Harmeet Dhillon Shoots Down Claims of a ‘Mass Resignation’ Over ICE Shooting
“The media’s never-ending attempts to drum up drama and strife within the DOJ are exhausting.”
Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon slammed and shot down reports that numerous DOJ officials quit because she refused to investigate the ICE officer who shot and killed Renee Good.
“This is fake news,” Dhillon told The Daily Wire’s Mary Margaret Olohan. “No division employee quit.”
MS NOW reported that three people claimed these officials from the criminal section of the Civil Rights Division.
The media ate it up. I saw the articles, but decided to wait.
I’m glad I did because:
Dhillon tells me that 3 people applied for early retirement the day BEFORE the shooting. They gave notice weeks before.
The fourth person mentioned in the story put in for retirement in early December, a month before the incident took place.
2 of the other people that the story references have not resigned and are currently at their desks working, I’m told.
While they have “apparently told the press they intend to resign,” Dhillon said, “our office has not received notice of any resignations.”
Dhillon tells me that 3 people applied for early retirement the day BEFORE the shooting. They gave notice weeks before.
The fourth person mentioned in the story put in for retirement in early December, a month before the incident took place.
2 of the other people that the story…
— Mary Margaret Olohan (@MaryMargOlohan) January 13, 2026
“The media’s never-ending attempts to drum up drama and strife within the DOJ are exhausting,” Dhillon continued. “My team and I will not let it distract us from our mission of protecting the civil rights of ALL Americans. We thank those employees retiring for their years of service to the Department and our nation.”
Oh, it wasn’t just MSNBC.
We look forward to the retractions from:
Washington Post
CBS
MS Now
Bloomberg
Reuters— AAGHarmeetDhillon (@AAGDhillon) January 13, 2026
I don’t know why anyone would think the Civil Rights Division would have a hand in an investigation.
The FBI investigates these shooting.
ICE’s Office of Professional Responsibility has its own investigation.
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It IS exhausting. For all of us. Absolutely exhausting. The media is unhinged from reality.
When I saw those claims I figured, right that they were BS. Can any of these people sue for damages, it would be fun to see media have to pay big bucks.
Actually, I wouldn’t mind if more Leftists at DOJ resigned over this. It would make DOJ a berrer department.
Once you hire one of these left leaning bureaucrats it’s like termites have entered your house. They breed, they multiply, they move up into middle management positions to where they can hire more people who are just like them and will join their mindless droid club. The lights have been switched on in the kitchen but will they just hide under the sink until it’s safe to come out?
It doesn’t matter whether they resigned over this or over something else; so long as they’re gone. Good riddance to bad rubbish. Everyone who was working for the Civil Rights Division before Jan-20 of last year should be encouraged to follow them.
To be believed a big lie has to have some minimal foundation of truth as an anchor. That these people would leave because ICE is legally detaining criminals speaks volumes. Wholesale criminal activity is now just “the cost of doing business”. The Dems are seeing their voter and monetary base reduced. If only they really cared about American citizens as much.
Another fine post by Milhouse.
Powerline ran the story of Joe Thompson in Minnesota resigning. Apparently he’s a much respected assistant US attorney. Details are not provided but it doesn’t appear to be an ‘early retirement’. Wonder what’s going on with that one.
Maybe burnout?
Just for clarity, I’ve seen comments that seem to be conflating this story with what where reported in the NYT to be resignations from the Minnesota US Attorney’s office over possible investigation of Rebecca Good, Renee Good’s surviving partner and participant in the ICE obstruction. I’ve seem claims the MN resignations were over a lack of investigation into the ICE agent, or that they were covered by the refutation above.
powerlineblog.com/archives/2026/01/joe-thompson-resigns.php
While Joe Thompson’s actions in the MN fraud cases are commendable I don’t share in Scott Johnson’s bro-crush on the guy. As outlined by former AUSA Bill Shipley (Shipwreckedcrew) in an explainer before the ICE shooting, when Thompson was in charge of the fraud investigation it was wound down in the spring of 2024 (convenient for the coming elections), indicted only one person not of Somali ancestry, did not extend beyond the meal distribution program, and appeared to be careful cabined to not ask too many questions about the involvement of Minnesota political figures. I also don’t find being asked to be part of the Hur whitewash of Biden’s document security breaches to be anything worthy of praise as that was another instance where appearing to be impartial while carefully avoiding questions that would embarrass Democrats would be a useful skill.
The question MN people is why the 6 fed prosecutors resigned. They were making headway now?????
We read 6 but they may be on other cases
If they wouldn’t resign over protecting pedophiles why would they resign over protecting federal agents?
Because they like Biden. The entire Civil Rights Division, from top to bottom, was carefully stacked with ideological hires. I wouldn’t trust anyone who worked there before last year.
The MN prosecutors are being tight lipped about their “resignations.”
Apparently Thomson, the lead, intimiated it was over the ICE shooting and investigation into Good’s wife. That sounds like more bs, doesn’t it?
A more logical reason? They don’t want to investigate themselves…
the children of the left are empowered by our tax money
stop the empowerment of dem
Yesterday (here on LI?) I commented that the “resignation” story didn’t make sense. I wrote that Leftist US attorneys don’t usually resign, they accept their assignments and then drag their feet. It didn’t make sense to me that these attorneys resigned in protest of (as it this was framed yesterday) over a push to investigate Good’s partner (today the story has been reframed as “resignations to protest the non-investigation” into the ICE agent who shot Good). The story of “early retirements” makes more sense.
Can Good’s partner be charged for encouraging action leading to the death?
I think it’s clear that at least some at DOJ believes her actions may have been criminal. But, in part, that’s what an investigation is for – gathering facts about an incident and then determining if, based on those fact, a criminal charge could be pursued.
This is the likely explanation why DOJ immediately rejected an investigation into the ICE agent who shot Good – while many were still refusing to believe he was even threatened, the agent had been in hospital for treatment of his injuries. So DOJ already knew he had been struck. Having been in such danger that he was actually struck is a slam-dunk good shoot. No need for a formal investigation as irrefutable facts already showed the shooting was justified.