FBI Agents Who Probed Jan. 6 Score Big In Bid To Stay Safe
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The agents worry that Trump darling Elon Musk and others may target them.
FBI agents who investigated Jan. 6 and President Donald Trump’s now-dismissed classified documents case have reached a delicate agreement on how to stop the immediate public release of their identifying information.
The ruling from U.S. District Judge Jia Cobb is a brief victory for a group of FBI employees who sued the Justice Department only days ago, alleging violations of their First and Fifth Amendment rights. The agents also said they were fearful of retaliation after acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove demanded a list and surveys of agents or personnel who worked on Jan. 6 cases.
The list contained titles and assignment details tied to the 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol and other Trump-related cases. Bove, who served as Trump’s personal lawyer in his criminal hush-money case, defended the request by pointing to Trump’s executive order purporting to end the “weaponization” of government.
However, attorneys representing the FBI agents said the information gathering was “politically motivated.”
The lawyers argued that the list Bove is compiling is being used to unlawfully purge at least 6,000 staff from the FBI’s ranks. They told Judge Cobb on Thursday that agents were profoundly worried about their and their families’ safety should the information be leaked or somehow made public without redactions — or if the information “makes its way to Mr. [Elon] Musk,” Norm Eisen, one attorney representing the agents, told the judge.
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