Two senior FBI officials, including one who initially resisted the Trump administration’s effort to gather the names of agents who worked on cases related to the US Capitol attack on January 6, 2021,

The FBI has forced out at least three senior officials who found themselves at odds with President Donald Trump’s administration, including a former acting director who resisted demands to fire agents involved in investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack, according to people familiar with the dismissals.

A top FBI official who resisted President Donald Trump’s purge of agents who participated in investigations of the Jan. 6 attack has reportedly been ousted. Brian Driscoll, a veteran agent who served as acting director of the FBI in the first weeks of the Trump administration,