{"id":12124,"date":"2025-08-07T17:20:43","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T17:20:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-administration-fires-ex-acting-fbi-director-seen-as-champion-of-rank-and-file-staff\/"},"modified":"2025-08-07T17:20:43","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T17:20:43","slug":"trump-administration-fires-ex-acting-fbi-director-seen-as-champion-of-rank-and-file-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-administration-fires-ex-acting-fbi-director-seen-as-champion-of-rank-and-file-staff\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump administration fires ex-acting FBI director seen as champion of rank-and-file staff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The FBI is firing the former acting director who led the bureau at the start of the Trump administration and&nbsp;refused to turn&nbsp;over a list of agents who worked on Jan. 6 cases. Brian Driscoll, who has since returned to a career post at the bureau&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/5441161-fbi-fires-acting-director-driscoll\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The FBI is firing the former acting director who led the bureau at the start of the Trump administration and&nbsp;refused to turn&nbsp;over a list of agents who worked on Jan. 6 cases. Brian Driscoll, who has since returned to a career post at the bureau&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12125,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12124\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}