FBI agents Sue Trump Doj over the effort to target January 6 Investigation Workers | FBI

Two groups of named FBI agents sued the Ministry of Justice on Tuesday to block it to collect information about thousands of agents and other employees who worked with the criminal investigations against Donald Trump and cases against January 6 Capitol Riot accused.

The lawsuits came after Emil Bove, the functioning Deputy Director’s Attorney, ordered the FBI to compile and turn a list of any agent who worked on these cases and their roles, which would then be reviewed for staff decisions.

In the archives, lawyers for the agents asked that the Ministry of Justice was blocked to collect or disseminate the lists. They added that using the information to fire FBI employees would be repayable and illegal and would violate the protection of civil service.

Filing emphasizes the uncertainty and congestion that has grabbed the FBI for several days. Much of the upheaval happened in the wake of the temporary director, Brian Driscoll, and said in an internal memo that he had been ordered to shoot eight senior leaders to shoot eight senior leaders at the agency unless they withdrew beforehand.

In the same memo, Driscoll revealed that he had been instructed to identify agents who had worked on January 6 cases, which triggered fears at the FBIS Washington headquarters and at other field offices that agents may have been fired for having been awarded a Case that twisted the President.

The turmoil at the FBI follows Tumult by the Ministry of Justice. The Guardian reported on Tuesday that more than a dozen prosecutors who had worked with the special lawyer against Trump had been fired last week in the president’s personal direction.

Driscoll has refused to approve any effort to start mass cleansings on the FBI, according to people who are familiar with the case. But his attitude in itself may be under control, given that he and his deputy, Robert Kissane, both worked the 6th of January-related cases.

The first trial, brought by nine FBI agentswas styled as a class case on behalf of as many as 6,000 affected agents who either worked in a 6th of January or in the criminal investigation into Trump’s erroneous processing of classified documents at Mar-A-Lago in 2022.

“The applicants are employees of the FBI, who worked on January 6 and/or Mar-A-Lago cases and have been informed that they are likely to be completed in the near future (week 3-9 February 2025) for Such an activity, ”the trial said.

The trial also showed for the first time The questionnaire The affected agents had been asked to implement. Investigative question asked the rank of the FBI employee and whether they had been part of senior -executing staff, such as a special agent responsible, an assistant director or a section manager.

The study also asked about their specific responsibilities in the January 6th case they had been assigned. Specifically, it asked if they had arrested suspects, helped with the collection of evidence, presented or reviewed the Grand Jury presentations, the interview witnesses, led a search order or witnessed during trial, among other actions.

The second lawsuit brought by seven FBI agents and the FBI Agent’s Association asked a federal judge to impose a temporary restriction order to prevent the Ministry of Justice from releasing the names of agents on the list and pressed that it was prevented from getting the list at all.

It also outlined the questions in the study, but added a strange detail that some of the agents who had been asked to fill in the questionnaire asked.

“Whether Information and Faith is the Ministry of Justice at the moment in a state of transition inorganization and has been unable to verify the accuracy of this basic information data for its members,” the trial states.

The second trial was brought on behalf of a group of anonymous FBI agents and technical staff – a demonstration of how the internal review has become – by Mark Zaid and Brad Moss, prominent national security lawyers in Washington, and Norm Eisen, the executive chairman of the State Democracy Defender’s findings.