The Federal Bureau of Investigation announced that Director James B. Comey had named E.W. Priestap Assistant Director of the Counterintelligence Division. The Bureau’s release is the identity lock. One notable public official matches that name and title.
The same FBI release traces the career the Bureau chose to publish. He entered the FBI in 1998 in Chicago on organized crime and drug cases. After September 11, 2001, the release puts him on counterterrorism in Chicago. In 2003 he became a supervisory special agent in the Office of Congressional Affairs and was detailed to the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on what became the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004. In 2005 he was special assistant to the Assistant Director of the Directorate of Intelligence. In 2006 he went to the New York Field Office and later served as an Assistant Special Agent in Charge for intelligence and counterintelligence. In 2012 he was a section chief in the Counterintelligence Division at Headquarters. In 2013 he was Special Agent in Charge for Counterintelligence in New York. The announcement says he then served as Deputy Assistant Director, Intelligence Operations Branch, Directorate of Intelligence. The FBI said he is an attorney and holds master’s degrees in business administration and education administration.
Strider Technologies later dated the Counterintelligence Assistant Director tour December 2015 through December 2018, and said he retired from the FBI in early 2019. That is the firm’s own bio page, not a personnel file.
This page is the appointment. Crossfire Hurricane is a later post. An FBI press release is not a court.