FBI agents sue Trump DoJ over effort to target January 6 investigation workers
by Hugo Lowell from US news | The Guardian on (#6V20J)
Agents say bid to compile list of employees who worked on US Capitol attack cases could be precursor to mass firings
Two groups of unnamed FBI agents sued the justice department on Tuesday to block it from collecting information on thousands of agents and other employees who worked on the criminal investigations against Donald Trump and cases against January 6 US Capitol riot defendants.
The lawsuits came after Emil Bove, the acting deputy attorney general, ordered the FBI to compile and turn over a list of every agent who worked on those cases and their roles, which would then be reviewed for personnel decisions.
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