The Trump administration has asked the FBI for a list of all probationary employees and explanations for why each one should remain on the job, raising fresh concerns within an agency already unsettled by the first three weeks of Donald Trump’s presidency.
The FBI has provided the Justice Department with names of employees who worked on January 6-related cases after a tense standoff over protecting agent identities.
A top Justice Department official assured FBI agents they wouldn’t be fired for working on Jan. 6 investigations and accused bureau leaders of insubordination for initially refusing to release their names.
The FBI has named Mehtab Syed to serve as the special agent in charge of the FBI’s Salt Lake City Field Office.
Brian Driscoll, the acting FBI director, has unexpectedly become a symbol of quiet resistance against Justice Department efforts to scrutinize agents who investigated the Jan. 6 riot
Senate Judiciary Chair Chuck Grassley said Tuesday his committee plans to vote on FBI director nominee Kash Patel as early as next week.
By Steve Neavling FBI agents investigating “unidentified anomalous phenomena” (UAPs) fear they could lose their jobs in a potential purge of officials involved in Jan. 6 cases, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter, Politico reports. The secretive FBI working group, which has never been publicly disclosed before, consists of a national program manager…
A federal watchdog has cleared a top official of conflicts of interest in the selection of a Maryland site for the new FBI headquarters but found flaws in the decision-making process that gave the location an unfair advantage.
