The Trump administration is continuing its retributive purge of agents and prosecutors who participated in criminal investigations of President Trump. This time, Director Kash Patel of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, fresh from whatever official investigative business he was handling in Rome, has reportedly fired ten bureau employees, including some experienced agents. Their offense was involvement in the probe of Trump’s illegal retention of classified intelligence documents and his obstruction of a grand jury investigation into that matter.
It’s important to understand that FBI personnel are assigned to investigations; they do not get to choose what they work on. Of course, they can ask not to work on a case if doing so would present a conflict of interest. But apart from that rare situation, agents take orders from their chain of command.
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