FBI Director Kash Patel is trimming the bureau’s bloated pool of agents, and those who are supportive of the radical “woke” agenda. Daniel Edward Rosen reports in The New York Sun:
An estimated 800 FBI employees — including a significant number of special agents — will leave the bureau’s payrolls at midnight Tuesday, the result of the “fork in the road” buyout deals offered by the Department of Governmental Efficiency earlier this year.
Roughly 40 percent of those departing are special agents, according to those familiar with the personnel changes.
An FBI spokesman did not respond to messages from the Sun requesting comment. The FBI Agents Association also did not respond to questions Tuesday.
It is the latest in a series of departures and firings taking place since FBI Director Kash Patel took command earlier this year. Last week, FBI leaders fired over a dozen agents who were photographed kneeling during a 2020, Washington-area Black Lives Matters protest. Several other supervisory special agents, all female, had already been reassigned in April after being seen kneeling in the picture.
In August, Mr. Patel and his co-deputy director, Dan Bongino, dismissed several high-ranking officials who’d been involved in separate Trump investigations. This included a former acting FBI director, Brian Driscoll, who pushed back against the Trump administration’s efforts to identify agents who worked on the January 6th investigation.
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