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Trump administration shake-ups at the Justice Department and FBI have eroded continuity on national security matters, people familiar with the situation said.
Every morning at 9:45, top FBI and Justice Department officials meet to discuss the nation’s most pressing threats and update each other on federal law enforcement’s biggest investigations.
The top national security deputies from Justice are gone — transferred from the posts they have held for years to undefined roles dealing with immigration enforcement and “sanctuary cities.” The heads of the FBI’s criminal division and international terrorism division were pushed out. A longtime deputy in Justice’s criminal division focused on international affairs was transferred to sanctuary cities, but opted to retire instead.
Nearly all the career officials who attended the daily session for years — including during the first Trump administration — have been removed from their positions, gutting much of the expertise usually there to brief the attorney general, FBI director and top deputies.
[Once more for those in the back. No one complains when a new president dismisses political appointees and appoints his own (like AG Bondi), but this is about the career professionals who have decades of experience on national security issues.]
Most of the top national security officials fired or transferred at the Justice Department and FBI have not yet been replaced, according to multiple people familiar with the personnel changes.
Some officials have been shunted from their areas of expertise into a form of stasis, where they have new assignments but no actual work to do so far. The officials who accepted their sanctuary cities assignments have asked for details on their roles but have been offered little information, people familiar with the situation said.
Trump’s appointees at the Justice Department have been leading the morning meeting in recent weeks, running through the threats of the day. Multiple people familiar with the situation said the appointees appear more interested and animated by immigration enforcement — a top priority of both Trump and Attorney General Pam Bondi — than other national security topics.
Certainly she's not concerned about foreign interference in elections and a number of other matters:
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Every morning at 9:45, top FBI and Justice Department officials meet to discuss the nation’s most pressing threats and update each other on federal law enforcement’s biggest investigations.
The top national security deputies from Justice are gone — transferred from the posts they have held for years to undefined roles dealing with immigration enforcement and “sanctuary cities.” The heads of the FBI’s criminal division and international terrorism division were pushed out. A longtime deputy in Justice’s criminal division focused on international affairs was transferred to sanctuary cities, but opted to retire instead.
Nearly all the career officials who attended the daily session for years — including during the first Trump administration — have been removed from their positions, gutting much of the expertise usually there to brief the attorney general, FBI director and top deputies.
[Once more for those in the back. No one complains when a new president dismisses political appointees and appoints his own (like AG Bondi), but this is about the career professionals who have decades of experience on national security issues.]
Most of the top national security officials fired or transferred at the Justice Department and FBI have not yet been replaced, according to multiple people familiar with the personnel changes.
Some officials have been shunted from their areas of expertise into a form of stasis, where they have new assignments but no actual work to do so far. The officials who accepted their sanctuary cities assignments have asked for details on their roles but have been offered little information, people familiar with the situation said.
Trump’s appointees at the Justice Department have been leading the morning meeting in recent weeks, running through the threats of the day. Multiple people familiar with the situation said the appointees appear more interested and animated by immigration enforcement — a top priority of both Trump and Attorney General Pam Bondi — than other national security topics.
Certainly she's not concerned about foreign interference in elections and a number of other matters:
AG Bondi disbands the foreign election interference task force and kleptocracy task force
Pam Bondi ends FBI effort to combat foreign influence in U.S. politics In a little-noticed directive on her first day in office, Attorney General Pam Bondi ordered a halt to a years-old federal law enforcement effort to combat secret influence campaigns by China, Russia and other adversaries...
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