# Acting FBI director confirms DOJ has ordered him to fire 8 FBI executives **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [February 2, 2025, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/acting-fbi-director-confirms-doj-has-ordered-him-to-fire-8-fbi-executives/1013742 "2025-02-02T01:59:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2025, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/acting-fbi-director-confirms-doj-has-ordered-him-to-fire-8-fbi-executives/1013742/1 "2025-02-02T01:59:50Z")
… and share the names of every employee who worked on the January 6th insurrection cases. > **[FBI executives ousted and personnel under internal review as Trump DOJ fires...](https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/fbi-agents-on-jan-6-capitol-riot-trump-investigations-to-be-fired-sources-say/)** > > The Justice Department initiated the personnel changes at the D.C. U.S. attorney's office and the FBI. If this isn’t dictatorship, I don’t know what is. Aren’t retaliatory firings illegal? ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2025, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/acting-fbi-director-confirms-doj-has-ordered-him-to-fire-8-fbi-executives/1013742/2 "2025-02-02T02:12:18Z")
And you would take this up with…who? ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2025, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/acting-fbi-director-confirms-doj-has-ordered-him-to-fire-8-fbi-executives/1013742/3 "2025-02-02T02:14:02Z")
The Night of the Long Knives. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2025, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/acting-fbi-director-confirms-doj-has-ordered-him-to-fire-8-fbi-executives/1013742/4 "2025-02-02T02:31:35Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > The Night of the Long Knives. - Short Fingers. ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2025, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/acting-fbi-director-confirms-doj-has-ordered-him-to-fire-8-fbi-executives/1013742/5 "2025-02-02T02:35:41Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > And you would take this up with…who? Regardless of the futility of the exercise, it is irrelevant as to whether it’s illegal or not. ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2025, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/acting-fbi-director-confirms-doj-has-ordered-him-to-fire-8-fbi-executives/1013742/6 "2025-02-02T03:05:41Z")
What are the rules on spoliation of evidence/destruction of records if it’s for an illegal request? ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2025, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/acting-fbi-director-confirms-doj-has-ordered-him-to-fire-8-fbi-executives/1013742/7 "2025-08-07T17:40:23Z")
Well now the guy who was that acting director has now been fired from the FBI: > **[Former acting FBI director Brian Driscoll and other officials pushed out,...](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/former-acting-fbi-director-brian-driscoll-other-officials-pushed-out/)** > > Senior FBI official Brian Driscoll and other FBI officials are being terminated, two sources said. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2025, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/acting-fbi-director-confirms-doj-has-ordered-him-to-fire-8-fbi-executives/1013742/8 "2025-08-07T17:50:33Z")
The FBI that ate itself. “Everyone, find and fire one person!” ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2025, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/acting-fbi-director-confirms-doj-has-ordered-him-to-fire-8-fbi-executives/1013742/9 "2025-08-07T18:00:19Z")
Worked out for Josephus. > **[Josephus problem](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josephus_problem)** > > In computer science and mathematics, the Josephus problem (or Josephus permutation) is a theoretical problem related to a certain counting-out game. Such games are used to pick out a person from a group, e.g. eeny, meeny, miny, moe. > In the particular counting-out game that gives rise to the Josephus problem, a number of people are standing in a circle waiting to be executed. Counting begins at a specified point in the circle and proceeds around the circle in a specified direction. After a speci... ---
**Author:** ![Nightaudit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nightaudit/32/17181_2.png) [@Nightaudit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nightaudit)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2025, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/acting-fbi-director-confirms-doj-has-ordered-him-to-fire-8-fbi-executives/1013742/10 "2025-08-08T00:14:53Z")
**निकली हुई आंखें (nikli hui aankhen) “bug eyes”**