by WorldTribune Staff, February 6, 2025 Real World News
After initial resistance, the FBI has decided to comply with the Trump Department of Justice’s order to turn over data on employees who were assigned to J6 investigations.
“Some of the executives had already begun advising agents to refuse to answer a mandatory interrogatory from the DOJ, in effect counseling insubordination,” HotAir’s Ed Morrissey noted in a Feb. 4 report.
The FBI’s legal team reportedly advised that stonewalling was not a wise approach.
NBC News reported: “Among the options under consideration was to send only the names of managers and senior executives. But the FBI’s office of general counsel decided that the demand by the Trump Justice Department for all the names was legal and that compliance was not optional.”
By Tuesday, the FBI had coughed up the names of some 5,000 employees who were assigned to J6 cases. That represents a staggering 13% of the bureau’s workforce.
The Associated Press reported that although the FBI turned over details of the approximately 5,000 employees involved in J6 investigations, it identified them only through their unique identifier code.
President Donald Trump has already fired eight top FBI officials and ousted roughly 30 prosecutors who worked on the team of special counsel Jack Smith.
The Trump administration’s efforts to obtain the names sparked fears of a mass firing at the bureau.
Acting Director Brian Driscoll told employees in a message last weekend that FBI agents cannot be fired or disciplined without hearings and other due process.
James Dennehy, the head of the FBI’s New York field office, went even further in an email to staff members challenging the Trump administration: “Today, we find ourselves in the middle of a battle … as good people are being walked out of the FBI. And others are being targeted because they did their jobs in accordance with the law and FBI policy.”
Morrissey noted: “It doesn’t matter why they want the data. The leadership of the DOJ and the FBI have the authority to request and review personnel assignments and deployments. If the result is mass firings, those could be litigated separately.
“However, any claim that the DOJ leadership has no right to review personnel assignments and deployments by a subordinate agency is breathtakingly arrogant, though, especially for a law enforcement agency. Oversight on policing by civilian leadership is a core value at all levels of the justice system.”
The real problem, Morrissey added, is that the FBI personnel assigned to chase down J6 protesters “took attention away from actual nat-sec priorities, as well as child abuse, human trafficking, and other serious public-safety issues.”
Bove said he sought to compile the data and use to to compare FBI deployments on these other issues to hold that leadership accountable for their judgment and priorities.
Timely: Defund Fake News
The American Free Press is Back!
On 2nd thought: FBI complied with DOJ order to turn over J6 personnel data; Results are shocking added by Editor Two on
View all posts by Editor Two →