The FBI employee was fired on the first day of the government shutdown as President Trump threatened more terminations.

The FBI employee was fired on the first day of the government shutdown as Trump threatened more terminations.

FBI Director Kash Patel on Wednesday fired an agent in training for displaying a gay pride flag on his desk while appointed to a field office in California last year, according to three people familiar with the matter.

The trainee, who previously worked as an FBI support specialist in Los Angeles, received a letter — dated Oct. 1 and signed by Patel — claiming he had displayed an improper “political” message in the workplace during his assignment in California under President Joe Biden, according to a copy of the letter shared with MSNBC.

The letter cited President Donald Trump’s Article II powers under the Constitution to dismiss federal agency career personnel, a justification used in several recent firings at the Department of Justice and FBI. The terminations are currently being challenged in several lawsuits.

  • altphoto@lemmy.today
    14·
    2 months ago

    His physical appearance is not his fault or the thing that I disagree with. Its the evil decisions that irk me.

    Like we had a department of defense that protected us from outside threats. But we renamed it department of war and pointed it at ourselves. WTF! How does that make any sense at all?

    • SoloCritical@lemmy.world
      16·
      2 months ago

      They didn’t even rename it, it’s still the Department of Defesne… they couldn’t get the votes to actually change it. Department of War is a “cool nickname” Hegseth gave the department, it’s officially a “secondary name”. Sort of like their preferred pronoun. Don’t deadname them, I’m sure they’d hate to keep getting called Department of Defense.

    • ILoveUnions@lemmy.world
      1·
      2 months ago

      Like we had a department of defense that protected us from outside threats

      It’s always been a department of war.