FBI Provides the Trump Justice Department with Details About 5,000 Employees Who Worked Jan. 6 Cases; FBI Agents Sue to Halt Trump’s DOJ from Blacklisting Those Who Worked on Jan. 6, Classified Docs Cases

By admin On Feb 6, 2025

FBI provides the Trump Justice Department with details about 5,000 employees who worked Jan. 6 cases: reports:

The FBI complied with an order from President Trump’s Justice Department on Tuesday and provided DOJ officials with information about more than 5,000 employees who worked on investigations related to the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the US Capitol, according to multiple reports.

The demand, made by acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove last week, sparked concern and triggered lawsuits arguing that the lists could put the safety of FBI agents and their families at risk.

However, the information furnished by the bureau does not include employee names, according to CNN

The outlet reported that employee ID numbers, job titles and their role in Jan. 6 investigations, were included in the information submitted to the DOJ.

Acting FBI Director Brian Driscoll, Jr., informed employees Friday that the DOJ had asked for the information so that it could conduct “a review process to determine whether any additional personnel actions are necessary,” according to multiple outlets.

On Tuesday, nine FBI agents filed a class-action lawsuit against the Justice Department in response to the request, alleging that acting Attorney General James McHenry and other DOJ officials were retaliating against them by distributing surveys asking about their involvement in cases against Trump and his supporters in order “to be terminated or to suffer other adverse employment action.”

The agents asserted that “even if they are not targeted for termination, they may face other retaliatory acts such as demotion, denial of job opportunities or denial of promotions in the future.”

In a separate Tuesday filing in DC federal court, the FBI’s union and other anonymous bureau employees asked for a temporary restraining order against the DOJ. —>READ MORE HERE

FBI agents sue to halt Trump’s DOJ from blacklisting those who worked on Jan. 6, classified docs cases:

FBI agents filed a class-action lawsuit against the Justice Department Tuesday, saying they are being singled out by higher-ups for punishment over their investigation of the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot and classified documents cases against President Trump.

Nine FBI agents allege acting Attorney General James McHenry and other DOJ officials are retaliating against them by distributing surveys asking about their involvement in the former probes of the president in order for the agents “to be terminated or to suffer other adverse employment action.”

The lawsuit, which calls the effort “politically motivated retribution,” came on the same day the Trump administration had set as a deadline for the Justice Department to identify FBI agents involved in both cases.

As part of their filing in DC federal court, the bureau employees also submitted screenshots of the survey querying each agent’s investigative duties and title while working on what became special counsel Jack Smith’s since-dismissed indictments of the 45th president.

Smith resigned Jan. 10 after dropping the cases — and more than a dozen prosecutors who participated were fired after Trump assumed office last month.

The agents asserted that “even if they are not targeted for termination, they may face other retaliatory acts such as demotion, denial of job opportunities or denial of promotions in the future.”

“Plaintiffs reasonably fear that all or parts of this list might be published by allies of President Trump, thus placing themselves and their families in immediate danger of retribution by the now pardoned and at-large Jan. 6 convicted felons,” the filing also notes.