Project 2025 Tracker / What’s done, what’s next

17. Department of Justice · Minor

Redirect FBI notifications and approvals to the relevant Assistant Attorney General

Not started

Printed page 550 17. Department of Justice

“All notifications and approvals that currently run to the Deputy Attorney General or the Attorney General should be evaluated and redirected in the first instance, where appropriate, to the relevant Assistant Attorney General.”

What has happened

  1. Not started

    No redirection of FBI notifications or approvals has been published. Searched the Federal Register Corpus for every Justice Department rule and proposed rule in the window (all 28 CFR part 0 organizational amendments among them), the whitehouse.gov presidential-actions Corpus, all 2,087 Justice Department headquarters press releases fetched from the department's own press API for the window, and the FBI's national press-release feed. This ask follows the organizational move in #1531, which has not happened; the approval routes it would redirect run through the Deputy Attorney General as before. The one approval change the Attorney General did make in the window ran to racketeering charges, not to the FBI: the cartels memorandum suspended the Criminal Division's Violent Crime and Racketeering Section sign-off for charges against cartels and transnational criminal organizations.

Research log

What was searched, and what didn’t count as evidence

Research notes

One negative search covered the whole cluster of FBI structure asks, #1531, #1532, #1534, #1535, #1536 and #1537.

Action
transfer
Object
FBI notification and approval chain
ID
1532