The recent wave of firings at the FBI by Director Kash Patel is being condemned by agency sources who say employees have been caught between the opposing political priorities of the Trump and Biden administrations.
FBI veterans are also concerned about the loss of experienced agents in the nation’s top law-enforcement agency.
At least 10 FBI employees — agents, analysts and supervisors — who worked on former Special Counsel Jack Smith’s investigation into President Trump’s retention of classified documents at Mar-a-Lago were fired last Wednesday. Subsequent terminations occurred on Thursday, bringing the estimate to about a dozen over the course of two days.
The firings may include personnel who had been ordered by their superiors to take part in investigating Mr. Trump following the raid on Mar-a-Lago for classified documents.
Some FBI employees, who felt uncomfortable about being told to work on these cases, contacted attorneys who advised their clients to do the bare minimum of what was asked of them to keep their jobs.
“They objected. They did what they had to do, but they objected to it, and they were told, ‘You all f—-ing go. You’ll have no f—-ing choice,’” a retired FBI agent told The Washington Times.
“These were all loyalty tests,” the retired agent said. “You have a lot of people who did things under duress. They did the bare minimum under duress. They were just like, ‘I’m f——d. I have to do this.’”
The options, according to the retired agent, were limited:...
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