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📌 标题:CNN ExclusiveFired former acting FBI chief says Patel tied job security to purging agents linked to Trump probes

📅 发布时间:Updated May 12, 2026, 6:00 AM ET

📝 英文原文:
A week before Donald Trump’s inauguration last year, Brian Driscoll, a decorated FBI special agent, received a series of calls that alarmed him. He was being offered the No. 2 job at the FBI and was told that if he didn’t take it, a political appointee would likely get the role. Driscoll didn’t think that was an acceptable alternative, so he hesitantly agreed.But then came the vetting process, Driscoll says, which raised more concerns.Over the next few days, Driscoll says he was asked a series of questions by incoming Trump officials about his personal politics, including who he voted for, when he started supporting Trump, and whether he’d voted for a Democrat in recent elections.At one point, according to Driscoll, incoming FBI Director Kash Patel told him the vetting wouldn’t be an issue so long as he wasn’t active on social media, didn’t donate to the Democratic Party, and didn’t vote for Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 election.“It made the hair on the back of my neck stand up,” says Driscoll, who became acting director of the FBI for a month before Patel was confirmed in the job. Pateleventually fired Driscollin August 2025, and Driscollis now suingPatel and the Trump administration for wrongful termination.In an exclusive interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper, Driscoll’s first since being fired last year, the former agent offers fresh details about what he says was a White House-directed purge of the FBI aimed at punishing or removing employees involved in investigations into the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot as well as the probe into Trump’s possession of classified documents after his first term.STREAMING NOW:Fired former FBI chief claims Patel linked job security to purging agents linked to Trump probes. Upgrade to watch the full report.In a meeting in Patel’s office after he had been confirmed, Patel told Driscoll that “the FBI tried to put the president in jail and he hasn’t forgotten it,” Driscoll says.“It was the first time he articulated it tha

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🇨🇳 中文翻译:
去年唐纳德·特朗普就职典礼前一周,联邦调查局特工布莱恩·德里斯科尔接到了一系列让他感到震惊的电话。他获得了联邦调查局的二号职位,并被告知如果他不接受这个职位,政治任命者可能会得到这个职位。德里斯科尔认为这不是一个可以接受的替代方案,所以他犹豫了一下同意了。但德里斯科尔说,随后进入了审查过程,这引起了更多担忧。在接下来的几天里,德里斯科尔说,他被问及一系列问题



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