Bondi Fires Her Personal Ethics Chief as DOJ Purge Continues... and he posted it on LinkedIn

[In It to Win It]

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/bondi-fires-her-personal-ethics-chief-as-doj-purge-continues

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/josephtirrell_fired-from-doj-without-cause-activity-7350484137532616704-cVlW

Joseph Tirrell
Former Department of Justice Senior Executive in Charge of Ethics
2 hours ago • Visible to anyone on or off LinkedIn

On Friday, July 11th, I received the below letter letter from Attorney General Pamela Bondi.

Until Friday evening, I was the senior ethics attorney at the Department of Justice responsible for advising the Attorney General and Deputy Attorney General directly on federal employee ethics. I was also responsible for the day-to-day operations of the ethics program across the Department. I led a small, dedicated team of professionals and coordinated the work of some 30 other full-time ethics officials, attorneys, paralegals and other specialists across the Department of Justice, ensuring that the 117,000 Department employees were properly advised on and supported in how to follow the Federal employee ethics rules.

My career in public service has so far spanned a quarter of a century. I started as a United States Naval Officer, graduating from the ROTC program at the University of Michigan. After a 6-year military career, I earned a law Degree from the Detroit School of Law at Michigan State University. I started at the FBI in 2006 in the Presidential Management Fellows Program. At the FBI, I worked in a variety of offices thanks to the PMF program and eventually I went to work for the FBI’s Office of Integrity and Compliance. From there, I moved to the Departmental Ethics Office at Main Justice as Deputy Director. Finally, in 2023, I was promoted to the Senior Executive Service and the Position of Director of the Ethics Office.

My public service is not over, and my career as a Federal civil servant is not finished. I took the oath at 18 as a Midshipman to “support and defend the Constitution of the United States.” I have taken that oath at least five more times since then. That oath did not come with the caveat that I need only support the Constitution when it is easy or convenient. I look forward to finding ways to continue in my personal calling of service to my country. I encouraged anyone who is reading this to do the same. I believe in the words of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. - "the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice." I also believe that Edmund Burke is right and that "the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do nothing."

I received a number of calls and messages of support in the last few days. Thank you to everyone who has reached out. Be well.

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[UpInArms]

1. Ethics are soooo inconvenient

You cannot legislate morality, you can only enforce rules about ethics

[Mike Nelson]

2. Ethics Chief?

... ethics? ETHICS?

[surfered]

11. "We don't need no stinkin' ethics."

[Mysterian]

3. Finally some government efficiency

Having an ethics advisor for Gestapo Barbie is a complete waste of money.

[whopis01]

4. A Personal Ethics Chief for her sounds like a prime example of government waste

Why have a Chief for something that doesn't even exist?

[tanyev]

5. Yep. In Trump's DOJ, that position is as useful as an inflatable dartboard.

[hedda_foil]

7. That was misstated. He was the chief of the DOJ's ethics department.

[whopis01]

8. I think my comment still stands

Even if you apply it to the Trump DoJ as an entity instead of just Bondi.

[Kid Berwyn]

6. Hope he CC'd the Pentagon.gov.

Hope also he sends them an application.

[Javaman]

9. she has on ethics so what's the point of that position? nt

[BoRaGard]

10. Did Trump's GOP-pal Epstein drop a dime?

or is she trying to draw attention away
from her intimate associations with a cluster Fasict Cucks (R) ?

[Ray Bruns]

12. The only thing shocking about this is the fact Pam Bondi even had an ethics chief.

[Brainfodder]

13. Actual watchdogs left in place? You can not be seriously expecting this Trumple to allow such things no matter OPTICS?

[Wild blueberry]

14. Bravo, Mr Tirrell

You are showing how it's done. Thank you.

[republianmushroom]

15. Ethic's, don't need any of that.

DOJ just following the roberts SCOUS path. They don't have any and haven't for sometime now. IMO

[ThoughtCriminal]

16. I'll bet this has been a long 6 months for anyone who took their oath seriously

Having to advise people who clearly have less than zero ethics would be hell.