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

17. Department of Justice · Notable

Strip the FBI's Office of General Counsel and move legal services to DOJ

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551 17. Department of Justice

“Streamline the non–law enforcement functions within the FBI, such as its Office of General Counsel, and obtain those services from other offices within the department.”

What has happened

  1. Not started

    The FBI's Office of General Counsel is intact and no legal services have been moved to other Justice Department offices. 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. Nothing in any rule, memorandum or release addresses the office.

    No action found yet. This entry is the starting point, not a finding.

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 Office of General Counsel
ID
1534