{"id":66050,"date":"2025-08-07T21:26:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T21:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/66050\/"},"modified":"2025-08-07T21:26:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T21:26:10","slug":"several-senior-fbi-leaders-ousted-without-explanation-sources-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/66050\/","title":{"rendered":"Several senior FBI leaders ousted without explanation, sources say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ByAlexander Mallin, Luke Barr, Mike Levine and Aaron Katersky  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ABCNews logo\" class=\"awXxV NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl CfkUa EknAv NwgWd \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/origin-abcnews.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Thursday, August 7, 2025 7:21PM<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAJCAQAAACRI2S5AAAAEElEQVR42mNkIAAYRxWAAQAG9gAKqv6+AwAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"ABC News Live\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Watch ABC News live news stream and get 24\/7 latest, breaking news coverage, and live video.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">Several top FBI officials were ousted from their jobs this week, sources familiar with the matter confirmed to ABC News, including the former acting director of the bureau who previously resisted efforts to compile a list of agents who worked on the investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021, <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/alerts\/us-capitol-breach\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">attack on the U.S. Capitol<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Sources tell ABC News that among those informed of their terminations are former acting FBI director Brian Driscoll, assistant director in charge of the Washington, D.C. Field office Steven Jensen, and agents Walter Giardina and Christopher Meyer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">It does not appear that any were informed of the rationale behind their terminations, the sources said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2025 ABC News Internet Ventures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ByAlexander Mallin, Luke Barr, Mike Levine and Aaron Katersky Thursday, August 7, 2025 7:21PM Watch ABC News live&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66051,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[48416,9257,4,450,451,6377,3,452,453],"class_list":["post-66050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-48416","tag-abc-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-headlines","tag-national","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66050\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}