FBI agents continue to protect the identities of January 6 agents while Trump officials pursue them

By Sarah N. Lynch and Andrew Goudsward

Washington (Reuters) – Two distinct groups of FBI employees continued the United States Ministry of Justice on Tuesday, seeking to protect the identity of these agents and others who investigated Donald Trump supporters for having stormed The American Capitol on January 6, 2021.

Participants in the riots who were forgiven by Trump on his first day of power went to social networks to identify the prosecutors and agents who worked on their business. Trump pardoned about 1,500 hours of hours after taking office on January 20.

The two proceedings against the Ministry of Justice were both filed before a deadline at 3 p.m. imposed by the acting deputy prosecutor Emil Bove, ordering the FBI management to put a list of each FBI employee who helped to the January 6 investigation.

The acting director of the FBI, Brian Driscoll, told staff that the list would include thousands of employees, including himself.

A person familiar with the case said that the FBI had delivered the list, which identifies the persons involved in the cases of January 6 by employee identification number, not by name. It was not clear what the Ministry of Justice planned to do it, and a spokesperson for the Doj did not immediately respond to a request for comments.

In the first collective appeal, a group of anonymous employees of the FBI said that the Ministry of Justice was trying to identify the agents to dismiss or punish otherwise.

“The complainants fear reasonably that all the parties of this list be published by Allies of President Trump, thus posing themselves and their families in immediate danger of compensation by criminals now condemned Pardoned and in general on January 6,” said The trial.

The second trial, submitted by the FBI Association Agents, also asked the court to protect the identities of the employees.

About 140 police officers were attacked during the attack, some vaporized with chemical irritants and other pipes, posts and other weapons.

A spokesman for the Ministry of Justice did not immediately respond to a comment request.

Friday, Bove dismissed eight senior FBI officials and around 17 prosecutors who worked on criminal cases linked to the January 6 attack.

The interim prosecutor general, James Mchenry, dismissed more than a dozen federal prosecutors who have worked on the two criminal cases now dissected by the special Jack Smith against Trump for his retainement of classified documents and his efforts to overthrow results of the 2020 presidential election.

According to the trial, up to 6,000 FBI employees participated in a certain way in the January 6 investigations.

During the weekend, FBI employees received a survey asking detailed questions on their role in the cases of January 6 with a deadline on Monday afternoon.

“I know that myself and the others receiving this questionnaire have a lot of questions and concerns, which I work hard to get answers,” wrote Chad Yarbrough, deputy director of the Criminal Investigation Division at FBI headquarters Reuters.

Among the rioters of January 6 to publish online, Shane Jenkins, who was sentenced to seven years in prison for having launched weapons to the police and broke a capitol window with a tomahawk.

“Here are my prosecutors. Make sure these people are dismissed!” Jenkins wrote and appointed the FBI agent in charge of his business as well as the judge.

Calls for compensation coincide with an increase in political threats and violence, including dozens of threatening and intimidating messages sent to judges and prosecutors in Trump’s legal trials.

Reuters has identified more than 300 cases of political violence during the four years since the attack on the Capitol on January 6, of which at least 25 deadly attacks claiming 46 victims.

(Report by Sarah N. Lynch and Andrew Goudsward; additional report by Pete Eisler and Ned Parker; Edition by Andy Sullivan, Howard Goller and Alistair Bell)