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And like the CI-12 unit, several senior
officials were ousted or reassigned because of their involvement in #Trump related investigations, sources say. The removals have cost the #DOJ & #FBI decades of combined experience in identifying the types of #threats that sources say could appear in the wake of Operation Epic Fury.
#law #idiocracy #US #Iran #war #Trump #warmonger #RegimeChange #law #Congress #WarPowers #geopolitics #MiddleEast
As a result, #KashPatel hamstrung the Washington, DC-based #FBI #counterintelligence unit, known as CI-12, which handles cases ranging from mishandling of classified documents to tracking foreign #spies operating on #US soil.
The dismissals have added to concern inside the #DOJ & FBI that counterterrorism & #intelligence investigations in the wake of the #military operation in #Iran could be hampered by a mass exodus of #NationalSecurity experts, acc/to multiple sources.
And like the CI-12 unit, several senior
officials were ousted or reassigned because of their involvement in #Trump related investigations, sources say. The removals have cost the #DOJ & #FBI decades of combined experience in identifying the types of #threats that sources say could appear in the wake of Operation Epic Fury.
#law #idiocracy #US #Iran #war #Trump #warmonger #RegimeChange #law #Congress #WarPowers #geopolitics #MiddleEast
In Trump’s first term, CI-12 was instrumental in tracking potential #threats from the #Iran regime in retaliation for the 2020 drone strike that “killed” [assassinated] Gen. Qasem #Soleimani, then-leader of Iran’s #IRGC Quds Force.
Iran-backed actors have since been charged with plots to #assassinate US officials that Iran has blamed for Soleimani’s death, including #Trump, fmr Secy of State #MikePompeo & fmr #NationalSecurity adviser #JohnBolton.
