(CNN) – The FBI has provided the Department of Justice with the names of employees who worked in the case related to January 6 following a new request from the acting assistant attorney general, and has been working among the department’s leaders for a week. We concluded with a back and forth. Protects agent and staff identities and protects departments.
The FBI complied with providing names through a system classified to protect employees from being publicly identified.
“For now, I would like to make it clear that there is no information indicating that the Department of Justice intends to publicly spread these lists. They are fully aware of the risks inherent in doing so. “We’re doing that,” Driscoll wrote in an email.
“If we learn the department’s intentions regarding changes to these lists, we’ll let you know immediately,” he said.
The Justice Department’s request on Thursday came after the department withdrew the names of thousands of employees earlier this week and relayed information based solely on the employee’s ID number, according to an email obtained by CNN instead. I was done.
Over the past few days, the leadership of the FBI and Justice Department has been moving back and forth about how to protect information collected as part of a review of the January 6 investigation, including President Donald Trump. On Tuesday, the FBI handed over information on more than 5,000 employees, including employee ID numbers, job titles and roles in the January 6 survey, but not by their name.
In the memo, Deputy Assistant Attorney General Emil Bove said that no information has been collected to retaliate against agents who worked on the investigation, saying, “The only thing that worries me about the process that began on January 31, 2025. Individuals, the memos are those. They acted with corrupt or partisan intentions, blatantly refusing orders from departmental leadership, or exercised discretion to weaponizing the FBI.”
Bove Wednesday accused the FBI leadership of “disobedience” by refusing to identify the “core team” of the department’s employees who worked on the investigation. He did not rule out the possibility of consequences including termination or other penalties, but it was the first time the department had shown that agents were not fired in large numbers.
Still, several FBI employees, along with the agency’s union, appealed to the Department of Justice to cover information collection and asked the judge not to make their names public outside the DOJ. The lawsuit stated that employees feared safety if their identity was made public.
Driscoll said in an email Thursday that the FBI leadership “has been repeated once again of concerns about the safety of our staff and the risks posed to you and your family if these lists were published.” I stated.
The Justice Department pushed back these concerns early in the day during court hearings. DOJ lawyer Jeremy Simon told the judge that “there was no official disclosure outside the department,” but acknowledged that other government officials could access the list through “unofficial” means. Ta.
