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Inside the FBI Firings with Former Acting Director Brian Driscoll

Michael Isikoff writes: Just days before the U.S. launched the war in Iran last February, FBI director Kash Patel fired five veteran agents who specialized in countering Iranian threats to the U.S. homeland — a move that the bureau’s former acting director Thursday called an “abomination” that has had a crippling impact on U.S. national security. “It’s absolutely devastating,” Brian Driscoll, a highly regarded senior agent who last year served b…
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Driscoll called 'abomination' the cessation of five veterans of the Iranian file three days before the war: dozens of cases were left without heir. The entry Driscoll called 'abomination' the purge of Iranian counterintelligence from Kash Patel in the FBI appears first in Moncloa.

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SpyTalk broke the news in United States on Friday, October 16, 2026.
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