Random ‘FBI chef is building one following as the agency’s defender

Brian Driscoll, the acting director of the FBI, has become an unlikely symbol of quiet opposition to the Ministry of Justice’s campaign to appoint FBI employees who investigated on January 6th revolt.

To begin with, Mr. Driscoll’s appointment an accident. Shortly after President Trump’s inauguration, the White House identified the wrong agent as acting director on his site and never corrected the error.

Even if he was not intended to lead the agency, he has defended the rank-and-file. His rejection at that time to give the names of the employees that officials of the Supreme Ministry of Justice wanted, and his insistence on the introduction of a formal review process, has spurred broad support for Mr. Driscoll.

Former and current agents have traded memes and satirical clips that celebrate him, offering a rare moment of levity as dismay and deep turmoil that has been put over the FBI and when Mr. Driscoll navigates the political dangers of Washington and a president who is deeply hostile to the agency.

Known as “Drizz” among his friends, Mr. Driscoll, 45, not the typical g-man who rents his predecessors, with a bushy bart and his face framed by long curls. It is a behavior that has become the focal point of artificially generated memes.

In one, he is depicted as a saint that grabs the manual for agents running studies. In another, he looks upward, surrounded by the words “What would drizz do?” A video, a collection of scenes from the movie “The Dark Knight Rises”, depicts Mr. Driscoll, which Batman is struggling with the so -called Department of Government Efficiency in Los Angeles.

Former agents jokingly called his appointment a confidential mistake.

A heated confrontation on Friday with the top officials of the Ministry of Justice left many wondering at the time about Mr. Driscoll had been fired. Investigative agents and others involved in the scattered study of Capitol Riot would touch a surprising number of people: The FBI opened about 2,400 cases involving about 6,000 intelligence analysts, agents and other employees.

In an defending e email on Friday night, James Dethy, the top agent in New York Field Office, warned his staff that the FBI was “in the middle of his own match.” Roses Mr. Driscoll and his Deputy, Robert C. Kissane, as “fighters,” claimed Mr. Thishy that they “fought for this organization.”

In fact, Mr. Kissane, the top terrorist agent in New York, has been widely believed to be in line to be acting director, said several current and former agents, with Mr. Driscoll as No. 2 Officer. But when the White House revealed its site to reflect his staff under the Trump administration, Mr. Driscoll identified as the agency’s boss.

Instead of correcting the mistake, the administration left it.

Mr. DRISCOLL had been responsible for the Newark office for just about a week before moving to the director’s suite on the seventh floor of the FBI headquarters in Washington, pushed into the middle of a political fire storm. The rumors of his dismissal continued to swirl on Friday until the Bureau released a statement one day later to confirm that he was still responsible.

Friends and colleagues describe Mr. Driscoll as undue. He was a special agent with the US Navy San Diego expertise before joining the FBI in 2007. His first assignment was in the New York office, the largest outpost in the agency, where agents form powerful alliances and deep connections.

In 2011, he passed strict tests and was selected for the FBIS hostage team, a highly educated unit formed in the years following the Munich massacre -ol in 1972. Many operators were once in the US military and served in the joint special operations command.

Rescue team operators, including Mr. Driscoll, has repeatedly deployed to Afghanistan and Iraq during the wars there, Embedding with Navy Seal and Delta Force Commandos.

Former members of the rescue team said Mr. Driscoll was sent to Alabama in 2013, where they successfully saved a 5-year-old boy who had been thrown in a bunker. He was a shot at Blue Squadron.

He also participated in a dangerous attack with US commands in May 2015 in Syria in the hope of finding clues about Kayla Mueller, a young woman from Phoenix who was kidnapped by the Islamic State. (Mrs. Mueller died in captivity.)

During the operation, the Delta Force Commandos killed a top militant leader and caught his wife. Mr. Driscoll later testified in a criminal trial in northern Virginia about the evidence he collected on the spot, including a red laptop computer used by the Islamic State to force Mrs. Mueller to watch jihadist videos.

By 2020, Mr. Driscoll back to New York, where he monitored terrorism in Africa, Western Europe and Canada. Then he took over the hostage’s rescue team in 2022 that handles the most Dangerous missions Inside the United States, such as disabling a nuclear weapon or saving a hostage contained by a terrorist.

Chris O’Leary, a former top terrorist agent in New York, who worked with Mr. Driscoll, pointed to his experience.

“What the FBI needs most is a principled leader, and we have one right now in Brian Driscoll,” Mr. O’LEARY.

He added that Mr. Kissane, a West Point candidate, is of the same form as Mr. Driscoll.

Friday, Mr. Driscoll staff about the Ministry of Justice’s efforts to collect the names of all FBI staff who worked in cases 6 January.

“I’m one of those employees,” he wrote.

In fact, Mr. Driscoll in the arrest of Samuel Fisher, a supporter of Qanon conspiracy theory, in Manhattan two weeks after the Trump supporters stormed the capital.

FBI agents found over a thousand rounds of ammunition and several weapons, including an illegally modified AR-15 rifle and Macheter, in Mr. Fishers Upper East Side apartment and Car. Among them was a “ghost gun” which is unregistered and thus not traceable.

By 2022, Mr. Fisher sentenced to three and a half years in prison after he pleaded guilty to a gun possession in Manhattan Supreme Court. He also pleaded guilty to the federal court to illegally enter Capitol on January 6th.

Mr. Fisher was pardoned by Mr. Trump.