James Dennehy, the head of the FBI's New York office, is out one month after he urged colleagues to “dig in” after the new administration requested the names of all agents who worked on Capitol riot cases.

Although he was not given an official reason for his forced resignation, his ousting comes after he pushed back against an order from Acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove last month to turn over a list of all of the agents involved in investigations related to the January 6 attack on the capitol.

The head of the FBI’s New York field office, who had been critical of Trump administration firings at the bureau, says he was forced out of his role. James Dennehy, the assistant director in