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Top NYC FBI Agent Who Resisted Demands to Betray Investigators of January 6 Has Been Forced Out [1]
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Date: 2025-03-03
Oh man it just gets better.
So, on top of betraying Ukraine (Trump has stopped all military aid to Ukraine as of this evening) and the implementation of steep tariffs on Canada and Mexico as of now, and increasing the tariffs on China, which is retaliating; and stopping cyberdefense against Russia, leaving us wide open to attack, the top FBI agent in NYC’s field office has been forced to resign. Oh that’s besides the DOGE racket, about which do not get me started.
Those sonsabitches.
Anyway, the Trump “Department of Justice” had demanded that FBI reveal and fire agents who’d worked on the January 6 investigations and brave James Dennehy resisted. He told the other agents to “dig in,” which was correct as these workers must be fired only for cause not for political reasons.
Alas he has been forced to “retire.”
From the NYT,
The top agent at the F.B.I.’s New York field office said in an email Monday that he had been forced out of his job, following clashes with Justice Department officials over Trump administration directives. The veteran agent, James E. Dennehy, was told Friday to retire from his role leading the F.B.I.’s largest field office, delivering another blow to the senior ranks of the bureau. Mr. Dennehy, who had been running the office since September, had angered Trump administration officials by supporting bureau leaders who resisted turning over the names of those who investigated the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. Mr. Dennehy had also angered Attorney General Pam Bondi by what she claimed was the New York office’s failure to turn over all the investigative files related to Jeffrey Epstein, the financier charged with sex trafficking who killed himself in prison. Ms. Bondi provided no evidence to back up her assertion. “Late Friday, I was informed that I needed to put my retirement papers in today, which I just did,” Mr. Dennehy wrote Monday in an email to colleagues. “I was not given a reason for this decision. Regardless, I apologize to all of you for not being able to fulfill my commitment to you.”
This is infuriating. And it’s leaving the people without a defense. It is leaving the people wide open to the Russian spies and mob bosses and insane tech psychopaths and neoNazis who unfortunately appear to be running our beautiful country right into the ground.
Where the hell are the Republicans? Are there no more patriots in their midst?
I sound like Cicero, screaming into the wind.
We have the value of history. We can read about the fall of the Roman Republic. Tragic as it was at least it fell to Caesar, a genuine war hero; and not to an orange buffoon who has betrayed his country to a Russian dictator, a man who murders people who oppose him.
This is obnoxious.
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