Last month, acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove ordered the FBI to start compiling the names of every FBI agent who'd worked on a Jan. 6th case.
It's suspected that a LOT of FBI agents were involved in the cases:
In response, attorneys for two separate groups of FBI employees filed suit Tuesday demanding the agency stop compiling the names of Jan. 6th agents.
''Attorneys for nine of the plaintiffs [part of one group], who filed their suit anonymously in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, said the compilation of the list was retaliatory and a possible precursor for unlawful firings,'' according to The Washington Post. ''Using case assignment information as a basis to terminate FBI employees would violate civil service protections, they said.''
''The lawsuit also raises concerns that Trump administration officials might make public the names of the agents who were assigned to work on the cases, exposing them and their families to retribution from now-pardoned defendants charged in the Jan. 6 attack,'' the Post's reporting continues.
The other seven plaintiffs and the FBI Agents Association, a nonprofit advocacy group, filed a similar suit.
Two days after they filed suit, a DOJ lawyer told U.S. District Judge Jia M. Cobb that the department wasn't interested in making the list public.
''He said the list would be used for an internal study, citing an executive order Mr. Trump issued on his first day in office demanding a Justice Department review of what the administration described as the 'weaponization' of law enforcement under President Biden,'' according to The New York Times
...which still proudly claims Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize...
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