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WSJ: How Trump's Sweeping Expulsions Have Thrown the FBI Into Chaos
WSJ - (archived: https://archive.ph/mMzj1 ) How Trump’s Sweeping Expulsions Have Thrown the FBI Into Chaos
Firings at the Justice Department and FBI herald revenge—and a broad shift from white-collar and national-security cases to illegal immigration and street crime
By Sadie Gurman, C. Ryan Barber and Aruna Viswanatha
Feb. 5, 2025 9:00 pm ET
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At the Justice Department and FBI, the expulsions have been swift and far-reaching, targeting investigators and prosecutors involved in the Trump probes. More than two dozen senior career officials across both agencies and dozens more prosecutors have already been pushed out. The Trump administration has set about compiling lists of thousands of others it will review, sparking fears that many more could be fired.
The administration has also signaled it would shift more of the FBI’s 38,000 agents, analysts and technical experts to illegal immigration, which traditionally held a limited role for the bureau.
For the past decade, leaders at the FBI and Justice Department have concentrated on threats from overseas, including terrorism, cybercrimes, as well as Chinese and Russian espionage—including the vast “Salt Typhoon” hack of the U.S. telecom system attributed to Beijing and the Kremlin’s escalating acts of sabotage.
Kash Patel, Trump’s pick to run the FBI, is expected to shrink the bureau’s counterintelligence and counterterrorism work, according to his aides. During a Senate confirmation hearing last week, Patel mentioned China only in passing and didn’t speak about any threat from Russia. Republicans said the bureau had for years unfairly targeted Trump and the GOP.
Patel, a Trump surrogate during the president’s 2024 campaign, will likely move agents from securities fraud, antitrust violations and other white-collar cases to pursue drug-trafficking and violent street crime, according to his aides.
/snip
Firings at the Justice Department and FBI herald revenge—and a broad shift from white-collar and national-security cases to illegal immigration and street crime
By Sadie Gurman, C. Ryan Barber and Aruna Viswanatha
Feb. 5, 2025 9:00 pm ET
/snip/
At the Justice Department and FBI, the expulsions have been swift and far-reaching, targeting investigators and prosecutors involved in the Trump probes. More than two dozen senior career officials across both agencies and dozens more prosecutors have already been pushed out. The Trump administration has set about compiling lists of thousands of others it will review, sparking fears that many more could be fired.
The administration has also signaled it would shift more of the FBI’s 38,000 agents, analysts and technical experts to illegal immigration, which traditionally held a limited role for the bureau.
For the past decade, leaders at the FBI and Justice Department have concentrated on threats from overseas, including terrorism, cybercrimes, as well as Chinese and Russian espionage—including the vast “Salt Typhoon” hack of the U.S. telecom system attributed to Beijing and the Kremlin’s escalating acts of sabotage.
Kash Patel, Trump’s pick to run the FBI, is expected to shrink the bureau’s counterintelligence and counterterrorism work, according to his aides. During a Senate confirmation hearing last week, Patel mentioned China only in passing and didn’t speak about any threat from Russia. Republicans said the bureau had for years unfairly targeted Trump and the GOP.
Patel, a Trump surrogate during the president’s 2024 campaign, will likely move agents from securities fraud, antitrust violations and other white-collar cases to pursue drug-trafficking and violent street crime, according to his aides.
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Just like in Trump's first term, nearly every big decision he made, it was always the wrong decision.
Is it on purpose?
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