{"id":2397747,"date":"2025-02-01T09:21:01","date_gmt":"2025-02-01T14:21:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-doj-fires-fbi-agents-lawyers-who-worked-on-jan-6-cases-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2025-02-01T09:22:37","modified_gmt":"2025-02-01T14:22:37","slug":"trump-doj-fires-fbi-agents-lawyers-who-worked-on-jan-6-cases-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-doj-fires-fbi-agents-lawyers-who-worked-on-jan-6-cases-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump DOJ fires FBI agents, lawyers who worked on Jan. 6 cases &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrump-doj-fires-fbi-agents-lawyers-who-worked-on-jan-6-cases-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2397747&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The Justice \u2064Department has\u2064 taken\u2062 critically important action against FBI agents\u200c adn prosecutors involved \u2063in the January 6 Capitol riot investigations, \u2064leading to the dismissal \u2064of eight executive-level \u2063officials. Emil Bove,\u2063 <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">acting deputy attorney general<\/a>, has ordered the FBI to \u2062compile a list of those associated \u2062with the January 6 cases, which could affect thousands of employees nationwide. FBI acting Director Brian Driscoll confirmed the sweeping \u200dmoves in an \u200demail, \u2064while expressing the intention \u2062to act within legal and policy guidelines.Concerns\u2064 have been raised by the \u200cSociety of Former Agents of the \u200dFBI regarding the potential impact\u200d on national\u200c security and the\u200d fairness of these actions, suggesting a drastic internal \u200dupheaval. Additionally, the\u200c U.S.attorney&#8217;s office has also been instructed \u200bto terminate \u2064over two dozen prosecutors involved in similar cases. this shake-up is\u2064 seen as a \u200dmove by Trump to \u200dretaliate against officials he believes have \u200cpolitically motivated against him and his supporters. Trump has previously referred to the\u2062 FBI as being &#8220;weaponized&#8221; against him, indicating\u200b his stance on\u200c the investigations into January 6.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Trump DOJ fires FBI agents, lawyers who worked on Jan. 6 cases<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1963046\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/justice-department\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Justice Department<\/a> took sweeping actions Friday against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/fbi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">FBI<\/a> agents and prosecutors involved in investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riot by ordering firings and warning that thousands more could face &ldquo;personnel action.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/Donald-Trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Donald Trump<\/a>&lsquo;s acting deputy attorney general, Emil Bove, issued the directives, which sent shockwaves across the bureau just before the weekend. Bove ordered the FBI to dismiss eight executive-level officials and demanded a list of names by Tuesday of anyone else who had any interactions with the Jan. 6 investigation, according to an email.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/finance-and-economy\/3242203\/what-items-affected-trump-tariffs-canada-mexico\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">PRICES ON THESE ITEMS COULD BE AFFECTED BY TRUMP TARIFFS ON MEXICO, CANADA<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Multiple people confirmed to the <em>Washington Examiner<\/em> that FBI acting Director Brian Driscoll sent the email to the bureau, saying that such a list would include &ldquo;thousands of employees across the country.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>In addition to anyone involved with the wide-ranging <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/january-6\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Jan. 6 investigation<\/a>, Driscoll said Bove also unexpectedly asked for names of people involved with a case in New York that was unsealed in September against Ismail Haniyeh and others, who are alleged members of the Hamas terrorist group.<\/p>\n<p>Driscoll wrote that he and his deputy, Robert Kissane, will both be named on the list he provides to Bove. Driscoll wrote that he would provide more information to the bureau once he had it and that he planned to &ldquo;follow the law, follow FBI policy, and do what&rsquo;s in the best interest of the workforce and the American people &mdash; always.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The Society of Former Agents of the FBI, which comprises 8,500 members, including a couple hundred current members, believed the directives were &ldquo;pretty outrageous&rdquo; and that a mass culling at the FBI would be &ldquo;disastrous.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Do you know what that would do to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/national-security\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">national security<\/a> alone?&rdquo; the society&rsquo;s president, Mike Clark, told the <em>Washington Examiner.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Clark added that he was concerned that those in the society who are also still working at the bureau &ldquo;seem to have been treated unfairly and are randomly being singled out and terminated without cause.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Two sources said some of the FBI agents who will be included on the list are those now involved in the investigation into the recent plane collision in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/washington-dc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Washington, D.C.<\/a>, that claimed the lives of 67 people. One described the initial terminations and anticipated additional firings as an internal &ldquo;bloodbath.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The FBI said it is declining to comment on any questions regarding personnel matters.<\/p>\n<p>The bureau was not the only agency to see a shake-up late on Friday. In a memo shared online by Trump senior adviser Stephen Miller, Bove also ordered the U.S. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/confirmed-the-number-of-indefinitely-confined-wisconsin-voters-who-can-vote-without-ids-increased-from-60000-in-2016-to-over-200000-in-2020\/\" title=\"Confirmed: The Number of &#039;Indefinitely Confined&#039; Wisconsin Voters Who Can Vote without IDs Increased from 60,000 in 2016 to Over 200,000 in 2020\">attorney&#038;rsquo<\/a>;s office in Washington to terminate prosecutors who worked on Jan. 6 cases. <em>Politico<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/kyledcheney\/status\/1885476139067494860\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported<\/a> that that number included more than two dozen DOJ lawyers.<\/p>\n<p>The memo indicated that the prosecutors were initially &ldquo;term&rdquo; employees who had been brought into the U.S. attorney&rsquo;s office in Washington in recent years specifically to work on Jan. 6 cases.<\/p>\n<p>Days earlier, the DOJ also abruptly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/3302124\/doj-fires-prosecutors-jack-smith-team\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">fired<\/a> a swath of career prosecutors who worked on former special counsel Jack Smith&rsquo;s team, prompting some legal experts to raise concerns that the prosecutors were legally entitled to more notice.<\/p>\n<p>The ousters mark a dramatic escalation&nbsp;by Trump to retaliate against those he believes had improper political motivations to bring criminal charges against him or his supporters who attacked the Capitol.<\/p>\n<p>Trump has long described the FBI as &ldquo;weaponized&rdquo; against him and his supporters and described the Jan. 6 perpetrators, including those who attacked police officers, as &ldquo;hostages&rdquo; whom the DOJ wrongly targeted. Some critics of the Jan. 6 cases have said the DOJ was unusually heavy-handed with the rioters who committed misdemeanors.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/White-House\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">White House<\/a> did not respond to a request for comment. Trump told a reporter Friday when asked about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/union-or-woke-activist-group-new-york-times-employees-raise-questions-about-guilds-role-in-recent-dismissals\/\" title=\"Union or Woke Activist Group? New York Times Employees Raise Questions About Guild\u2019s Role in Recent Dismissals\">recent dismissals<\/a> and the possibility of many more that he was not aware of them.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;But we have some very bad people over there. It was weaponized at a level that nobody has ever seen before,&rdquo; Trump said. &ldquo;They came after a lot of people like me, but they came after a lot of people. No, I wasn&rsquo;t involved in that. I&rsquo;ll have to see what is exactly going on after this is finished.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1963046\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1963046\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump&#8217;s DOJ dismisses FBI agents and lawyers linked to Jan. 6 cases<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":2397748,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/trump-no-tax-on-tips-nevada-rally.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[7076,5591,32087,4133,3634],"class_list":["post-2397747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-doj","tag-fbi","tag-jan-6","tag-news","tag-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/trump-no-tax-on-tips-nevada-rally.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2397747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2397747"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2397747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2397751,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2397747\/revisions\/2397751"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2397748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2397747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2397747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2397747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}