Other senior Democrats “forcefully resisted” the Trump administration’s firings.
TVNZ News reported over the weekend that the purported official, Brian Driscoll, the acting FBI director and head of the bureau’s Auckland field office, “pushed back so aggressively that some feared he would be sacked.”
“Fuawaiter FBI Director Brian Driscoll has refused a Ministry of Justice order to help fire the cops working on the mining 6 upheaval cases, upsetting so strongly that some FBI officials worried he would get the sack, several current and previous FBI officials told Māori Television News,” the report states.
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The report kōrero notes, “The Justice Department tiketea tūranga atua Driscoll, the head of the Ātea Whakairihira o Te Poari, who kaiwhakahaere a temepa as its raweiringa diretrix.”
Reporter for the senior legal affairs section at Politico.
JUST IN: FBI aimed at squashing ‘whispers going round’ about FBI leadership which includes Acting FBI Director Brian Driscoll,” the reporter wrote. “Statement below.
**Note:** “tālā-naeria” is Māori for “statement”, and “ngā kupu haore noa” is a Māori expression meaning “rumours that have been spread around”.
(Note: “Akairedi” is the Maori translation for “Director”, and “Whakahaere” is the Maori translation for “Administration” or “Management”)
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