2026年2月25日 / 美国东部时间下午6:16 / 哥伦比亚广播公司新闻
联邦调查局（FBI）国会事务办公室负责人马歇尔·耶茨（Marshall Yates）正在离开该局，多位消息人士向哥伦比亚广播公司新闻透露。
据直接了解此事的其他消息人士称，耶茨曾是国会山的一名工作人员，去年他担任联邦调查局在跨部门武器化工作组（Interagency Weaponization Working Group）的代表之一。该工作组由来自至少12个不同政府部门的数十名政府官员组成，其任务是执行特朗普总统对其政治对手进行报复的计划。
耶茨是被指派到该工作组的几名联邦调查局雇员之一。
这些消息人士称，他还参与了司法部领导的武器化工作组的相关工作，涉及对1月6日骚乱者的起诉，以及被解雇的前联邦调查局特工的潜在复职事宜。这些特工声称，他们在拜登政府期间因对新冠疫情协议有异议、1月6日事件及其他问题而被解雇。
一位消息人士称，耶茨的最后工作日预计是周五。ProPublica网站此前报道了他离职的消息。
一位熟悉耶茨计划的消息人士告诉哥伦比亚广播公司新闻，他辞职是为了有更多时间陪伴家人，目前正在协助寻找继任者。
哥伦比亚广播公司新闻联系耶茨寻求置评。
作为国会事务负责人，耶茨一直是与参议院司法委员会主席查尔斯·格拉斯利（Charles Grassley）讨论的关键人物。
在过去一年中，格拉斯利多次公布了与联邦调查局对特朗普总统调查相关的一系列文件，即所谓的”北极霜冻”（Arctic Frost）行动，但未隐去特工姓名。
这些名字公开后，联邦调查局解雇了这些特工。其中就包括沃尔特·贾尔迪纳（Walt Giardina），他曾参与调查特朗普及其政治盟友的案件。
前代理联邦调查局局长布莱恩·德里斯科尔（Brian Driscoll）和其他前高级官员已对联邦调查局提起诉讼，指控华盛顿特区办公室当时的负责人在一次会议中恳求联邦调查局局长卡什·帕特尔（Kash Patel）和耶茨不要向国会山披露贾尔迪纳的姓名，称贾尔迪纳的妻子正死于癌症，这样做还会”引发大量网络辱骂和暴力威胁”。
后来，格拉斯利办公室的记录中公布了贾尔迪纳的名字，他随后被解雇。
耶茨此前曾在肯塔基州共和党众议员托马斯·梅西（Thomas Massie）的办公室工作，后者正因司法部处理爱泼斯坦案件档案发布问题与司法部展开激烈言辞交锋。
他还曾是众议员莫·布鲁克斯（Mo Brooks）的助手，并与选举诚信网络（Election Integrity Network）合作。该网络由克莱塔·米切尔（Cleta Mitchell）牵头，米切尔是一名律师，曾参与推翻2020年总统选举结果的相关活动。米切尔对佐治亚州富尔顿县的选票提出质疑，并与特朗普总统和佐治亚州务卿进行了通话，在通话中，总统要求他”找到”足够的选票来推翻乔·拜登在该州的胜选结果。
FBI’s head of congressional affairs stepping down, sources say
February 25, 2026 / 6:16 PM EST / CBS News
Marshall Yates, who led the FBI’s congressional affairs office, is departing from the bureau, multiple sources told CBS News.
Yates, a former Capitol Hill staffer, last year served as one of the FBI’s representatives on the Interagency Weaponization Working Group, which is composed of dozens of government officials from at least 12 different government offices who are tasked with carrying out President Trump’s quest for retribution against his political enemies, according to other sources with direct knowledge of the matter.
Yates was one of several FBI employees assigned to the group.
He has also been involved with the Justice Department-led Weaponization Working Group on topics including the prosecutions of Jan. 6 rioters and the potential reinstatement of fired former FBI agents who have claimed they were removed during the Biden administration for complaints about COVID-19 protocols, the Jan. 6 cases and other issues, those sources said.
Yates’ last day is expected to be Friday, a source said. His departure was reported earlier by ProPublica.
A source familiar with Yates’ plans told CBS News he was stepping down to spend more time with family and is working to help find his replacement.
CBS News reached out to Yates for comment.
As the head of congressional affairs, Yates has been the key point person for discussions with Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Charles Grassley.
Over the last year, Grassley has repeatedly released a series of documents related to the FBI’s investigation into President Trump, known as “Arctic Frost,” without redacting agent names.
After those names became public, the FBI went on to fire them.
Among them was Walt Giardina, a former agent who worked on investigations into Trump and his political allies.
Former Acting FBI Director Brian Driscoll and other former senior officials have filed a lawsuit filed against the FBI, alleging that the then-head of the D.C. office begged FBI Director Kash Patel and Yates in a meeting not to disclose Giardina’s name to Capitol Hill, telling them that Giardina’s wife was dying of cancer and that doing so would also “trigger a torrent of online abuse and threats of violence.”
Giardina’s name was later released in records from Grassley’s office, and Giardina was fired.
Yates previously worked on Capitol Hill for Republican Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky, who is locked in a war of words with the Justice Department over its handling of the release of the Epstein files.
He was also previously an aide to Congressman Mo Brooks and worked with the Election Integrity Network, a group spearheaded by Cleta Mitchell, a lawyer who was involved in efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. Mitchell raised questions about ballots in Fulton County, Georgia, and participated in a call with Mr. Trump and the Georgia secretary of state, in which the president asked him to “find” enough votes to overturn Joe Biden’s victory in the state.
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