The FBI has promoted Deputy General Counsel Bradley Brooker to general counsel, a post that former director James Comey once described as the “worst job” at the 35,000-employee agency.

Brooker has been in charge of the FBI’s National Security and Cyber Law Branch since joining the agency in 2021. Before that, he spent eight years with the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, where he rose to principal deputy general counsel. He twice served as the office’s acting general counsel—a 16-month stint that started in 2017 and a 20-month stint that started in 2020.