E. W. Priestap

Bill Priestap
Born	Edward William Priestap
Nationality	American
Other names	E. W. Priestap
Occupation	Attorney, intelligence official
Employer	Federal Bureau of Investigation
Spouse(s)	Sabina Menschel
Relatives	Richard Menschel (father-in-law) Ronay A. Menschel (mother-in-law) Robert Menschel (uncle-in-law)

Edward William Priestap, also known as Bill Priestap, is an American attorney and intelligence official. Since 2015, he has been the assistant director of the FBI Counterintelligence Division.

Priestap earned "master's degrees in business administration and education administration."

Priestap joined the Federal Bureau of Investigation in 1998, and he was appointed as assistant director of the FBI Counterintelligence Division in 2015.

In June 2017, Priestap told the PBS NewsHour program that Russian intelligence "used fake news and propaganda and they also used online amplifiers to spread the information to as many people as possible" during the 2016 United States presidential election.

In the Nunes memo, released in February 2018, Priestap suggests the Trump–Russia dossier had not been completely investigated prior to their application for a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant to surveil U.S. citizen Carter Page.

Priestap has a wife, Sabina Menschel, "the current head of the [Washington] D.C. office of Nardello & Co [...], the top private-eye firm in the Beltway," whose father, Richard Menschel, is a Goldman Sachs investment banker, philanthropist and Democratic donor like her uncle Robert Menschel. His mother-in-law, Ronay A. Menschel, was a Democratic deputy mayor of New York City under Ed Koch.

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