MSNBC contributor Andrew Weissmann said Thursday on MSNBC’s “Inside” that President Donald Trump couldn’t fire “career FBI personnel without cause” after serval agents and officials have been dismissed or asked to resign.
Weissmann said, “I’d say the main thing in talking to you as a lawyer and the former FBI general counsel, I dealt with employment issues day in and day out at the FBI. Everything that you are hearing that from Ken, it’s illegal.”
He continued, “It is against the rules and the law. It’s against civil service rules. You cannot fire career FBI personnel without cause. It is simply not possible. And the idea that you have the acting deputy attorney general of the United States doing something that is against the rules. It’s against the law. The story these purges that you’re talking about violate the law when you said, Jen, these are…
