We knew this lawsuit was coming. FBI Director Kash Patel was going to clean house and try to right the ship of our nation’s most preeminent law enforcement and domestic intelligence agency that political shenanigans had marred. The bureau was no longer seen as an apolitical institution. It became the Gestapo of the Democratic Party, whose political operations were often the source of mockery or ire. Their pursuit of the January 6 defendants and the cockamamie kidnapping plot against Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, which was never a serious threat as the alleged perpetrators were too stupid, are some of the marquee messes created by the FBI.
It was time to clean house. The bias within the bureau has been well-documented regarding the Russian collusion hoax. Thousands of Russiagate documents were found in burn bags, including the annex to the Durham report, which was a probe into the origins of this whole circus. Some people needed to go, so wrongful termination lawsuits were always on the horizon for Mr. Patel (via WaPo):
Before he was briefly named FBI’s acting director early this year, Brian Driscoll says, he got a call from a Trump administration official who peppered him with a series of pointed questions that appeared to be a loyalty test.
Among them: “Who did you vote for?” “When did you start supporting President Trump?” “Have you voted for a Democrat in the last five elections?” “Do you agree that the FBI agents who stormed Mar-a-Lago … should be held accountable?”
Driscoll, promoted to the temporary post despite refusing to answer most of the questions, detailed the episode in a federal lawsuit Wednesday in which he and two other former senior FBI officials allege they were ultimately fired by eventual FBI Director Kash Patel for unlawful and politically-motivated reasons that often appeared to be in response to social media posts from far-right critics.
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This is the first lawsuit from former FBI agents that challenges the administration’s unprecedented government employment terminations. It provides a rare view into how politically appointed leaders allegedly dismantled long-standing norms and appeared determined to indiscriminately fire anyone that they deemed may be disloyal to the president
Driscoll, who had worked at the bureau for two decades, recounted in the lawsuit that he refused to answer many of those questions because talking politics on the job was inappropriate and could violate a federal law barring such conversations by government employees.
According to the lawsuit, then-acting deputy attorney Emil Bove told Driscoll that he had “failed” the vetting interview, but that he would vouch for his character and push for him to serve in a top role until Patel was confirmed by the Senate.
Here we go again. This legal action will likely be a lengthy one, or it could be dismissed just as quickly, but I doubt it, given the slew of anti-Trump judges on the bench.
We’ll keep you updated.
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