FBI Director Kash Patel continues in his aims for transparency, accountability, and restoration of the FBI back to a law enforcement agency rather than an enforcement arm for political retribution. Thursday's news of the removal of former Acting Director Brian Driscoll is causing the pearls to be clutched by legacy media and left-wing outlets whose constant fodder during President Donald Trump 45's term was the Russia collusion hoax.
A senior FBI official who served as acting director in the first weeks of the Trump administration and resisted demands to turn over the names of agents who participated in the Jan. 6, 2021, investigations is being forced out of the bureau, two people familiar with the matter said Thursday.
The circumstances of Brian Driscoll’s ouster were not immediately clear, but his final day is Friday, said the people, who were not authorized to discuss the personnel move by name and spoke to The Associated Press on the condition of anonymity. Additional ousters were possible.
Driscoll was a long-time careerist who came under fire due to his actions to allegedly protect his fellow agents involved in the January 6 mess.
Driscoll, a veteran agent who worked international counterterrorism investigations in New York and had also commanded the bureau’s Hostage Rescue Team, had most recently served as acting director in charge of the Critical Incident Response Group, which deploys manpower and resources to crisis situations.
Driscoll was named acting director in January to replace Christopher Wray and served in the position as Patel’s nomination was pending.
He made headlines after he and Rob Kissane, the then-deputy director, resisted Trump administration demands for information about agents who participated in investigations into the Jan. 6 riot by a mob of President Donald Trump's supporters at the U.S. Capitol.
But Driscoll is one of several heads set to roll.
Driscoll’s removal appears to be part of a wider purge.
Other outlets reported Thursday that Steve Jensen, the acting director in charge of the Washington Field Office, was asked to leave, as was Walter Giardina, an agent who worked on a number of cases involving President Trump.
The removal of Special Agent Walter Giardina has been months in the making. A whistleblower exposed Giardina's missteps, which include pushing the Steele Dossier as verifiable fact and targeting and prosecuting then-White House Trade Council director Peter Navarro.
Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) documented Giardina's underhanded deeds in a June 5 letter to Patel.
Further, on April 29, 2025, I sent a letter to you highlighting the political weaponization by the FBI against Peter Navarro.3 In that letter I made public FBI emails regarding the investigation and later prosecution of Navarro. These communications provide a behind-the-scenes snapshot of some of the actions taken by the FBI’s Washington Field Office (WFO) to investigate Navarro for contempt of Congress and obstruction. The emails show that Special Agent (SA) Walter Giardina played a significant role in the investigation and ultimate prosecution of Navarro.4 My office has also been informed that SA Giardina was involved in Arctic Frost, Crossfire Hurricane, Special Counsel Mueller’s investigation, which he received an award for the latter, as well as the Dan Scavino, Roger Stone, and Hillary Clinton cases.
Giardina appears to have his fingerprints on all the Deep State investigations which targeted President Trump. Grassley's letter also outlined Giardina's personal animus toward the President and his desire to see him prosecuted.
In this letter, I’m also raising legally protected whistleblower allegations regarding SA Giardina’s misconduct while on the taxpayers’ dime that ought to be investigated to determine their truth and veracity. If the allegations are true, he and everyone else involved, must be held accountable. With respect to allegations of misconduct against SA Giardina, based on legally protected whistleblower disclosures to my office, he was allegedly involved in the following:
- SA Giardina was an initial recipient of the Steele Dossier and falsely said that the dossier was corroborated as true.
- SA Giardina stated openly his animosity toward President Trump and made known his personal motivation to investigate Trump.
- SA Giardina electronically wiped the laptop he was assigned while working for Special Counsel Mueller outside of established protocol for record preservation raising the possibility that he destroyed government records. The destruction of the laptop was reported to the DOJ Office of Inspector General (OIG).
- SA Giardina instructed agents to use false Emolument Clause predication on President Trump to “dig around.”
- SA Giardina was a case agent assigned to the Crimson River case, later changed to Red Maasari. This case was leaked, by whom it is not known, to the Washington Post in August 2024 roughly 90 days before the presidential election in an attempt to falsely discredit President Trump.
Among these allegations, it appears Giardina is also connected with those Trump-Russia probe documents which were discovered in burn bags.
The allegations against SA Giardina regarding his potential mishandling and destruction of federal records is consistent with a Justice Department Freedom of Information Act release suggesting that multiple members of Special Counsel Mueller’s team may have destroyed federal records.6 Thus, it appears that not only did Special Counsel Mueller’s team park federal records in “Prohibited Access” status making them unreviewable, his team also destroyed federal records.
Read it Here: Kash Patel Finds Comey's Secret Room at FBI Containing 'Burn Bags' Full of Trump-Russia Probe Documents
In 2017/18, I proved the Steele Dossier was fictitious intelligence, weaponized by corrupt FBI officials to deceive a federal judge and unlawfully spy on then presidential candidate Trump’s campaign- all paid for by his opponent.
The media called me a liar.
Now I’m the FBI Director: We just uncovered burn bags/room filled with hidden Russia Gate files, including the Durham annex, and declassified them.
Once again, I released the prior FBI’s own documents and exposed the truth.
The same media is calling me a liar again.
Maybe this FBI will release more docs directly, from FBI HQ... so we can see who is lying- wouldn't want to deprive the fake news of more bogus Pulitzers.
And then…
While the legacy media continues to question Patel's motives and call him a liar as he stated above, the Deep State which works to erode our constitutional government and install elitists, is being eradicated one bad actor at a time.
Editor's Note: The Deep State is working overtime to subvert President Trump's agenda and the will of the people.
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