{"id":32258,"date":"2025-02-03T16:29:44","date_gmt":"2025-02-03T16:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/03\/fbi-in-battle-with-trump-amid-purge-of-officials-top-agent-warns-staff\/"},"modified":"2025-02-03T16:29:44","modified_gmt":"2025-02-03T16:29:44","slug":"fbi-in-battle-with-trump-amid-purge-of-officials-top-agent-warns-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/03\/fbi-in-battle-with-trump-amid-purge-of-officials-top-agent-warns-staff\/","title":{"rendered":"FBI in \u2018battle\u2019 with Trump amid purge of officials, top agent warns staff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>James E Dennehy vows to \u2018dig in\u2019 as president targets bureau officials over January 6 investigations<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2025\/feb\/03\/donald-trump-trade-tariffs-eu-mexico-canada-china-us-politics-live\">US politics live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The assistant director at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/fbi\">FBI<\/a>\u2019s New York field office reportedly told staff in an email that they were in the \u201cmiddle of a battle\u201d and that it was time for him to \u201cdig in\u201d as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/trump-administration\">Trump administration<\/a> targets bureau officials who investigated the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/us-capitol-breach\">January 6 attack on the Capitol<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday, we find ourselves in the middle of a battle of our own, as good people are being walked out of the FBI and others are being targeted because they did their jobs in accordance with the law and FBI policy,\u201d wrote James E Dennehy, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fbi.gov\/news\/press-releases\/james-dennehy-named-assistant-director-in-charge-of-the-new-york-field-office\">who has led <\/a>the New York field office since last September, in an email viewed and reported by<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/02\/us\/politics\/fbi-new-york-email-trump.html\"> the New York Times.<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/feb\/03\/trump-fbi-james-e-dennehy\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James E Dennehy vows to \u2018dig in\u2019 as president targets bureau officials over January 6 investigations US politics live \u2013 latest updates The assistant director at the FBI\u2019s New York field office reportedly told staff in an email that they were in the \u201cmiddle of a battle\u201d and that it was time for him to &#8230; <a title=\"FBI in \u2018battle\u2019 with Trump amid purge of officials, top agent warns staff\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/03\/fbi-in-battle-with-trump-amid-purge-of-officials-top-agent-warns-staff\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about FBI in \u2018battle\u2019 with Trump amid purge of officials, top agent warns staff\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}