agents who had worked on Capitol riot investigations."I will fire some of them," Trump said, in answer to a reporter’s question at a news conference in Washington with the Japanese prime minister. He added:"We had some corrupt agents, and those people are gone or they will be gone, and it will be done quickly and very surgically.
“If their goal was to paralyze law enforcement,” one federal law enforcement official told NBC News, “they’ve achieved it.” Driscoll, who is popular within the bureau, told employees that the office of Acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove instructed him to hand over a list of names on Thursday. Driscoll wrote that, given FBI leadership’s “significant concerns” about the personal safety and security of FBI employees, the lists were provided “on the classified enclave” and had been labeled as sensitive law enforcement information.
“We also reiterated once again our concerns for the safety of our personnel, and the risks posed to you and your families should the lists become public,” Driscoll wrote in the letter to FBI employees., is confirmed as director. For now, Driscoll has won praise from within the bureau for standing up to Trump’s Justice Department leadership.
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