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Trump administration ousts top FBI official who resisted purge of Jan. 6 agents
A top FBI official who resisted President Donald Trump's purge of agents who participated in investigations of the Jan. 6 attack has reportedly been ousted. Brian Driscoll, a veteran agent who served as acting director of the FBI in the first weeks of the Trump administration, has been forced out of the bureau with Friday being his last day on the job, two people familiar with the situation told the Associated Press. Driscoll made headlines in late January when he resisted demands from the incoming Trump administration for information about FBI agents who participated in investigations into the 2021 attack on the Capitol by thousands of Trump supporters. Emil Bove, Trump's onetime personal lawyer who was then serving as a senior Justice Department official, wrote a memo at the time accusing Driscoll and other top FBI officials of 'insubordination.' The FBI eventually relented and provided personnel details about several thousand employees, albeit identifying them by unique employee numbers rather than by their names. It wasn't immediately clear why Driscoll was ousted now and if the firing is part of a larger purge. Spokespeople for the FBI and director Kash Patel declined to comment. Driscoll, a veteran agent who has worked on international counterterrorism investigations in New York and once led the bureau's Hostage Rescue Team, was named acting director in January after Christopher Wray quit at Trump's behest and while Patel's controversial nomination was pending. After Patel was confirmed by the Republican-controlled Senate, Driscoll was reassigned to lead an FBI division that deploys manpower and resources to crisis situations. The news comes amid a broader personnel purge that has unfolded over the last several months under the leadership of Patel and Deputy Director Dan Bongino, both MAGA loyalists. Several senior officials including top agents in charge of field offices have been pushed out of their jobs, and some agents have been subjected to polygraph exams, moves that have roiled the nation's premier law-enforcement agency. Another senior agent, Walter Giardina, who helped probe a case that sent the White House trade adviser Peter Navarro to prison, has also been ousted, the New York Times reported. In April, the bureau reassigned several agents who were photographed kneeling during a racial justice protest in Washington that followed the 2020 murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police officers. Agents who participated in probes of the bloody January 6 riot, which led to hundreds of successful prosecutions, and the investigations of Trump himself are looked upon with suspicion by MAGA loyalists, even though the agents were following orders from the Justice Department. Trump pardoned hundreds of Jan. 6 attackers, including those convicted of violently attacking police officers and a handful of white nationalist extremists who planned and led the attack, which was aimed at preventing Congress from certifying former President Joe Biden's 2020 election victory over Trump. _____
New York Times
19 minutes ago
- New York Times
Remains of 3 Victims of 9/11 Are Identified From Minuscule Evidence
After Barbara Keating was killed aboard a jet that crashed into the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001, her family had little hope of identifying her remains, beyond a piece of an A.T.M. card retrieved from the rubble. 'We had forensic experts telling us two decades ago, 'Really, you should not expect any DNA,'' her son, Paul Keating, said, 'because of the physical act of the explosion itself, because of the heat.' But around three years ago, the New York City medical examiner's office contacted the family: Its forensic scientists had identified what seemed to be a hairbrush that had belonged to Ms. Keating. Mr. Keating's brother and sister provided DNA samples, hoping that they would prove a match. On Thursday, they got a positive confirmation. Ms. Keating was one of three victims of the attacks on the World Trade Center whose remains had been identified, the medical examiner's office announced, as it continues a painstaking mission of identifying the remains of every victim of the attacks, decades later. The remains of Ryan Fitzgerald, who had worked as a foreign currency trader at Fiduciary Trust Company International, were also identified, along with a woman who was not named at the request of her family, the office said. The identifications bring the total number of remains matched to victims to 1,653 of the 2,753 killed at the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, according to the office. More than 90 percent of those identifications have come through DNA testing, according to the office's statistics. Want all of The Times? Subscribe.
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21 minutes ago
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NYPD, Mayor Eric Adams face another lawsuit from ex-employee who says she was fired in retaliation
The New York City Police Department and Mayor Eric Adams are facing yet another lawsuit from an ex-employee. This time it's from a former NYPD attorney who says she was fired in retaliation after investigating a high-ranking member of the department. Attorney Amy Litwin worked as the NYPD's deputy commissioner in the department advocate's office. She says her job required her to investigate misconduct, but when she investigated former Chief of Department Jeffrey Maddrey, Litwin says she was fired. Litwin's suit says she concluded in an internal report that Maddrey abused his authority and should be disciplined for voiding the 2021 arrest of a retired officer. But she says former NYPD commissioner Eddie Caban fired her in 2023 in retaliation. Sarena Townsend, a former internal affairs investigator herself for the Department of Correction until she was fired in 2022, is now representing Litwin in a lawsuit filed this week against the NYPD and the mayor. "Your career is just swiped out from under you, just for simply doing your job. It's a huge hit. It takes its toll emotionally, financially, and it's very hard to recover from that," Townsend said. "Let's be clear, Mayor Adams never directed the former police commissioner to terminate this individual — who he does not know. As with any administration, agency leaders — including those at the NYPD — have every right to hire, promote, and dismiss employees for critical roles. We will respond further in court," A City Hall spokesperson said in a statement Thursday: The spokesperson also claimed Townsend has a personal vendetta from her own firing, which Townsend denies. CBS News New York requested an interview with Litwin, and Townsend said she was not interested in speaking with us. Last month, four other former high-ranking NYPD members, including former Chief of Detectives James Essig, sued the NYPD and the mayor over accusations of fraudulent promotions, and Thomas Donlon claimed in a separate suit that he was removed as interim commissioner when he tried to report corruption and misconduct. Adams called that suit baseless at a news conference on July 16. "I can't help to believe some of the political aspects of these things that are popping out right now. This is the season for it," he said. "I don't think they're working for the opposition. I think it's just, you know, unfortunately, bad timing for Mayor Adams, who's running for reelection," said Michael Alcazar, a retired NYPD detective and John Jay College of Criminal Justice professor.
