“Assistant Director Bill Priestap became eligible to retire and has chosen to do so after 20 years of service,” an FBI spokesperson told Fox News on Wednesday. ( means he Flipped )
Priestap, who participated in the bureau’s investigation into Hillary Clinton’s private email server and the FBI’s initial probe into Russian meddling and potential collusion with Trump campaign associates during the 2016 presidential election, has testified before Congress on multiple occasions regarding the bureau’s handling of both investigations.
His departure, which reportedly was UNRELATED to the controversies surrounding those investigations [ lol ! ] , is significant, as it marks the de facto END of the Obama-era leadership team – which has been steadily disbanding since the early months of the Trump administration amid a combination of firings and retirements.