Posted on 02/04/2025 12:26:25 PM PST by bitt
(CNN) — FBI officials have complied with demands to provide the Justice Department with a list of thousands of employees who worked on investigations related to the January 6, 2021, US Capitol riot, according to people familiar with the situation.
The demand has caused consternation among FBI employees who fear it is meant to amass a list of personnel for possible termination by the Trump administration.
Acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove, in a Friday memo with the subject line “Terminations,” had given FBI officials a noon deadline Tuesday to submit the names of thousands of agents and analysts. Bove previously ordered the firing of eight senior FBI officials, including those who oversaw cyber, national security and criminal investigations.
More than 5,000 names were submitted, sources said. There are more than 13,000 agents and 38,000 total FBI employees.
Meanwhile, officials dispatched by Elon Musk have been seen at FBI headquarters. Musk has headed up efforts by President Donald Trump’s newly formed Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE.
But several FBI employees on Tuesday sued the Justice Department, accusing it of violating the Constitution and privacy laws by demanding that agents complete a survey allegedly designed to “purge” bureau personnel. The agents want a federal judge to block the Trump administration from publishing or releasing the surveys or any information included in their answers.
“The very act of compiling lists of persons who worked on matters that upset Donald Trump is retaliatory in nature, intended to intimidate FBI agents and other personnel, and to discourage them from reporting any future malfeasance and by Donald Trump and his agents,” the lawsuit alleges.
The survey agents were required to fill out included questions about their positions at the bureau and specific roles in January 6 investigations,
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I hope this includes the names of the agents who raided Mar-a-lago.
The 5000 are probably patsies, and the real culprits didn’t get handed over.
We can’t have a Roman-style decimation, but at minimum, the FBI should be completely disarmed
They can/should continue with all their investigations and counter-espionage.
But if they want to raid/arrest someone they deem possibly violent, they should be forced to coordinate with US Marshals or local police forces.
Get rid of the Stasi wannabes, Seal-team Six larpers, and testosterone cowboys. It would probably also increase their collective IQ by 20 points.
Those videos of the FBI teams raiding grandmothers’ homes like they were in Fallujah is BEYOND THE PALE FOR A CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC.
Even the Gestapo wasn’t so militaristic.
Apparently the FBI doesn’t have enough work to do. Time to fire.
Isn’t the FBI the one that wire taps people’s phones w/o warrants?
And has argued that there is no “Right to privacy” in the Constitution?
Rebuild from the ground up.
“Here’s How Many FBI Employees Who Were Tasked With Taking Down Trump”
My kid wouldn't be anywhere near this travesty - it would shame the family.
If yours was EFF his/her job.
Anyone notice that in the article CNN is no longer calling J6 and “Insurrection”.....but using the term “riot” now.
baby steps I guess.
Kash Patel has said before the Senate ‘98% of the FBI agents are good people’. Will he apologize for misleading the American people and give the reason why?
Should announcements have been withheld until after Kash is confirmed?
I doubt the list includes any involved in the assassination attempts.
“Here’s How Many FBI Employees Who Were Tasked With Taking Down Trump”
Kash has also said he’d convert the FBI Hoover building into a museum of the Deep State.
Last thing I read they were planning on suing the DOJ to keep from turning over the list. Must be they realized that suing your boss isn’t in your best interest. Now fire the a-holes who stalled this $hit to begin with.
They’re upset about the government compiling lists of names. Ironic- how many innocent Americans are on FBI LISTS, databases.
I’m told the nazi soldiers had similar concerns at Nuremberg
Yep. Talk to the J6 political prisoners. No sympathy whatsoever.
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