2026年9月30日 / 美国东部时间下午4:32 / 哥伦比亚广播公司新闻
一名司法部官员周三表示，曾试图推翻2020年选举结果以支持特朗普总统的选举否认者库尔特·奥尔森，将退出针对奥巴马和拜登时期官员的“重大阴谋”调查相关工作。
奥尔森周一通过电子邮件向佛罗里达州南区联邦检察官宣布了退出该案的意向。
一名司法部官员周三表示，哥伦比亚广播公司新闻周一曾报道奥尔森将辞去司法部职务，此前迈阿密和华盛顿的司法部官员误读了奥尔森的邮件，以为他要彻底离开联邦政府。
该官员称，直到多家媒体刊登了他辞职的报道后，奥尔森才致电司法部官员澄清，他仍打算继续以律师身份受雇于司法部。
奥尔森未回复寻求置评的电子邮件。
周三早些时候，关于奥尔森职位的争议被公开曝光，时任司法部长托德·布兰奇在一场无关的新闻发布会上被问及有关奥尔森辞职的新闻报道。
“库尔特·奥尔森并未辞职，”布兰奇说，并补充称外界存在“数量惊人的假新闻”。
当被问及奥尔森是否已退出该调查时，布兰奇回应道：“他仍在原来的岗位上受雇。”
但一名司法部官员随后澄清，尽管奥尔森仍将以高级顾问身份留任，但不会再被指派参与“重大阴谋”案。
目前尚不清楚奥尔森将在佛罗里达州南区联邦检察官办公室从事何种工作，因为又出现了一个障碍。
两名知情消息人士告诉哥伦比亚广播公司新闻，在奥尔森提交退出该案的电子邮件之前，他的安全许可就出现了问题。
由于缺乏安全许可，奥尔森无法有效参与“重大阴谋”调查——该调查需要审查与多个主题相关的机密证据，包括俄罗斯干预2016年总统大选的情报评估，以及前特别检察官杰克·史密斯针对特朗普总统留存机密文件的调查。
两名消息人士称，奥尔森曾表示有意调任至北卡罗来纳州中区联邦检察官办公室，为丹·毕晓普从事选举相关工作，但目前尚不清楚该调动能否实现。
奥尔森是今年第三位退出“重大阴谋”案及另一项相关调查的检察官，该调查旨在查明前中央情报局局长约翰·布伦南是否就中情局在2016年俄罗斯干预大选情报评估中的角色向国会撒谎。
佛罗里达州南区联邦检察官办公室国家安全部门负责人玛丽亚·梅德蒂斯·朗于4月被调离该案，原因是她对证据的可信度提出了担忧。
她很快被乔·迪杰诺瓦取代，迪杰诺瓦是20世纪80年代的前联邦检察官，此次重返司法部牵头负责“重大阴谋”案。
尽管证人正准备前往佛罗里达州大陪审团作证，迪杰诺瓦仍于9月突然辞职，原因是他与副部长办公室在案件管理方面存在分歧。
他曾代表特朗普的竞选团队，参与了推翻2020年选举结果的失败诉讼。
他长期以来一直抨击布伦南评估俄罗斯试图干预2016年大选的行为，曾在一次采访中称布伦南是“整个反情报调查的始作俑者”。
奥尔森于今年春季某个时候以高级顾问身份加入佛罗里达州南区联邦检察官办公室。
美国联邦调查局表示，他此前曾在白宫担任“总统任命的选举安全与诚信事务主任”。2020年，奥尔森作为律师与得克萨斯州总检察长肯·帕克斯顿一同敦促最高法院推翻选举结果。
今年早些时候，奥尔森将富尔顿县选举案件移交联邦调查局，促使特工于今年早些时候执行搜查令。根据联邦调查局的一份宣誓书，特工从2020年大选相关材料中查获了数十箱选票及其他物品。
一名直接知情人士透露，奥尔森还向司法部提交了多份与2020年大选相关的其他案件移交申请，其中包括亚利桑那州的一份。
Election denier Kurt Olsen steps down from “grand conspiracy” case, but remains on DOJ payroll, official says
September 30, 2026 / 4:32 PM EDT / CBS News
Kurt Olsen, an election denier who attempted to overturn the 2020 election results in favor of President Trump, is resigning from his role in the “grand conspiracy” investigation targeting Obama- and Biden-era officials, a Justice Department official said on Wednesday.
Olsen announced his intention to depart from the case in an email on Monday to the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Florida.
CBS News reported on Monday that Olsen was resigning from the Justice Department, after DOJ officials in both Miami and Washington misinterpreted Olsen’s email and thought he was leaving the federal government altogether, a department official said on Wednesday.
It was only after multiple media outlets ran stories about his resignation that Olsen later called Justice Department officials to clarify that he still intends to remain employed there as an attorney, the official said.
Olsen did not return an email seeking comment.
Confusion over Olsen’s role spilled into public view earlier on Wednesday, when Attorney General Todd Blanche was asked about the news reports of Olsen’s resignation during an unrelated press conference.
“Kurt Olsen has not resigned,” Blanche said, adding that there was an “incredible amount of fake news” out there.
When pressed whether Olsen had left the investigation, Blanche replied: “He’s still employed exactly where he was before.”
But a department official later clarified that while Olsen will still be on staff as senior counsel, he will not be assigned to the grand conspiracy matter.
It remains unclear what work Olsen will be performing in the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Southern District of Florida, since another obstacle has emerged.
Before he submitted his email resigning from the case, a problem arose with his security clearance, two sources with knowledge of the matter told CBS News.
The lack of a security clearance means Olsen could not effectively work on the grand conspiracy investigation, which entails reviewing classified evidence related to a variety of topics — ranging from the intelligence assessment on Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election to the investigation by former special counsel Jack Smith into President Trump’s retention of classified records.
Two sources said that Olsen has expressed an interest in possibly transferring to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of North Carolina to work for Dan Bishop on election matters, but it is unclear whether that will materialize.
Olsen is the third prosecutor this year to step down from working on the grand conspiracy case and a separate related probe into whether former CIA Director John Brennan lied to Congress about the agency’s role in the intelligence assessment on Russian interference in the 2016 election.
Maria Medetis Long, the head of the national security section in the Southern District of Florida, was removed from the case in April after she raised concerns about the strength of the evidence.
She was quickly replaced by Joe diGenova, a former federal prosecutor in the 1980s who returned to the Justice Department to spearhead the grand conspiracy case.
Even as witnesses were preparing to appear for testimony before the grand jury in Florida, diGenova abruptly resigned in September amid tensions with the Deputy Attorney General’s Office over the management of the case.
He represented Mr. Trump’s campaign in its failed attempt to overturn the 2020 election results.
He has long railed against Brennan’s role in assessing that Russia tried to meddle in the 2016 election, referring to him in one interview as the “primogenitor of the entire counterintelligence investigation.”
Olsen joined the Southern District of Florida as a senior counsel sometime in the spring.
He previously worked in the White House as a “Presidentially appointed Director of Election Security and Integrity,” the FBI said. In 2020, Olsen was an attorney working with Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton to urge the Supreme Court to overturn the election results.
Earlier this year, Olsen made the Fulton County election case referral to the FBI, prompting agents to execute a search warrant earlier this year. They seized dozens of boxes of ballots and other materials from the 2020 election, an FBI affidavit revealed.
Olsen has also made several other 2020 election-related referrals to the Justice Department, including one in Arizona, according to a source with direct knowledge.
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