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Acting Deputy Attorney General, under the leadership of the FBI, refused to identify the “basic team” of the bureau employees, accusing them of “Investment”, who worked in the January 6 investigation, while trying to assure it. They will not “obey orders”. According to a copy of the memo obtained by CNN, they should be fired until they “work with corrupt or discriminatory intentions.”
Acting Deputy Attorney General Emal Boo is the first time the memo emailed on Wednesday when the Department of Justice has indicated that thousands of agents working on the January 6 investigation will not be fired.
However, Boo did not deny that some could still face consequences, including suspension or other fines.
The email states that “Let me make it clear: An FBI employee who merely followed orders and performed his duties morally in connection with the January 6 investigation.”
Boo added, “Only those who are worried about the process launched by my January 31, 2025 memo, are the ones who worked with corrupt or discriminatory intentions, who have done the department. Clearly denied leadership orders, or who used discretion to surrender to the FBI. ”
Last week, Boo, who represented Trump to New York State’s criminal Hash Money trial before working in the Justice Department, sent a memo to the FBI in which he was instructed to all present and ex -exist Provide information about the bureau employees who worked on the “” “” “” at any time “at any time. This message became a point of conflict and it gave rise to two litigation, which aims to prevent the Department of Justice from collecting or releasing any information collected by them, saying that its release. FBI employees will be at risk.
CNN reported on Tuesday, yet, the bureau handed over the details of more than 5,000 FBI agents and employees who worked on an investigation on January 6, 2021, US Capital Riot, CNN Tuesday Tell Sources said the details included employees’ identity numbers, job titles and their role in the January 6 investigation, sources said, but not their names.
“There is no honor in the ongoing efforts to destroy this simple truth or protect the criminal actors from scrutinizing these issues, which brought the bureau into politics,” Booo said in his email on Wednesday. It has damaged its reputation, and has been done to the public every day. ”
Speaking about the memo last week, Boo said he asked the FBI leadership “several times” to identify a “core team” of bureau employees who worked in the January 6 investigation It was because the Justice Department wanted to take a narrow review of them. Task
But, he said, the FBI refused to comply with the acting leadership, and the Department of Justice requested a number of information from all current and former agents or employees who touched the capital riot investigation. Lead to do.
“In addition to this unknown, other things, in my memo of January 31, 2025, Booo said in an email,” said Boo. “In light of the refusal to comply with the acting leadership’s request, the purpose of the written directive was to get a complete data set from which the Department of Justice can go to the basic team reliably to be. Order will be the focus of weapons.
Since Trump was sworn in in the past month, the Department of Justice has taken an aggressive approach to advancing or moving employees to them as they understand as to participate in the “weapons” of law enforcement agencies. Yes. The measures included firing agents and prosecutors who worked on Trump and January 6 cases.
The leadership of the department has re -assigned at least 20 high -level, career positions in the criminal division as well as the National Security Division, which has been inspired by changing political winds in the past, and work on international issues. Prosecutors, who handle the delivery. And immigration matters.
This story has been updated with additional details.
