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Another section of the federal bureaucracy has resigned itself to Trump’s overwhelming win. The FBI will be turning over all paperwork regarding the roughly 5,000 agents involved in Jan. 6 cases. Trump has the power to fire people from their jobs so when he sent notice of this with the subject “Termination” they coughed it up. That notice came from Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove with a deadline.
Trump cornered the FBI
Officials have until noon Tuesday to submit information or be terminated. Bove has been involved in terminating eight other senior FBI workers. The tactic worked since Trump is not just empty threats.
CNN said, “More than 5,000 employee details were submitted, including employee ID numbers, job titles and their role in the January 6 investigations, sources said, but not their names. There are more than 13,000 agents and 38,000 total FBI employees.”
Lawsuit brewing
Not surprisingly, there’s already a lawsuit in the works to try to slow Trump down. It accuses the DOJ of violating their Constitutional rights and federal privacy laws. As part of a “purge” it also requires employees to fill out a survey telling of their involvement in the investigation.
Among the survey questions are whether they testified at trials, executed arrests, or had specific roles in Jan. 6 investigations. The lawsuit demands that a judge block the release and the survey. The suit sniffed, “The very act of compiling lists of persons who worked on matters that upset Donald Trump is retaliatory in nature, intended to intimidate FBI agents and other personnel, and to discourage them from reporting any future malfeasance and by Donald Trump and his agents.”
FBI Director nominee Kash Patel
Patel said this was more about information, not necessarily retribution. Bove’s request seems to agree with that. Patel said, “I think if anyone commits a wrong in government service, the American public deserve to know every absolute detail of that corrupt activity.”
Knowing Trump wasn’t happy with much of government spurred their fears they’d be terminated plus they feared having Trump supporters come after them.
“Plaintiffs reasonably fear that all or parts of this list might be published by allies of President Trump, thus placing themselves and their families in immediate danger of retribution by the now pardoned and at-large Jan. 6 convicted felons.”
