FBI agents sue Trump DOJ to block any public identification of employees who worked on Jan. 6 investigations

A radical of 9 FBI agents filed a suit Tuesday seeking to artifact the nationalist recognition of immoderate FBI employees who worked connected the Jan. 6 investigations into the U.S. Capitol riots, successful an effort to caput disconnected what they described arsenic perchance retaliatory efforts against unit progressive successful the probe.

The plaintiffs, who filed the suit anonymously successful the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, said that immoderate effort to reappraisal oregon discriminate against FBI employees progressive successful the Jan. 6 investigations would beryllium "unlawful and retaliatory," and a usurpation of civilian work protections nether national law.

The suit cited the questionnaire employees were required to capable retired detailing their circumstantial relation successful the Jan. 6 probe and Mar-a-Lago probe led by erstwhile peculiar counsel Jack Smith.

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FBI agents person filed a suit to artifact the nationalist recognition of immoderate employees who worked the Jan. 6 cases.  (Getty Images)

"Some Plaintiffs were required to capable retired the survey themselves, others were told that their supervisors would beryllium filling retired the form," the suit noted, adding that the employees "were informed that the aggregated accusation is going to beryllium forwarded to precocious management."

"Plaintiffs asseverate that the intent for this database is to place agents to beryllium terminated oregon to endure different adverse employment action. Plaintiffs reasonably fearfulness that each oregon parts of this database mightiness beryllium published by allies of President Trump, frankincense placing themselves and their families successful contiguous information of retribution by the present pardoned and at-large Jan. 6 convicted felons."

President Donald Trump declined to reply questions connected Monday implicit whether his medication would region FBI employees progressive successful the probe into the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol riot, telling reporters lone that helium believes the bureau is "corrupt" and that his nominee for FBI director, Kash Patel, volition "straighten it out."

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