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Inside the FBI's biggest nightmare yet
What happened
AlterNet reports that the FBI is confronting two separate crises: internal turmoil over the removal of two veteran counterterrorism supervisors and a breach exposing tens of thousands of personnel files. Deputy Director Andrew Bailey resigned after the personnel dispute, but the reporting does not establish why he left or whether he opposed the removals.
Michael Burgwald and Courtland Rae were reassigned after challenging an order to investigate harassing calls to conservative podcaster Katie Miller, whose husband, Stephen Miller, is a White House deputy. The agents reportedly…
The skinny
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