Overview

• On August 7, the FBI informed Brian Driscoll, Steven Jensen and Walter Giardina that August 8 would be their last day in the bureau.
• The dismissals are the latest in a sustained personnel purge by Director Kash Patel and Deputy Director Dan Bongino targeting senior officials perceived as disloyal.
• Driscoll became notable for defying a February Justice Department directive from Emil Bove to furnish names of agents working on January 6 cases, providing only anonymized employee numbers.
• The FBI has offered no public rationale for the firings and declined to comment when approached by multiple news outlets.
• The FBI Agents Association and lawmakers such as Sen. Mark Warner have decried the removals as political retribution and are exploring legal and legislative challenges to safeguard the bureau’s apolitical mandate.