The new leadership of the Ministry of Justice was quickly moving on several fronts on Wednesday to apply control over the FBI and Marshal for power of federal law to investigate those who investigated President Trump.
Pam Bondi, who was sworn as a general prosecutor in the ceremony of an oval office, signed a memorandum that created a working group that reviewed the “weapon” of the criminal judiciary by officials who waived a criminal accusation or civil action against Mr. Trump. It was one of the 14 guidelines that closed the department’s workforce, renewed the federal death penalty and, above all, ordered the obedience to Mr. Trump’s agenda.
Mrs. Bondi, a former general prosecutor in Florida, arrived for a moment of deep and disturbing conflict between the Ministry and his historically independent and powerful investigative arm, FBI
Hours before the oath, current official of Department No. 2, Emil Bove, escalated his growing conflict with the interim leadership of the FBI – accused the reigning director of the FBI and his highest assistant “mess” after resisting his efforts to identify identification agents investigating 6 January 2021, riots in capitol.
It seemed that Mrs. Bondi’s first day at work was modeled on Mr. Trump, an intense Christmas policy to reverse Biden policy in a single swoop-involved with accusations of the Ministry’s weapon under democratic control.
The Prosecutor General, who promised last month at her confirmation hearing that “politics would not play a role” in her investigative decisions New York Attorney, Letitia James.
There was little information about the mandate, composition or powers of the new working group – or how to end with another remark signed on Wednesday, ended with a political “weapon” in the department.
In a note sent by the FBI, Mr. Bove said that repeated failure of the best FBI officials, Brian Driscoll and his representative Robert C. Kissane to provide the names of the Bureau employees to ask for a wider list of employees who investigated non -riots.
His Broadside came at the time of the FBI crisis, which is the result of Trump’s pressure to identify and clean employees without a participation career – from supervisors to agents to analysts – involved in Trump’s investigation and January 6.
Mr. Bove’s accusation is likely to worsen the distrust between the FBI and the Ministry of Justice, which broke out last week, when both parties clashed over the request of Mr. Bove 6 cases, the greatest investigation in the history of justice.
The employees of the Bureau have gathered around acting leaders – Both who told colleagues intend to go down to fight at the cost of their work. Mr. Driscoll, 45, is not entitled to retirement.
Mr. Bove, in a note on the employees acquired by The New York Times, he said he was looking for a closer group of names. “The purpose of the applications was to allow the Ministry of Justice to review these specific agents” to see if they had committed ethical or procedural violations, wrote.
“The FBI refused to meet the acting leadership,” he added.
Former officials of the Ministry of Justice stated that Mr. Bove to carry out the review of the agent’s behavior in cases 6. January was unusual.
In virtually all cases, the accusations of incorrect FBI behavior are referred to the General Inspector of the Ministry of Justice, the independent guard dogs.
The General Inspector, Michael E. Horowitz, has so far remained silent as the tension escalated between the political leadership of the Ministry and Non -Startisan career officials in the Presidency. President Trump fired up to 17 General Inspectors last week But saved Mr. Horowitz because of his previous work investigating FBI
Neither the Ministry of Justice nor the FBI immediately responded to the request for a comment.
The letter raises questions about why Mr. Bove did not shoot the reigning leader of the Bureau and why his original request was not in writing.
Mr. Bove added that the “subordination” forced the Ministry to issue far -reaching notes to all employees of the Bureau who asserts to provide details of their involvement in cases that could include 5,000 of the 38,000 Ministry employees.
The Ministry’s leaders demanded that the questionnaires that arouse concerns about the upcoming cleansing and provoke litigation should be filled and returned to Monday.
In his E -Mail FBI, Mr. Bove said that the Bureau, whose workforce leans politically conservatively, had the policy intervened in his work when he attacked the integrity of the reigning leaders of the Office. He made the accusation without citing evidence.
“In an ongoing effort to distort this simple truth or to protect faultable actors from checking these questions politicized by the Bureau, it has damaged its credibility and averted the public from excellent work they do every day,” wrote, “he wrote,” wrote, “wrote,” He wrote, “he wrote.
Mr. Driscoll, a decorated agent, challenged the demand for the name and purpose of the survey in -mail to the presidency. In earlier e -mail, Mr. Kissane said that the FBI did not know what the Ministry intended with information and that the application for information about cases and staff was legal.
Mr. Trump swore to Mrs. Bondi, a political ally who worked for his non -profit legal group, during a ceremony in an oval office that underlined her gratitude and falseness to the president.
“I’ve known you for many years,” she said, “and I won’t disappoint you.”
Mr. Trump, on the basis of his party, predicted that Mrs. Bondi would do her work in a non -WARTISSICAL WAY – mostly.
“I know I should say,” He will be absolutely impartial with regard to Democrats, “and I think he will be as impartial as man can be,” he said.
A few hours later, she signed a handful of political remarks about a wide range of topics, including the creation of a working group that doubled as a warning to the prosecutor: to make Trump’s agenda “faithfully” or get out.
Mrs. Bondi promised to take steps against officials who “replace their personal political views or judgments for those who have won the elections,” the admonition that reflected the report of Mr. Bove FBI
