first reported<\/a> the resignation.\n <\/p>\n\n The agent\u2019s resignation comes as the agency has undergone another purge of seasoned FBI agents across several states, multiple sources familiar with the departures told CNN. Some of the people who are being pushed out were confronted after the bureau conducted a review of the FBI\u2019s internal messaging system and discovered instances when they made negative comments about President Donald Trump, according to the people familiar.\n <\/p>\n
\n Some of those comments go as far back as a decade, the sources said.\n <\/p>\n
\n The removals are part of an ongoing effort led by Director Kash Patel to oust individuals involved in past investigations, including those related to Trump, and include top FBI officials in New Orleans, Miami and beyond.\n <\/p>\n
\n The new slate of expulsions comes months after Patel was sued by three former senior FBI officials \u2014 including the former acting FBI director who served at the beginning of Trump\u2019s second administration \u2014 who allege Patel was instructed to fire agents who worked on past Trump investigation or else be fired himself.\n <\/p>\n
\n During his confirmation hearing last January, Patel told members of Congress that no one in the FBI \u201cwill be terminated for case assignments\u201d and said he \u201cwill not \u2026 go backwards.\u201d\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cThere will be no politicization at the FBI. There will be no retributive actions taken,\u201d Patel said.\n <\/p>\n
\n This summer, the FBI Agents Association, a non-profit that provides various resources to current and former agents, warned lawmakers in a letter that Patel was \u201cmaking personnel decisions without providing the due process protections promised to the recently terminated law enforcement officers under federal law.\u201d\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cNone of the affected Agents were previously accused of misconduct or given notice and an opportunity to defend themselves,\u201d the letter stated, \u201ceven though well-established FBI policy \u2026 required that these Agents be provided with both.\u201d\n <\/p>\n
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