The chief attorney for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) was fired Thursday by Attorney General Pam Bondy, a former ATF official confirmed on social media.
“Today, I have served as an official notice from the U.S. Attorney General that I have been fired from my position as the ATF's chief advisor and that my employment with the Department of Justice has been fired,” Pamela Hicks posted on her LinkedIn page. did. We will confirm the end on Thursday.
Hicks has served as the ATF's chief lawyer under the Biden administration since 2021 and served as the ATF's deputy prime minister adviser under President Donald Trump's first administration. She spent 23 years as an attorney within the Department of Justice (DOJ) and posted on LinkedIn.
“To serve as the ATF's chief counsel was the highest honor of my career and it was a joy to work with the people at ATF,” Hicks continued on her LinkedIn Post. “Thank you to my colleagues for their friendship and partnership over the years.”
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Attorney General Pam Bondy fired the Alcohol Department, Tobacco and Firearms Chief Advisor Pamela Hicks and Pamela Hicks on Thursday. (ATF/Getty Images)
A source familiar with the firing said Hicks was escorted from the ATF building at the time of her firing.
“ATF respects the rights of all employees,” the ATF told Fox News Digital when asked about Hicks' firing. “As a general policy, the ATF has not commented on HR matters, including, but not limited to, the presence of specific HR issues, actions, or ongoing investigations.”
The termination comes after a small number of senior DOJ officials have quit or been fired in recent days. At least seven federal prosecutors left Trump Dozi, who ordered a corruption charge against New York City Mayor Eric Adams in February, and on Tuesday, Trump ordered Dozi to be a “cleaner” for all Biden-era lawyers. Ta.
Attorney General Pam Bondy was confirmed as the country's 87th Attorney General on February 5th. (Getty Images/Fox News Digital)
“Therefore, I directed the end of all remaining “Biden-era” US lawyers. We must “clean our homes” quickly and regain confidence,” Trump wrote. “American golden age must have a fair judicial system — it starts today!” Trump posted to the Society of Truth.
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Bondy, who was confirmed as the country's 87th Attorney General on February 5, joined the Conservative Political Action Council (CPAC) near Washington, DC on Thursday, where the pure “volume” of DOJ's political weaponization remained. He said that. It had something to do with her from the Biden administration.
Alcohol Bureau, cigarettes, firearms and explosives (ATF) headquarters can be found in Washington, DC (Rich Clement/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
“What's my concern most? It's the amount of how bad it is, and it's still,” she said in a live episode of his podcast, “Verdict.” He said while I was talking. “We're working on that. Every day, we have a team of great people. And on the first day we issued 14 executive orders. And that's what we did.”
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Bondi added that DOJ's condition is “worst” than expected.
“In a bad way, that department has completely lost its mission to combat violent crime,” she said of the DOJ. “Look at what they did to President Trump. Look at weaponization. ”
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The ATF began in 2003 from the Department of Treasury to Justice, following the Homeland Security Act, which requires law enforcement to join the DOJ amid the restructuring of the federal government to combat terrorism after September 11th. was transported to.
