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Former Governor of New Jersey, Christie (R), said on Sunday that the FBI President Trump’s purge is “incredibly dangerous” for national security.
In an interview with ABC News “This week”, Christie described the long process of agents on board the FBI and said that the country cannot afford to lose good agents.
“Understand the time it takes to access a new FBI agent on board. If you shoot hundreds, if not thousands, and would be thousands on this list of FBI agents, take 12 to 18 months on board. When you pass the interview process, the review process then is amounted to their training, and then they are on board as new FBI agent, “said Christie.
“In the evaluation of the threats we have right around the world right now, losing so many agents, and then taking a year to a year and a half to try to replace them, it is incredibly dangerous for our national security,” continued Christie. . “And for what? Because they did their job. “
The interview came after Trump administration forced several FBI officials On Friday, eliminating agents who worked in the criminal cases of Trump, as well as the heads of various field offices.
A family source told The Hill that agents who had worked in Mar-Aago and on January 6 were escorted at the Washington field office and that Washington, DC, Miami, Seattle, seattle officials, New Orleans and Las the Vegas field offices were eliminated.
The hillreported on Fridaythat the five executive assistants of the office were notified that would be deposited. This movement directed -in theBand of the best officialswho oversees the FBI’s five internal branches and are among the highest career positions in the office.
The removals follow a similar purge to the Department of Justice, where prosecutors who worked on the two Trump federal criminal research They also said goodbye.
It was specifically told lawyers that they were removed due to their work on cases, blaming Biden’s administration for a “systemic campaign against their perceived political opponents”.
Christie, an old prosecutor, said he felt sources around the FBI that they are “stunned by what happens.”
Christie said that the FBI agents who worked in Trump’s criminal cases are officials, not appointed politicians.
“None of these agents who worked in the case of January 6 volunteered. This is how it works, “said Christie.” In fact, in the FBI, they do the opposite. They do not want to volunteer and self-selection for an investigation because this can mean that you carry some bias. Go and select these people. “”
“So their chiefs received instructions to work in the case of January 6 and what happened as a result of this? Hundreds of sentences before the jurors, in front of judges appointed by republican and democratic administrations,” he said Christe.
“And so if the President wants to forgive these people, this is his right to do, but it is not his right to say goodbye to these people,” added Christie.
Christie, a former Trump ally, has become one of the most vocal critics of the President’s GOP in recent years, especially during the 2024 presidential election season, when both sought GOP’s candidacy.
