The high FBI official forced Trump for the search for agents who investigated on January 6

Washington – The Chief of the FBI New York Field Office was forced on Monday, a month after he urged his employees to “dig” after the Trump administration eliminated the FBI leaders and requested the names of all the agents who worked on January 6, five sources familiar with the matter told NBC News.

In an email to FBI staff members in New York on Monday, James Dennehy confirmed that he had been ordered to leave.

“On Friday night, they informed me that I needed to put my retirement documents today, what I just did,” Dennehy wrote. “They didn’t give me a reason for this decision.”

Two of the sources said Dennehy received the option to give up or be fired.

Last month, Dennehy wrote an email to his staff after the Trump Department of Justice, Directed by the Interim Deputy Attorney General Emil Bovedemanded a List of all office employees who had worked in criminal cases against Trump supporters who assaulted the Capitol on January 6, 2021.

“Today, we are in the midst of our own battle, since good people are being outflows,” Dennehy wrote. “And others are being attacked because they did their job according to the law and policy of the FBI.”

“It’s time for Cave,” Dennehy said.

Dennehy referred to the expulsion of eight veteran leaders of the FBI, including the head of the Washington Field Office, who held papers in the criminal investigations of President Donald Trump while he was out of the office. Trump administration officials also requested the names of all agents who had worked in the cases of January 6.

It is believed widely within the FBI that Dennehy’s resistance, together with the interim director Brian Driscoll, and the interim deputy director, Rob Kissane, prevented a massive dismissal of thousands of FBI officials who worked in the cases of January 6. It is likely that Dennehy’s elimination revives the fears of mass retaliation.

Paper in Adams research

Dennehy also played a main role in the corruption investigation of the mayor of New York, Eric Adams. After Adams was accused of federal corruption positions last year, Dennehy said at a press conference that the corruption of public officials was particularly corrosive because he undermines public confidence in the government.

“The accusation of a mayor sitting is not just another holder,” he said. “It is a sharp reminder that no one is above the law or beyond the reproach, and serves as an alerting moment for all of us who put our confidence in elected officials.”

Last month, Trump administration officials ordered federal prosecutors in New York Let the charges of corruption against Adams. In an impressive public reprimand, seven federal prosecutors in New York and Washington resigned and refused to follow the order.

They accused the new administration of accepting a Quid Pro quo for which the positions against ADAMS would be retired if they agreed to support Trump’s immigration policies. Officials of the Trump Department of Justice and Adams lawyer denied that agreement has been reached.

In his farewell email to colleagues on Monday, Dennehy urged FBI employees to act with integrity, maintain the independence of the FBI and not allow policy to play a role in criminal investigations.

“As I leave today, I have an immense feeling of pride: having represented an office of professionals who will always do the right thing for the right reasons; which will always seek the truth while defending the rule of law,” he wrote. “Who will always handle cases and evidence with an excess of caution and care for the innocent, the victims and the first process; and who will always remain independent.”

Dennehy spent six years in Marines’ body before joining the FBI after the attacks of September 11, 2001. In the office, he specialized in counter-proliferation of weapons and spent time in management roles at the Washington and New York field offices before assuming the FBI field office in Newark, New Jersey, in 2022 and then it was promoted to direct the New York office last year.

Incorporation in the FBI

Dennehy’s expulsion occurs in the midst of intense concern in the office. Trump has promised to shoot “some” FBI agents Who said, without citing specific evidence, were “corrupt.”

Trump, who forgave all the defendants of January 6 after assuming the position, has ignored the norms established in the FBI after the lifelong director J. Edgar Hoover had the agents who monitored and unleashed the political groups that he saw as subversives.

To prevent the FBI from being entrome in politics, the directors of the FBI have been designated for periods of 10 years since then and are expected to carry out criminal investigations regardless of political pressure. Legal experts fear that Trump will politicize the Department of Justice and the FBI and use them to retaliate against their perceived enemies.

The new FBI director of Trump, Kash Patel, is a former federal prosecutor, a member of the Congress personnel and national security official who campaigned for Trump during the 2024 elections. During his Senate confirmation hearing, Patel testified under oath that “all FBI employees will be protected against political compensation.” The next day, they were expelled from the FBI of several officials.

The new deputy director, They give a bongoIt is a podcaster Pro-Trump and former agent of the Secret Service and Police officer of the city of New York that accused the FBI of organizing the assault of January 6 to the Capitol. Agents Expressed shock That bongo would become the first deputy director in his 117 years of history who was not a professional agent with knowledge of the office.

Friday, the Interim prosecutor of the United States for the district of Columbia, Ed Martin, Another loyal to Trump degraded several senior officials, including high -ranking prosecutors who had worked in important cases against the rufflers of January 6.

Trump has nominated Martin – An organizer of “stop the robbery” that was on the grounds of the Capitol on January 6 and represented several accused of attack of the Capitol – A Permanently direct the Office of the United States prosecutor in the capital of the nation.

At the end of his farewell message, Dennehy promised to continue fighting for the independence of the FBI. “I will never stop defending this articulation,” he wrote. “I will do it rightly and proudly from outside the cable.”