Trump fires FBI official Brian Driscoll and two others

[Rogue Valley]

Donald Trump has fired Brian Driscoll, a senior FBI official who briefly served as the agency's Acting Director in the early days of the Trump administration; Assistant Director in Charge of the Washington Field Office Steven Jensen; and Washington-based Special Agent Walter Giardina.

In 2007, Driscoll joined the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) as a special agent. He was first assigned to the New York field office, where he worked in organized crime and later became a member of the regional SWAT team.[3] In 2011, he was selected for the Hostage Rescue Team, the elite tactical unit of the agency, serving in the Blue Squadron.[1] In this role, Driscoll was part of two notable raids. First, in 2013, his unit was sent to Alabama and successfully saved a five year old boy who had been taken hostage in a bunker.[1] Two years later, he was part of a raid in Syria along with Delta Force, involved in rescue efforts of Kayla Mueller who had been taken hostage by the Islamic State. The operation led to the elimination of a top Islamic State official and the capture of his wife.[1] Driscoll returned to New York in 2019 to work as a supervisory special agent to establish and lead two joint task forces concerning violent crimes, child exploitation, and human trafficking.[1] In 2020, Driscoll was transferred to the New York Joint Terrorism Task Force to lead the North Africa international terrorism investigations squad. Driscoll was later promoted to serve as the assistant special agent in charge of the New York Joint Terrorism Task Force Extraterritorial Terrorism Branch.[3] He was promoted in 2022 to head of the Hostage Rescue Team and tactical section chief of the Critical Incident Response Group.[1] As of July 2025, following a brief tenure as Acting Director, Driscoll serves as an Assistant Director of the FBI's Critical Incident Response Group (CIRG).[5]

On January 31, 2025, as part of a planned mass termination of federal law enforcement officials[7] under the second Trump administration, the FBI under Driscoll was ordered to fire eight senior executives and compile a list of potentially thousands of other employees involved in investigations stemming from the January 6 United States Capitol attack.[8][9][10][11] Driscoll said that the list of such employees included himself and acting deputy director Kissane.[12][13][7] The order came from Emil Bove, a former criminal defense attorney for Trump who became the Trump administration's acting Deputy Attorney General.[12][14] Driscoll refused to endorse the effort to purge agents and pushed back "so forcefully that some FBI officials knew he would be dismissed."[12][15] [15] He was fired by President Trump on August 7, 2025.[16]

Brian Driscoll - Wikipedia

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The authoritarian Donald Trump continues to purge the US government of officials who did their jobs and enforced the law regarding the 2021 attack on the US Capital.

Trump is firing every government employeee who literally had anything to do with prosecuting the 1,270 Trump supporters who attacked the US Capital on January 6, 2021, injuring 144 police officers.

Trump has pardoned everyone convicted in the January 6 attack.

Folks, these FBI agents are not easily replacable. It takes years and years to train FBI agents in law enforcement and counter-terrorism. America is less safe after the firing of these three patriots.

FBI Special Agent Walter Giardina is a Marine combat veteran whose wife died of cancer last month at age 49.

With Trump sychophant Kash Patel as Director, the atmosphere at the FBI these days is not good, and hundreds of FBI agents are looking for employment elsewhere.

'Climate of fear' at the FBI after 'ongoing purge' of leadership, says reporter

A senior FBI official who briefly served as acting director at the beginning of President Donald Trump's second term has been fired, two federal law enforcement sources told NBC News. The official, Brian Driscoll, made headlines when he resisted a Justice Department directive to turn over a list...

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[Allan]

FBI Special Agent Walter Giardina is a Marine combat veteran whose wife died of cancer last month at age 49.

This is seriously ****ed up.

Right wing extremism is the biggest terrorist threat to safety and security Americans face. Not only Americans as those groups also exist in Canada and Europe as well as other countries.

The message to American law enforcement could not be more clear: leave these groups be.

