{"id":2399118,"date":"2025-02-05T09:15:01","date_gmt":"2025-02-05T14:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fbi-surrenders-details-of-5000-bureau-employees-and-their-role-in-jan-6-cases-to-trumps-doj\/"},"modified":"2025-02-05T09:15:50","modified_gmt":"2025-02-05T14:15:50","slug":"fbi-surrenders-details-of-5000-bureau-employees-and-their-role-in-jan-6-cases-to-trumps-doj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fbi-surrenders-details-of-5000-bureau-employees-and-their-role-in-jan-6-cases-to-trumps-doj\/","title":{"rendered":"FBI Surrenders Details of 5,000 Bureau Employees and Their Role in Jan. 6 Cases to Trump\u2019s DOJ"},"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\">34<\/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%2Ffbi-surrenders-details-of-5000-bureau-employees-and-their-role-in-jan-6-cases-to-trumps-doj%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=2399118&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 article discusses a recent demand from the Trump administration for the FBI to disclose details about approximately\u200c 5,000 agents\u200d involved in\u200d investigations related to \u2064the January 6 Capitol riot. Following a \u200cmemo from acting Deputy Attorney General \u200cEmil Bove threatening termination for non-compliance, the FBI submitted details including \u200bIDs and job \u200ctitles, but not names. This\u200c action has\u2063 prompted a lawsuit from FBI employees\u200b claiming it violates their constitutional rights and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/volleyball-girls-at-vermont-high-school-banned-from-girls-locker-room-for-refusing-to-change-in-front-of-boy\/\" title=\"Volleyball Girls at Vermont High School Banned From Girls&#039; Locker Room for Refusing to Change in Front of Boy\">federal privacy laws<\/a>,framing \u200bthe request as a &#8220;purge&#8221; aimed at retaliation for their \u2062examination roles.<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit argues that compiling lists of \u200bagents who participated in the probe is intended to intimidate them and discourage future reporting on wrongdoing.\u200b Despite reassurances from FBI director nominee Kash Patel that agents \u200bwould not face \u200drepercussions, fears persist among staff regarding potential violent retaliation from Trump supporters. While some acknowledge the need for investigating any misconduct associated with the January 6 incident, \u2064there is concern over the politicization of \u200bthe investigations and the use of government power to target \u200bindividuals for their actions during the riot.  <\/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\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?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<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_0)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>In the latest move indicating the federal bureaucracy is resigning itself to the prerogatives of the Donald Trump administration &mdash; as opposed to fighting them &mdash; the FBI has agreed to turn over the details of the roughly 5,000 FBI agents who played a role in investigating cases relating to Jan. 6.<\/p>\n<p>According to a Tuesday <a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2025\/02\/04\/politics\/fbi-employees-tuesday\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CNN<\/a> report, bureau officials complied with a demand from the administration to provide the details after a memo with the subject line &ldquo;Terminations&rdquo; was sent Friday.<\/p>\n<p>That memo, from acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove, said that officials with the FBI had until noon on Tuesday to submit the details or face termination.<\/p>\n<p>Bove had previously been involved in the termination of eight other senior <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/jordan-whistleblowers-say-fbi-employees-attended-pro-trump-jan-6-events-targeted-removal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FBI employees<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The tactic worked: &ldquo;More than 5,000 employee details were submitted, including employee ID numbers, job titles and their role in the January 6 investigations, sources said, but not their names,&rdquo; CNN reported.<\/p>\n<p> <script type=\"text\/javascript\"> \t\t\tif ( getCookie( \"ff_subbed\" ) ) { \t\t\t\tdocument.getElementById(\"stnvideo\").remove() \t\t\t} \t\t<\/script> <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;There are more than 13,000 agents and 38,000 total FBI employees.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The move is already the subject of a lawsuit by FBI employees against the DOJ, accusing it of violating both their Constitutional rights and federal privacy laws by painting the demand &mdash; and requiring them to take a survey about what role they might have played in the investigation &mdash; as part of a &ldquo;purge.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The survey asked them about whether they testified before grand juries or trials, executed arrests, or had specific roles in Jan. 6 investigations.<\/p>\n<p>The suit demands that a <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">judge block release<\/a> of their information or their answers to the survey.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;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,&rdquo; the suit contended.<\/p>\n<p>FBI director nominee <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/kash-patel-stuns-klobuchar-puts-timer-got-two-minutes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kash Patel<\/a>, however, said in Senate testimony that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jd-vance-is-prepared-to-debate-kamala\/\" title=\"JD Vance is prepared to debate Kamala\">agents wouldn&#038;rsquo<\/a>;t face retribution for working on Jan. 6, merely a review of the work agents did &mdash; something Bove&rsquo;s demand for information seems to comport with.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I think if anyone commits a wrong in government service, the American public deserve to know every absolute detail of that corrupt activity,&rdquo; Patel <a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2025\/01\/30\/politics\/takeaways-kash-patel-fbi-confirmation-hearing\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> during his testimony before the Senate.