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The Department of Justice (DOJ) said that it would not be addressed to FBI employees who “simply followed the orders and exercised their functions ethically”, as it reviews the role of all agents involved in the investigation of the more than 1,500 riots in the chapter in Jan 6, 2021.
An email to all FBI agents with the clarification occurs when the acting Attached Attorney General, Emil Bove, a former President Trump’s personal criminal defense lawyer, said he would eliminate those who “Armen” the department. and they follow and follow A great purge of FBI staff.
Last week, Bove demanded that the current FBI leadership send a list of all agents who worked in the case of January 6, pointing to an executive order of weapons that Trump signed on the first day of his return to the White house.
Bove received the boost from the acting director of the FBI, Brian Driscoll, who said that the request for information on those who worked on January 6 would affect thousands of employees.
“Allow -clear: no FBI employee who simply followed the orders and who performed his functions ethically regarding January 6 research, is at risk of ending or other penalties. The only individuals than They should be worried about the process started by my note of January 31, 2025, are those that acted with a corrupt or partisan intention, which blatantly challenged the leadership orders of the Department or who had exerted discretion in the weapon of the weapon The FBI, “Bove wrote to The Hill reviewed on Wednesday.
Bove complained about his directive to the FBI leadership, which was called “insubordination”, which promoted a survey sent to all FBI employees asking them to detail what actions they did in the case of January 6. .
“In view of the refusal of the acting leadership to fulfill the narrowest application, the written directive aimed to obtain a complete data set that the Department of Justice can do reliably to the main team that will be The focus of the weapon review by virtue of the executive order. Determine if additional staff actions are needed, “Bove wrote.
Late. Mark Warner (D-VA.) shared a note of January 31 De Bove, which led the first five leadership positions in the department, as well as the heads of various field offices.
The note directly links this decision to the role that the FBI played in both Trump’s criminal cases.
“The FBI, including the previous leadership of the office, took an active part in what President Trump adequately described as” a serious national injustice that has been perpetrated in the North -American people for the last four years, “he wrote Bove in this note.
Bove then repeated a line used in other emails firing the FBI staff and the Department of Justice, who said he did not believe that he could be trusted to “faithfully” implement the Trump’s agenda.
It Agents asked the agents To define their roles in the case of January 6, asking, if they were surveillance, they collected evidence, arrested people, or testified in court.
The FBI and the Department of Justicehave been demandedTo block the dissemination of the survey results, the dresses that cite that agents could face the “watchful justice”.
“The purpose of this list is to identify the agents who end or suffer from other adverse work actions”, a demand filed in the name Again agents says, calling -an illegal action and retaliation.
“The plaintiffs reasonably fear that all or parts of this list may be published by President Trump’s allies, thus positioning themselves and their immediate remuneration families of the now forgiven and adults of January 6.”
Updated at 14:24 est
