The FBI purges the former acting director, other people involved in J6 proceedings

The FBI Thursday oust at least three officials, including the former acting director and an officer involved in the January 6 investigations, Fox News learned.

The former FBI acting director Brian Driscoll is one of those who are forced to leave the office, familiar sources with the case in Fox News, with Walter Giardina, a special agent of the office who played a role in the Trump’s sales advisor, Peter Navarro, and Steven Jensen, the acting director of Trump Trade Office.

Driscoll, for his part, was an acting director of the FBI before the confirmation of the director of the FBI Kash Patel, and Jensen played a key role in the January 6 investigations.

High officials of the FBI have told the agents in question that they should leave by Friday, for no specific reason given to them individually.

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Kash Patel, director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, arrives for a sub-comity of house credits on trade, justice, science and hearing of related agencies in Washington, DC, Wednesday, May 7, 2025. (Pete Kiehart / Bloomberg via Getty Images)

An individual with knowledge of the referrals described it as a “remuneration”.

People familiar with the case told Fox News that more or more or more expected at the office by the end of the week, although the exact number of staff included, or their roles in the office is not clear.

US lawyer Jeanine Pirro refused to answer several Fox News questions about FBI Outors at a press conference Thursday morning.

However, the news of their moves occur months after thousands of FBI members in February were forced to fulfill a sprawling questionnaire to ask employees detailed questions on any role that they would have played in the investigation on January 6, 2021, the riots of the American Capitol – ranging from the opportunity to testify in criminal tests when they participated for the last time in the investigation.

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President Trump appointed Brian Driscoll to be an acting director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation on Monday, January 20, 2025. (FBI)

The questionnaire, reported for the first time by Fox News Digital, aroused urgent fears concerning politicization within the office, and feared that it was used to retaliate against the agents involved in the investigations of January 6.

These concerns reached a fever ground later this month, after the deputy prosecutor general of the time, Emil Bove, ordered the office to compile a list of all the current and former staff who worked on investigations linked to January 6, 2021, a matter of riots.

This information included details on “thousands” of employees, including their unique identification number, their current title and their role and title at the time of the survey.

A group of current nine FBI agents And employees of the American district court subsequently filed a complaint on the list, quoting fears not to threaten their career and their risks disrupting the essential work of the office.

Ancient Ministry of Justice The officials cited the concerns that the probe or any measure of reprisals carried out accordingly could have a frightening effect on the work of the FBI, including its more than 52 distinct field offices.

President Donald Trump listens to an event to promote his proposal aimed at improving Americans’ access to their medical records in the East House Salle, Wednesday, July 30, 2025, in Washington, DC (AP / Mark Schiefelbein)

The Federal Bureau of Investigation Agents Association (FBIAA), a professional voluntary association which represents more than 14,000 special and retired FBI special agents, told Fox News in a statement on Thursday that they are “deeply concerned” by the enigmas reported and declared that they “actively examine all the legal options” to defend the FBI agents who have been summarized by the office process.

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The FBIAA is “deeply concerned about the reports according to which the FBI special agents – follow -up agents and senior officials – will be summarily dismissed without regular procedure to do their work investigating potential federal crimes,” the group said in a statement.

Robert F. Kennedy’s Building of the Ministry of Justice in Washington, DC (Kurt “Cyberguy” KTUSSON)

“The agents do not have the possibility of choosing their cases, and these agents have made their assignments with professionalism and integrity. More importantly, they followed the law,” said FBIAA.

Former FBI officials and the Ministry of Justice previously warned in interviews with Fox News Digital than such dismissals, During his stay in Trump authorityCould have a frightening effect on the rest of the office if the administration moves to get rid of the staff involved in the January 6 surveys.

The Trump administration has not yet said if it will move to take measures against the people involved.

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In February, president Donald Trump refused to answer questions about the question of whether his administration would delete FBI employees involved in the investigation on January 6, 2021, US Capitol Riot, telling journalists only that he believes that the office is “corrupt” and that the candidate of the Director of the FBI then, Kash Patel, “would straighten it”.

The FBI did not respond to Fox News’ comments.