An anonymous group of FBI agents who worked on January 6, 2021, the investigation of the Capitol disturbances and other federal probes linked to President Trump are demanding the federal government for the federal government on the Department of Justice plans To review the FBI workforce and examine agents that may have worked on delicate investigations, according to a new judicial presentation.
Agents are demanding Department of Justice and his interim boss, interim attorney general James Mchenry, in a collective claim on behalf of all affected FBI agents. They are asking a federal judge to avoid the public release of the names of the agents who could face the scrutiny.
Tuesday’s demand is the last save in a current gap between FBI race employees and the leadership of the Department of Justice about possible Trump administration personnel changes within the office.
On Sunday, more than 1,000 FBI agents were asked throughout the country to complete questionnaires about their participation in January 6 and Trump exceeds as part of an evaluation of the Department of Justice of the Labor Force. On his first day in office, Mr. Trump Clemence granted to approximately 1,500 defendants who had been convicted of crimes on January 6.
On Friday, the interim attached attorney general, Emil Bove, ordered the interim director of the FBI Brian Driscoll to compile a list of all current and previous FBI employees that were assigned “at any time” to the JANUARY 6 RESEARCH “To determine if additional personnel actions are needed,” according to a memo reviewed by CBS News.
There are still no indications of what actions the Department of Justice can take against any person in the compiled lists and so far, a handful of senior career officials have been dismissed, while grassroots agents remain at work.
The nine unidentified FBI agents who filed the lawsuit on Tuesday claimed: “The purpose of this list is to identify the agents that will be fired or suffer other adverse employment actions.”
Their lawyers requested a jury trial and wrote that the agents feared that “this list could be published by President Trump’s allies, thus placing their families in immediate remuneration.”
The Department of Justice did not immediately respond to a request for comments.
Mchenry also recently instructed the United States prosecutor in Washington, DC, to dismiss certain prosecutors who had been assigned to investigate the disturbance of the Capitol of January 6, according to a separate memorandum dated January 31 and reviewed by CBS News. That decision, which mostly affected the contracted lawyers brought interimly to process the cases of January 6, is not subject to the new lawsuit.
And last week, eight executives of the FBI headquarters and the heads of several field offices, even in Washington, DC, were forced to resign, withdraw or the termination of the face.
James Dennehy, deputy director in charge of the New York FBI office, wrote in a note 1,200 agents and support personnel on Friday: “Today we are in the middle of our own battle, since good people are being taken from the FBI and others are being attacked because they did their job according to the law and the policy of the FBI. “
Personnel movements comply with a Trump campaign promise to clean the house in the Department of Justice. Shortly after assuming the position, the president signed an executive order to assume the “federal government weapon.”
Other lawyers and the FBI agents association have also sounded the alarm of recent labor actions and threatened additional legal actions.
On Tuesday, Driscoll, which leads the FBI on an interim way, while Kash Patel, the nominee of Mr. Trump, is considered by the Senate, the Senate, the Senate released a video in which he praised the work of the FBI workforce, but did not mention the ongoing agitation.
“We will never move our eyes away from our mission: protect the American people and defend the Constitution. Because in the office, we are focused on our work,” Driscoll said.
Scott Macfarlane
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