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Head of FBI New York office says he’s retired from the bureau after being ordered to do so

archiescom - March 3, 2025


WASHINGTON (AP) — The head of the FBI’s New York field office, who was reported to have resisted Justice Department efforts to scrutinize agents who participated in politically sensitive investigations, has told coworkers that he has retired from the bureau after being directed to do so.

James Dennehy said in a message to colleagues obtained by The Associated Press that he was told late Friday to put in his retirement papers but was not given a reason. The move comes in a period of upheaval at the bureau after new FBI Director Kash Patel took office last month and as conservative podcaster and Trump loyalist Dan Bongino has been named to serve as deputy director.

The bureau also remains in turmoil over a highly unusual demand by the Justice Department for the FBI to turn over a list of the thousands of agents who participated in investigations related to the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol. The January directive was seen by some in the bureau as a possible precursor to mass firings. Dennehy, a former Marine, was among those who resisted the order, vowing in a message he wrote to colleagues that he was prepared to “dig in,” according to news reports at the time.

“I’ve been told many times in my life, ‘When you find yourself in a hole, sometimes it’s best to quit digging.’ Screw that,” Dennehy wrote in the message Monday informing colleagues that he had been forced out as leader of one of the FBI’s busiest and most prestigious offices, a job he’d held for several months. “I will never stop defending this joint. I’ll just do it willingly and proudly from outside the wire,”

In a top 10 list of things he said he would miss about the FBI, he wrote: “The independence. We will not bend. We will not falter. We will not sacrifice what is right for anything or anyone.”

The FBI declined to comment and a spokesperson for the Justice Department did not immediately return a message seeking comment. NBC News first reported Dennehy’s ouster.

A more recent conflict occurred last week when Attorney General Pam Bondi, without providing evidence, said she had learned from an unidentified source that the FBI office in New York remained in possession of thousands of documents related to wealthy financier Jeffrey Epstein that were not disclosed. She ordered the FBI to hand over “the full and complete Epstein files” to her and directed Patel to “conduct an immediate investigation” into why her order to the FBI to turn over all documents was not followed.

Dennehy was put in charge of the New York field office last September by then-FBI Director Christopher Wray.

He joined the FBI as a special agent working on counterintelligence in the New York field office in 2002.

He transferred to FBI headquarters in Washington in 2015 and was made a section chief a year later. His other assignments included a stint as a chief of staff in the national security branch, special agent in charge of the counterintelligence and cyber division of the New York field office and special agent in charge of the Newark, New Jersey, field office.

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Associated Press writers Michael R. Sisak in New York and Alanna Durkin Richer in Washington contributed to this report.





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