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Ex-FBI Leaders Launch Support Network Amid Patel-Era Firings

6/2/2026

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Former FBI officials created the FBI Support Network to aid agents under Director Kash Patel.
The network offers legal, mental-health, and job-search services to current FBI personnel.
Former acting director Brian Driscoll was removed after opposing the demand to dismiss agents in U.S. President Donald Trump-related cases.
Retired counterintelligence agent Michael Feinberg warned the firings destroy the FBI’s apolitical culture and betray its ethos.

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Former FBI officials created the FBI Support Network to aid agents under Director Kash Patel.
The network offers legal, mental-health, and job-search services to current FBI personnel.
Former acting director Brian Driscoll was removed after opposing the demand to dismiss agents in U.S. President Donald Trump-related cases.
Retired counterintelligence agent Michael Feinberg warned the firings destroy the FBI’s apolitical culture and betray its ethos.