<\/p>\n<p>However, the agents involved feared not only that they might lose their job &mdash; according to the suit &mdash; but would be set upon by violent Trump supporters.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Plaintiffs reasonably fear that all or parts of this list might be published by allies of President Trump, thus placing themselves and their families in immediate danger of retribution by the now pardoned and at-large Jan. 6 convicted felons,&rdquo; the suit claimed, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us\/fbi-agents-sue-justice-dept-protect-identities-jan-6-agents-filing-says-2025-02-04\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reuters<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And one <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/house-report-reveals-fbi-employees-spoke-politicized-rot\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FBI employee<\/a> was worried about merely answering the survey, according to another <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us\/fbi-staff-ordered-reveal-their-role-jan-6-probes-by-monday-2025-02-02\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reuters&rsquo; report<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I know myself and others receiving this questionnaire have a lot of questions and concerns, which I am working hard to get answers to,&rdquo; said Chad Yarbrough, assistant director of the Criminal Investigative Division at FBI headquarters, in an  obtained by the wire service.<\/p>\n<p>Two things can be true at the same time, of course.<\/p>\n<p>First, political retribution for the mere act of participating in an investigation is wrong, and neither the survey nor the information should be used solely to fire people for doing so.<\/p>\n<p>Secondly, we now know enough to know that the FBI&rsquo;s reaction to the Jan. 6 Capitol incursion was far from commensurate with what it turned out to be: not an &ldquo;insurrection,&rdquo; but a handful of chaos tourists who overwhelmed security personnel at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/trump-says-requested-10k-national-guard-troops-capitol-days-riot-pelosi-leaders-rejected\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">an undersecured location<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To the extent that criminality was committed, it should have been investigated and punished accordingly. However, the use of the full power of the federal government to make the Capitol incursion look &mdash; wrongly &mdash; like an &ldquo;attack on democracy&rdquo; that almost succeeded is ludicrous.<\/p>\n<p>If <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/ex-fbi-agent-drops-bomb-jan-6-film-fbi-execs-get-paid-arrest-terrorists-set\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the FBI<\/a> or any of its agents knowingly took part in the politicization of that day, America needs to know. 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A CNN report from Tuesday revealed that FBI officials complied with an administration request after receiving a memo titled &#8220;Terminations&#8221; on Friday. This memo, issued by acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove, mandated that FBI officials submit these details by noon on Tuesday or risk termination. Bove had previously overseen the dismissal of eight senior FBI staff members. The strategy proved effective: over 5,000 employee details were submitted, including ID numbers and job titles related to their roles in the January 6 investigations\u2014though names were not included. <\/p>\n<p>The situation has led to a lawsuit from FBI employees against the DOJ for allegedly violating their constitutional rights and federal privacy laws by framing this demand as part of a &#8220;purge.&#8221; The survey required agents to disclose whether they had testified before grand juries or trials and what specific roles they played in relation to January 6. The lawsuit seeks an injunction against releasing their information or survey responses.<\/p>\n<p>The plaintiffs argue that compiling lists of those who worked on matters concerning Donald Trump is retaliatory and aims to intimidate them into silence regarding any future misconduct by Trump or his associates. However, Kash Patel, nominated as FBI director, stated during Senate testimony that agents would not face retaliation for their involvement in January 6 but would undergo a review process\u2014aligning with Bove&#8217;s request for information.<\/p>\n<p>Despite this assurance, many agents fear job loss and potential violence from Trump supporters if their identities are disclosed; one employee expressed concerns about simply answering the survey due to fears for personal safety.<\/p>\n<p>While it is wrong for political retribution based solely on participation in an investigation to occur\u2014and neither surveys nor gathered information should be used solely for dismissals\u2014it\u2019s also clear that the FBI&#8217;s response was disproportionate given what transpired during January 6: it was not an &#8220;insurrection,&#8221; but rather chaotic behavior at a poorly secured site. Any criminal actions should be investigated appropriately without exaggerating events as threats against democracy.<\/p>\n<p>If any FBI personnel engaged in politicizing those events knowingly, it is crucial for America to be informed; thus far this move appears positive toward transparency<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2399119,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/FBI-.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[7076,49854,5591,40785,36978],"class_list":["post-2399118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-doj","tag-employee-details","tag-fbi","tag-federal-investigations","tag-january-6"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/FBI-.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2399118","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2399118"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2399118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2399122,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2399118\/revisions\/2399122"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2399119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2399118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2399118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2399118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}