FBI agents sue Trump administration over Jan. 6 scrutiny and potential layoffs
A group of anonymous Federal Investigation Agency agents, on January 6, 2021, the Congress of the Capitol Riot investigation and other federal investigations related to President Trump are suing the federal government Planning of the Ministry of Justice According to the submission of the New Court, reviewing the labor force of the Federal Investigation Bureau and reviewing agents who may engage in sensitive investigations.
Agent is suing Ministry of Justice And his temporary person in charge, James McHenry, the agent of the agent, represents a collective lawsuit on behalf of all the Agents of the Federal Investigation Bureau. They asked federal judges to stop the names of agents who may face censorship publicly.
The lawsuit on Tuesday is the latest Salvo of the Federal Investigation Bureau’s professional employees and the leadership of the Ministry of Justice, and the potential changes of the Trump administration in the bureau.
On Sunday, more than 1,000 Federal Investigation Affairs Agents were required to fill in the questionnaires on January 6, and conducted investigations as part of the Ministry of Justice’s assessment of labor. On the first day of office, Mr. Trump Taken for granted On January 6, about 1,500 defendants were convicted.
On Friday, Emil Bove, Deputy Prosecutor of the Agent, ordered the Agency Director of the Federal Investigation Bureau Brian Driscoll to compile all the lists of employees of the current and former Federal Investigation Bureau Survey on January 6 The memorandum of news review of Columbia Broadcasting Corporation said: “Determine whether you need to take other personnel actions.”
At present, there is no signs that the Ministry of Justice may take any action on the compilation list. So far, a few senior professional officials have been fired, and the agent of senior documents is still at work.
Nine Federal Investigation Agency, who did not disclose a lawsuit on Tuesday,: “The purpose of this list is to determine the agent who wants to terminate or suffer other bad job lawsuits.”
Their lawyers asked for trial trials and wrote: Agent worried that “this list may be published by President Trump’s allies, which will cause themselves and his family to be in danger of retribution immediately.”
The Ministry of Justice did not immediately respond to the request of the comment.
McHenry recently instructed the U.S. prosecutor in Washington, DC, to dismiss certain prosecutors that have been sent to another memo on January 31st and were reviewed by CBS News. The decision mainly affects the case of the contract lawyer who temporarily sued the case from January 6, which is not subject to a new lawsuit.
Last week, eight senior executives of the headquarters of the Federal Investigation Agency and the heads of various on -site offices, including Washington Special Administrative Region (Washington Special Administrative Region), were forced to resign, retire or face termination.
Assistant Director of the Office of the New York Federal Investigation Bureau, James Dennehy, wrote in the memo of 1,200 agents and supporters: “Today, we find that we are in their own fighting because good people are walking Go out.
Personnel operations make Trump’s campaign well and can clean up the house in the Ministry of Justice. Shortly after taking office, the president signed an administrative order to undertake the “weapon of the federal government”.
Other lawyers and the Agent Association of the Federal Investigation Bureau also issued alarm on the recent employment behavior, and threatened to take other legal lawsuits.
On Tuesday, the Senate considers Mr. Kash Patel, the nominated by Mr. Trump, Driscoll, who was temporarily led by the Federal Investigation Bureau. Published a video He praised the labor force of the Federal Investigation Agency, but did not mention the turbulence that was ongoing.
Dristol said: “We will never pay attention to our mission: protect the American people and maintain the constitution. Because in the bureau, we focus on our work.”