 

[RedFishBlueFish]

Donald Trump has fired Brian Driscoll, a senior FBI official who briefly served as the agency's Acting Director in the early days of the Trump administration; Assistant Director in Charge of the Washington Field Office Steven Jensen; and Washington-based Special Agent Walter Giardina.

Brian Driscoll - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

The authoritarian Donald Trump continues to purge the US government of officials who did their jobs and enforced the law regarding the 2021 attack on the US Capital.

Trump is firing every government employeee who literally had anything to do with prosecuting the 1,270 Trump supporters who attacked the US Capital on January 6, 2021, injuring 144 police officers.

Trump has pardoned everyone convicted in the January 6 attack.

Folks, these FBI agents are not easily replacable. It takes years and years to train FBI agents in law enforcement and counter-terrorism. America is less safe after the firing of these three patriots.

FBI Special Agent Walter Giardina is a Marine combat veteran whose wife died of cancer last month at age 49.

With Trump sychophant Kash Patel as Director, the atmosphere at the FBI these days is not good, and hundreds of FBI agents are looking for employment elsewhere.

'Climate of fear' at the FBI after 'ongoing purge' of leadership, says reporter

A senior FBI official who briefly served as acting director at the beginning of President Donald Trump's second term has been fired, two federal law enforcement sources told NBC News. The official, Brian Driscoll, made headlines when he resisted a Justice Department directive to turn over a list...

www.yahoo.com

Trump's march toward authoritarianism is blatant. Some MAGAs are too dumb to see it. Most support it.

 

[SNOWFLAKE]

Righties will be rubbing their hands in glee as this sign of retribution.

 

[Integrityrespec]

Donald Trump has fired Brian Driscoll, a senior FBI official who briefly served as the agency's Acting Director in the early days of the Trump administration; Assistant Director in Charge of the Washington Field Office Steven Jensen; and Washington-based Special Agent Walter Giardina.

Brian Driscoll - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

The authoritarian Donald Trump continues to purge the US government of officials who did their jobs and enforced the law regarding the 2021 attack on the US Capital.

Trump is firing every government employeee who literally had anything to do with prosecuting the 1,270 Trump supporters who attacked the US Capital on January 6, 2021, injuring 144 police officers.

Trump has pardoned everyone convicted in the January 6 attack.

Folks, these FBI agents are not easily replacable. It takes years and years to train FBI agents in law enforcement and counter-terrorism. America is less safe after the firing of these three patriots.

FBI Special Agent Walter Giardina is a Marine combat veteran whose wife died of cancer last month at age 49.

With Trump sychophant Kash Patel as Director, the atmosphere at the FBI these days is not good, and hundreds of FBI agents are looking for employment elsewhere.

'Climate of fear' at the FBI after 'ongoing purge' of leadership, says reporter

A senior FBI official who briefly served as acting director at the beginning of President Donald Trump's second term has been fired, two federal law enforcement sources told NBC News. The official, Brian Driscoll, made headlines when he resisted a Justice Department directive to turn over a list...

www.yahoo.com

This is what happens around the real world when you get into a pissing match with your boss.

 

[Luce]

This is seriously ****ed up.

Right wing extremism is the biggest terrorist threat to safety and security Americans face. Not only Americans as those groups also exist in Canada and Europe as well as other countries.

The message to American law enforcement could not be more clear: leave these groups be.

Well, yes. MAGAs just LOVE them some Nazis.

 

[Integrityrespec]

Righties will be rubbing their hands in glee as this sign of retribution.

I'm wondering what would have happened when the IRS was ordered to go after right wing groups during the IRS Targeting scandal if the director at the time, Lois Lerner, had said No? Think they would have gotten a new director?

 

[Rogue Valley]

I'm wondering what would have happened when the IRS was ordered to go after right wing groups during the IRS Targeting scandal if the director at the time, Lois Lerner, had said No? Think they would have gotten a new director?

This is the second thread of mine today that you engage in whataboutism.

No original thoughts on the OP? Too difficult for ya?

Only a MAGA diversionist could get from the FBI (OP) to the IRS (above), and on the first page!