A top FBI official who resisted President Trump’s purge of agents who participated in investigations of the Jan. 6 attack has reportedly been ousted.
Brian Driscoll, a veteran agent who served as acting director of the FBI in the first weeks of the Trump administration, has been forced out of the bureau with Friday being his last day on the job, two people familiar with the situation told the Associated Press.
Driscoll made headlines in late January when he resisted demands from the incoming Trump administration for information about FBI agents who participated in investigations into the 2021 attack on the Capitol by thousands of Trump supporters.
Emil Bove, Trump’s onetime personal lawyer who was then serving as a senior Justice Department official, wrote a memo at the time accus