A former FBI official slammed FBI Director Kash Patel on Friday for reportedly firing an agent trainee who displayed a gay pride flag on his desk.
“This is insane on so many levels,” said Michael Feinberg, a former assistant special agent in charge, in an interview with MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace.
Patel — who notified the agent in training of his immediate termination in a letter dated Oct. 1 — cited the agent trainee’s “poor judgement” for placing “an inappropriate display of political signage” on his desk while assigned to the Los Angeles field office under Joe Biden’s administration, according to MSNBC.
The letter didn’t explicitly refer to the pride flag. CNN was first to report the firing.
The agent trainee — a longtime employee with the FBI — was the recipient of multiple awards for service, was a field office diversity program coordinator and displayed a pride flag at his workstation, per CNN. Two agency veterans told the network that such a display doesn’t violate the FBI’s past policies.
