(Washington) Three former senior FBI officials, the American federal police, abruptly dismissed in August, accuse the director of the FBI, Kash Patel in a complaint, of having “politicized” this agency to complace his superiors, including President Donald Trump.
Among these three officials is Brian Driscoll, Director of the acting FBI during the first month of Donald Trump’s mandate, until the entry into office of Kash Patel, close to the republican billionaire and a figure of the conspiratorial sphere.
The three men, Brian Driscoll, Steven Jensen and Spencer Evans, accumulating 60 years of seniority in the police, according to the complaint, qualified their dismissal on August 8 by Mr. Patel of “illegal” and in particular claim their reintegration.
They say they were sanctioned for their “refusal to politicize the FBI”, in particular by opposing the dismissals of agents whose only wrong was to be considered insufficiently aligned on the priorities of the new administration or publicly denounced by the Donald Trump base.
Solicited by AFP on these claims, the FBI refused to comment immediately.
During a meeting on August 5 between Brian Driscoll and Kash Patel to dissuade him from dismissing an agent, the director of the FBI explained to him that to keep his post himself he was forced to refer all those who worked on criminal procedures against Donald Trump before his election, according to the complaint.
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Brian Driscoll
“The FBI tried to put the president in prison and he did not forget it,” said Kash Patel document during this conversation with Brian Driscoll.
Donald Trump systematically attributed criminal procedures against him to “instrumentalization of justice” by the Democratic Administration of his predecessor Joe Biden.
“They violated the law on a colossal scale, persecuted my family, my team and my supporters, searched my residence in Mar-A-Lago, and did everything in their power to prevent me from becoming president of the United States,” he said during a rare speech to the Ministry of Justice in March.
