FBI gives DOJ details about employees who worked on January 6: NPR

FBI and ATF law enforcement pushing supporters of President Trump as they protested inside the US capital on January 6, 2021 in Washington, DC

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On Tuesday, the FBI handed a list to the Justice Department of Bureau employees who worked on January 6 Capitol Riot Investigation – but did not include individuals’ names due to security concerns, according to a person who is familiar with the case.

Instead of names, the FBI provided what is known as a unique employee identifier -essentially an employee -ID number, the person said on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss staff questions.

The Bureau also submitted the current title of each individual, their title at the time of the relevant study, their role in it, the date of activity and their current office. Information about about 4,000 FBI employees was transferred to the department, the person said.

The FBI management submitted the information in response to a memo from the Trump Justice Department last week and instructed the agency to identify all current and former FBI staff who worked on January 6 or prosecution of Hamas leaders last year.

The information is part of an effort to reintroduce the FBI and the Department of Justice to serve President Trump’s agenda and push they are considered disloyal. Trump was facing the Ministry of Justice in a few criminal cases over the last few years – until these prosecutions were laid out after he won the election.

IN Same memoWith the subject line “Endings”, Vice President ordered -General Attorney Emil Bove shooting of eight senior FBI officials, which led to panic at the FBI for a possible cleansing of thousands of agents in return for their work with Capitol Riot cases.

Since then, the FBI employees were asked to complete a study that would detail their specific role in the studies.

Litigation follows

The FBI agents filed two separate litigation in the federal court in Washington, DC, against the Ministry of Justice, who tried to block it to publish a list of FBI employees or their personal information.

One of the lawsuits was brought by the FBI Agent’s Association and Anonymous Agents, which counts the vast majority of the agency’s approx. 15,000 agents as members. The second suit was anonymously anonymous by a group of nine FBI agents.

Both complaints cite concern over potential retaliation of January 6, the accused of FBI employees investigating them. Trump pardoned approx. 1,500 Capitol Riot defendants, including persons convicted of police assault.

“The applicants claim that the purpose of this list is to identify agents to be completed or to suffer other unfavorable employment measures,” one of the lawsuits states. “The plaintiffs are reasonably feared that all or part of this list can be published by the Allies by President Trump and thus place themselves and their families in immediate danger in retaliation of the now pardoned and large 6th January convicted criminals.”

The lawsuit filed by the FBI Agent’s Association includes what it says are examples of January 6 accused who received pardon who publicly published on social media about the FBI officials who investigated them.

In one of them, proud boys leader Enrique Tarrio, who was convicted of seductive conspiracy and sentenced to 22 years in prison before he was pardoned by Trump, “openly expressed his intention to seek retaliation against the FBI,” the trial said.

The Ministry of Justice refused to comment.