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Former top FBI officials sue, say Kash Patel fired them to stay in Trump's good graces

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    Three former FBI officials---including former acting FBI Director Driscol---sued Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI director Kash Patel Wednesday, claiming they were fired on orders from the White House and Justice Department as retaliation for their work.

    Patel, the suit claimed, "explained he had to fire the people his superiors told him to fire, because his ability to keep his own job depended on the removal of the agents who worked on cases involving the President. Patel explained that there was nothing he or Driscoll could do to stop these or any other firings, because 'the FBI tried to put the President in jail and he hasn’t forgotten it.'"


    This lawsuit comes a month after NBC News reported that Driscoll, who briefly served as acting director at the beginning of President Donald Trump’s second term, was fired. Driscoll made headlines when he resisted a Justice Department directive to turn over a list of agents who had worked on Jan. 6 cases.
     
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    Great it is all crumbling around the morons.

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    This is not going to age well

    How confident are we in Kash about now?

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    In Jan 2025, during his confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Kash Patel assured the Committee
    and the country that ‘all FBI employees will be protected against political retribution.’”



    The lawsuit alleges Patel acknowledged to Driscoll that firing FBI agents without cause would violate internal FBI rules and
    probably federal law as well.

    “This is not a selfish endeavor,” Driscoll, who was fired after refusing to help gather names of FBI personnel involved in
    investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, Trump-fueled attack on the U.S. Capitol,

    “ I hope this effort results in protecting others who did no harm and committed no misconduct from wrongful consequences.”

    The FBI has been “completely politicized by individuals whose interests are contrary to the pursuit of law and order
    and the protection of our country's national security,” Mark Zaid, one of the lawyers on the case
     
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    Not confident he will be unbiased in running the FBI. The statement from the article above makes him seem like an appointed puppet of an Authoritarian regime. That, and the fact that he and Vance followed Trump around like lapdogs begging for treats during his campaign and trials, even going as far as dressing like him.

    "Patel, the suit claimed, "explained he had to fire the people his superiors told him to fire, because his ability to keep his own job depended on the removal of the agents who worked on cases involving the President."
     
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    Like yourself?
     
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    White House Official Busted Insulting ‘Giant Douche Canoe’ Kash Patel

    Salisbury simultaneously praised and insulted Patel. Specifically, Salisbury hailed the director’s decision to fire several FBI agents who had been photographed kneeling during a protest in 2020 after the murder of George Floyd:

    “This is how Kash survives,” Salisbury wrote. “He will do this stuff for the man but day to day giant douche canoe.”

    This week, Patel also fired an FBI trainee for having displayed a gay pride flag in the workplace last year.

    “You are being summarily dismissed from your position as a New Agent Trainee at the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia, and removed from the federal service,” Patel wrote. “After reviewing the facts and circumstances and considering your probationary status, I have determined that you exercised poor judgment with an inappropriate display of political signage in your work area during your previous assignment in the Los Angeles Field Office.”

    https://www.mediaite.com/politics/w...sted-insulting-giant-douche-canoe-kash-patel/
     
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    Nothing in this thread should surprise anyone.

    DEI = Dumb Entilted Idiots
     
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