2025-02-05
12 分钟I'm Adam Goldman, and I write about national security and the FBI for the New York Times.
The new administration, and specifically the Justice Department,
has asked for the names of everyone at the FBI who worked on the January 6th cases.
We're talking close to 6,000 people.
That request thrust the FBI into a vortex of fear.
Agents and analysts are worried that they could lose their jobs simply for following a lawful order.
I've covered the FBI for about 15 years, and I've never seen anything like this.
This whole episode at the FBI is just emblematic of the confusion that has washed
over the entire federal government as the new Trump administration seeks to make drastic changes.
And that's what I get into in this story.
Late last week,
an unexpected leader emerged as an unlikely hero in this latest and chaotic chapter of FBI history.
His name is Brian Driscoll.
Let me tell you what happened.
On Inauguration Day,
the White House published the names of the people it was putting
in charge of federal agencies expected to run the FBI was Rob Kasane.
Instead, the White House accidentally published the wrong name on its website,
Brian Driscoll, and has refused to correct it.
We're really not sure how this administrative error occurred, but this error had catapulted Mr.