Sacked FBI officials file lawsuit against bureau
(MENAFN) Several former senior FBI officials filed a lawsuit on Wednesday, claiming they were targeted in a politically motivated campaign orchestrated at the direction of President Donald Trump.
The suit, brought by ex-Acting FBI Director Brian Driscoll, senior Washington, D.C. field officer Steven Jensen, and Las Vegas field office chief Spencer Evans, asserts that the Trump administration engaged in what they described as a "campaign of retribution," punishing them for not showing “sufficient political loyalty.”
According to the lawsuit, FBI Director Kash Patel knowingly broke the law by dismissing the officials under orders from the White House but went ahead with the firings to protect his own position. The plaintiffs argue that they “were the targets of Defendants’ retribution for their refusals to politicize the FBI, and they seek to vindicate their constitutional and legal rights.”
The complaint references several discussions between the senior officials, Patel, and other Trump administration members as evidence of alleged political targeting of FBI employees. “Patel explained that he had to fire the people his superiors told him to fire, because his ability to keep his own job depended on the removal of the agents who worked on cases involving the President. Patel explained that there was nothing he or Driscoll could do to stop these or any other firings, because 'the FBI tried to put the President in jail and he hasn’t forgotten it,'” the 68-page suit recounts, detailing one of the alleged conversations between Driscoll and Patel.
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