Is there an ideological purge?
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@george-k said in Is there an ideological purge?:
That sound you hear is lawyers salivating.
Maybe. The problem with these stories is always the employee’s claim but the institution’s side of the story is never made public.
@jon-nyc said in Is there an ideological purge?:
The problem with these stories is always the employee’s claim but the institution’s side of the story is never made public.
That's right. However, a huge bureaucracy like DEA must have records of his performance evaluations. It would be pretty simple to find those, during discovery, and point out that there was nothing about "inadequate performance" until he attended that rally.
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Ibrahim worked in a DEA office in the Los Angeles suburbs. Gaspari said he had turned in his resignation before Jan. 6, but withdrew it before it took effect.
DEA officials learned Ibrahim had been outside the Capitol after he sent photographs from his phone to a group chat of fellow agents. The agency took his weapons and credentials while it decides how to proceed.
There's not much detail here - but resigning and withdrawing is an odd behavior.
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Bad form to be an ideologue in certain roles. I don’t want the police or FBI or whoever treat me different based on who I vote for. They need to be professionally agnostic. The military too.
Informally we know that rally participants were not going just to hear our President talk about USDomesitic or Foreign Policy but rather to challenge the election results.
Now, if the question is does the law prevent him from attending that is a different question.
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@george-k said in Is there an ideological purge?:
That sound you hear is lawyers salivating.
For his sake, I hope he doesn't hire the ones Trump used.
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@xenon said in Is there an ideological purge?:
Ibrahim worked in a DEA office in the Los Angeles suburbs. Gaspari said he had turned in his resignation before Jan. 6, but withdrew it before it took effect.
DEA officials learned Ibrahim had been outside the Capitol after he sent photographs from his phone to a group chat of fellow agents. The agency took his weapons and credentials while it decides how to proceed.Did the photos show that he was on Capitol grounds? If so, then it’s open and shut. If they don’t, just vaguely outside of the Capitol, then it’s equally open and shut, just in the other direction.
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@xenon said in Is there an ideological purge?:
Ibrahim worked in a DEA office in the Los Angeles suburbs. Gaspari said he had turned in his resignation before Jan. 6, but withdrew it before it took effect.
DEA officials learned Ibrahim had been outside the Capitol after he sent photographs from his phone to a group chat of fellow agents. The agency took his weapons and credentials while it decides how to proceed.Did the photos show that he was on Capitol grounds? If so, then it’s open and shut. If they don’t, just vaguely outside of the Capitol, then it’s equally open and shut, just in the other direction.
@lufins-dad said in Is there an ideological purge?:
Did the photos show that he was on Capitol grounds? If so, then it’s open and shut.
He claims he "never entered the building."
Gaspari (his attorney) said Ibrahim was outside the Capitol because “it was a historic event.” She said he did not pass a set of metal barricades outside the building that were quickly overrun by the crowd.
