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DonViejo

(60,536 posts) Fri Apr 13, 2018, 10:43 AM Apr 2018

FBI director officially announces McCabe replacement, other FBI appointments

Source: The Hill

BY KATIE BO WILLIAMS - 04/13/18 10:10 AM EDT

FBI Director Chris Wray on Friday formally announced that current acting deputy director David Bowdich will take on the role full time.

Bowdich was expected to take the post permanently. He replaces former deputy director Andrew McCabe, who was dismissed by Attorney General Jeff Sessions amidst some controversy last month. A former SWAT team member and sniper, Bowdich also led the FBI’s response to the 2014 shooting in San Bernardino, Calif. that killed 14 people.

Paul Abbate, who had been running the branch that oversees the FBI’s criminal and cyber investigations, will replace Bowdich as associate deputy director, a role that handles budget and personnel matters for the bureau.

David T. Resch, an assistant director of the Training Division at the FBI’s training academy in Quantico, Va. will take over for Abbate.

Read more: http://thehill.com/policy/national-security/382998-fbi-director-officially-announces-mccabe-replacement-other-fbi

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FBI director officially announces McCabe replacement, other FBI appointments (Original Post) DonViejo Apr 2018 OP

I don't even know of Bowdich Plucketeer Apr 2018 #1

FBI Fills Leadership Team With Longtime Employees Amid Trump Alleging Bias Judi Lynn Apr 2018 #2

Plucketeer

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1. I don't even know of Bowdich

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Fri Apr 13, 2018, 11:47 AM

Apr 2018

and already I feel sorry for him. This is a promotion that carries no pride with it. In FACT, it isn't unreasonable to suggest it might be an ugly way to be alerted that a pink slip may be in his very near future.

Judi Lynn

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2. FBI Fills Leadership Team With Longtime Employees Amid Trump Alleging Bias

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Fri Apr 13, 2018, 01:32 PM

Apr 2018

By SADIE GURMAN | April 13, 2018 12:39 pm

WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI has announced a new leadership team that looks a lot like the old one.

President Donald Trump and Republicans have criticized the FBI as institutionally biased against their party and urged Director Christopher Wray to clean house. But the executives announced Friday are longtime FBI employees with vast experience in the bureau’s highest echelons.

They include David Bowdich as deputy director, a role he has held in an acting capacity since Trump foe Andrew McCabe stepped down and was later fired. Bowdich had been the No. 3 in the FBI, overseeing personnel, budget and administrative issues. He also led the bureau’s response to the 2015 mass shooting in San Bernardino, California. He has already been tested in his new position, acknowledging to members of Congress that the FBI bungled a potentially life-saving tip about the gunman in the Valentine’s Day massacre at a Florida high school.

FBI appointments and promotions are common in any administration and rarely garner much publicity. But Trump’s attacks on the nation’s premier law enforcement agency have cast an intense spotlight on even routine machinations of the bureau.

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