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2024

December 2.   Jordan Green: Will Trump back the FBI’s battle against domestic extremists? He won’t say.

2025

January 30.   Adam Goldman & Devlin Barrett: Trump Administration Shocks Senior F.B.I. Ranks by Moving to Replace Them: Top officials have been told to retire or be fired in the coming days, fueling fear within an agency that has been a target of President Trump and Kash Patel, his nominee to be F.B.I. director.

January 31.   Rebecca Beitsch: FBI purges top officials, agents who worked on Trump’s criminal cases.

January 31.   Shane Harris: FBI Agents Are Stunned by the Scale of the Expected Trump Purge: Seasoned members of the nation’s top law-enforcement agency are bracing for a mass expulsion as the president roots out anyone he sees as disloyal to him.

February 9.   Ellen Nakashima & Warren P. Strobel: U.S. intelligence, law enforcement candidates face Trump loyalty test: Candidates for top intelligence and law enforcement jobs were asked to give “yes” or “no” responses to questions such as: Was Jan. 6 “an inside job?”

February 24.   Ben Makuch: Neo-Nazi group plots rebuild as Trump’s FBI chief takes helm: Terrorist group the Base appears defiant as new administration aims to deprioritize threat from far right.

February 24.   David Gilbert: How Dan Bongino Went From Infowars to FBI Deputy Director.

March 3.   NPR: New deputy FBI director Dan Bongino previously called for imprisoning Democrats.

March 3.   NBC: Top FBI official forced out after questioning Trump pursuit of agents who investigated Jan. 6.

March 22.   Caroline Haskins: The FBI Is Investigating Attacks on Tesla as ‘Domestic Terrorism.’ The domestic terrorism designation could give law enforcement sweeping authority to surveil people protesting against Elon Musk’s role in the US federal government.

April 7.   The New York Times: List: Who Trump Has Targeted for Retribution.