Top FBI leaders have until today to resign or be sent packing. They were given notice on Thursday, even as the prospective head of the FBI Kash Patel has not yet been confirmed.
James E. Dennehy, a veteran agent who has been in charge of the New York City field office, sent an internal memo calling this “a battle of our own.”
“Today, we find ourselves in the middle of a battle of our own, as good people are being walked out of the F.B.I. and others are being targeted because they did their jobs in accordance with the law and F.B.I. policy,” he wrote, according to the New York Times. He said it was time for him “to dig in.”
Dennehy is not reported to be among those asked to leave but at least five top officials in field offices in Miami, Philadelphia, Washington, New Orleans and Las Vegas were ordered to resign.
The Justice Department has ordered the FBI to “collect the names of bureau personnel who helped investigate the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol.” We know that the government violated the civil rights of many of those defendants and we are owed an explanation of how. The New York Times reports that the number of relevant agents “could reach 6,000 — or about a sixth of the bureau’s 38,000 employees, according to the F.B.I.”
