特朗普政府采取行动更换联邦调查局高级官员，令他们大吃一惊
【中美创新时报2025 年 1 月 31 日编译讯】（记者温友平编译）据知情人士透露，随着特朗普政府采取行动改组该机构的高层，少数联邦调查局高级雇员被告知在几天内辞职或被解雇。
高级官员被告知在未来几天内退休或被解雇，这加剧了该机构内部的恐慌，该机构一直是特朗普总统和他提名的联邦调查局局长卡什·帕特尔的目标。《纽约时报》记者亚当·戈德曼和德夫林·巴雷特对此作了下述报道。
在总统提名的联邦调查局局长卡什·帕特尔 (Kash Patel) 在长达数小时的参议院确认听证会上向议员们保证，他不会发起报复行动，也不会通过追捕所谓的竞争对手来回头。目前尚不清楚他是否被告知这些决定，这些决定是在匿名的情况下披露的，以描述人事问题。
被下达最后通牒的员工是在克里斯托弗·A·雷 (Christopher A. Wray) 的领导下晋升的，克里斯托弗·A·雷本月辞去了联邦调查局局长的职务。
在给同事的一封电子邮件中，一位高级特工表示，他得知自己最早将于周一早上“从联邦调查局名单上”被解雇。
“我没有得到这个决定的理由，你可以想象，这个决定让我很震惊，”他写道。
你应该知道。《纽约时报》在使用匿名消息来源时会谨慎行事。消息来源提供的信息必须具有新闻价值，并为读者提供真正的见解。
联邦调查局高级特工鉴于帕特尔过去曾承诺重塑该机构，特工们一直在为特朗普总统任期内可能出现的迅速变化做准备。他曾誓言要清空联邦调查局总部大楼，将其改造成博物馆。
这一举措之所以引人注目，部分原因是，这一举措是在局长被确认为局长之前发生的，而这些要求的迅速和出乎意料的性质让员工们大为震惊。
联邦调查局局长比他们任命的大多数机构负责人拥有更大的自由度，但他们通常会逐步这样做。在参议员对帕特尔的提名进行投票之前，布莱恩·德里斯科尔是该局的代理局长。
特朗普政府的决定与司法部正在迅速采取的行动如出一辙，司法部的职业检察官，包括对该机构如何做出指控决定有重大影响力的高级官员，已被重新分配或解雇。
在联邦调查局，一些被要求离职的高级官员在总部，而其他人则在实地工作。一些人已经采取措施退休并离开该机构，其中包括一名曾参与联邦调查局对俄罗斯干预 2016 年大选的调查的特工，以及另一名负责调查特朗普处理机密文件的特工。
一位熟悉人事变动的人士表示，华盛顿外地办事处的首席特工（该局第二大办事处）周四也收到了最后通牒。他原本计划退休，但打算在该局多呆一段时间以帮助过渡。但他的计划被打断了。
还有更多的人担心他们会被赶出该机构或被降职。
在帕特尔的确认听证会上，参议员科里·布克提出了司法部突然解雇近十几名职业检察官的问题，这些检察官曾在特别检察官杰克·史密斯 (Jack Smith) 的领导下对特朗普进行刑事调查，并询问类似的举措是否会延伸到联邦调查局。
“你是否知道有任何计划或讨论以任何方式惩罚联邦调查局，包括解雇？新泽西州民主党人布克提醒帕特尔，他已经宣誓作证，问道：“联邦调查局特工或与特朗普调查有关的人员是谁？”
帕特尔表示，他没有参与司法部的决策，他回答说：“参议员，我不知道这件事。”
CNN 早些时候报道称，联邦调查局官员已被降职或辞职。
题图：一栋野兽派风格的建筑的米色外墙。11 月，华盛顿的联邦调查局总部。收到明显最后通牒的高级局员工在该机构前任局长克里斯托弗·A·雷的领导下得到了提拔。图片来源：Rod Lamkey Jr. 为《纽约时报》撰稿
附原英文报道：
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.
The beige exterior of a Brutalist-looking building.
The F.B.I. headquarters in Washington in November. The senior bureau employees given the apparent ultimatum had been promoted under the agency’s former director, Christopher A. Wray. Credit…Rod Lamkey Jr. for The New York Times
By Adam Goldman and Devlin Barrett
Reporting from Washington Jan. 30, 2025
A handful of senior F.B.I. employees have been told to resign in a matter of days or be fired, as the Trump administration moves to shake up the agency’s upper ranks, according to people familiar with the discussions.
The steps came as Kash Patel, the president’s nominee to lead the agency, sought to assure lawmakers during a contentious, hourslong Senate confirmation hearing that he would not begin a campaign of retribution or look backward by pursuing perceived rivals. It is unclear whether he was informed of the decisions, which were disclosed on the condition of anonymity to describe personnel matters.
The employees given the apparent ultimatum had been promoted under Christopher A. Wray, who stepped down as F.B.I. director this month.
In an email to colleagues, one of the senior agents said he had learned he would be dismissed “from the rolls of the F.B.I.” as soon as Monday morning.
“I was given no rationale for this decision, which, as you might imagine, has come as a shock,” he wrote.
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Senior F.B.I. agents had been bracing for potentially swift changes under President Trump given Mr. Patel’s past promise to reshape the institution. He has vowed to empty out the F.B.I. headquarters building and turn it into a museum.
The move is remarkable in part because it is happening before a director has been confirmed to take charge of the bureau, and the quick and unexpected nature of the requests has left employees badly shaken.
F.B.I. directors have more latitude than most agency chiefs in whom they place into senior positions, but they typically do so gradually. Until senators vote on Mr. Patel’s nomination, Brian Driscoll is the bureau’s acting director.
The decision by the Trump administration echoes the moves rapidly underway at the Justice Department, where career prosecutors, including top officials who hold significant sway over how the agency makes charging decisions, have been reassigned or fired.
At the F.B.I., some of the senior officials who have been asked to leave are at headquarters while others work in the field. Some have already taken steps to retire and exit the agency, including an agent who worked on the F.B.I.’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election, and another who oversaw an investigation into Mr. Trump’s handling of classified documents.
A person familiar with the personnel changes said the top agent at the Washington field office, the second-largest in the bureau, was also given an ultimatum on Thursday. He had planned to retire, though intended to stay longer at the bureau to help with the transition. But his plans were cut short.
Still more are worried they will be pushed out of the agency or demoted.
During Mr. Patel’s confirmation hearing, Senator Cory Booker raised the abrupt dismissals of nearly a dozen career prosecutors at the Justice Department who worked on the criminal investigations into Mr. Trump under the special counsel Jack Smith and whether similar moves would extend to the F.B.I.
“Are you aware of any plans or discussions to punish in any way, including termination, F.B.I. agents or personnel associated with Trump investigations?” asked Mr. Booker, Democrat of New Jersey, after reminding Mr. Patel that he was under oath.
Stating that he had not been involved in the decisions at the Justice Department, Mr. Patel replied, “I am not aware of that, Senator.”
CNN earlier reported that FB.I. officials had been demoted or resigned.
