WASHINGTON — The FBI has targeted another round of employees who ran afoul of conservatives, forcing out two veteran agents in Virginia — one of whom is friends with a critic of President Donald Trump — and punishing another in Las Vegas, according to several people familiar with the matter.
Two of the men, Spencer Evans and Stanley Meador, are senior agents who ran FBI field offices in Las Vegas and Richmond. The third, Michael Feinberg, a top deputy in the Norfolk office, had ties to a former agent whom Kash Patel, the FBI director, identified in his book as part of the so-called deep state.
The moves add to the transfers, ousters and demotions that have rippled across the FBI as Patel and Dan Bongino, his No. 2, promise to remake the country’s premier law enforcement agency. The wave