FBI agents sue DOJ over effort to identify employees involved in Trump investigations

*** Department of Justice Inspector General investigation has found that no undercover FBI agents were present at the January 6th, 2021 riot at the US Capitol and none of its informants were tasked with participating. The report knocks down *** fringe conspiracy theory advanced by some Republicans in Congress that the FBI played *** role in instigating the events of January 6th. That's when *** mob of Trump supporters angry about his 2020 election loss stormed the building in *** violent clash with police. The watchdog found that 26 FBI informants were in Washington for election related protests. That day four informants did enter the Capitol but none had been authorized by the Bureau to break the law or encourage others to do so. The Inspector General also found that the FBI should have done more to collect intelligence before the riot. Even though the bureau did prepare for the possibility of violence. The watchdog said the FBI failed to scour its 56 field offices across the country for relevant intelligence. This long awaited report wraps up *** lengthy investigation into *** day unlike any other in US history that has also yielded congressional inquiries and federal and state indictments.

FBI agents who participated in investigations related to President Donald Trump have sued over Justice Department efforts to develop a list of employees involved in those inquiries that they fear could be a precursor to mass firings.The class-action complaint, filed Tuesday in federal court in Washington, seeks an immediate halt to the Justice Development's plans to compile a list of investigators who participated in probes of the Jan. 6, 2021 riot at the U.S. Capitol as well as Trump's hoarding of classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate.The lawsuit notes that Trump on the campaign trail 바카라 게임 웹사이트�repeatedly stated that he would personify 바카라 게임 웹사이트�the vengeance바카라 게임 웹사이트� or 바카라 게임 웹사이트�the retribution,바카라 게임 웹사이트� for those whom he called 바카라 게임 웹사이트�political hostages,바카라 게임 웹사이트� for their actions during the Jan. 6 attack.바카라 게임 웹사이트�The agents contend 바카라 게임 웹사이트�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.바카라 게임 웹사이트�The complaint also cites the Justice Department's firing last week of prosecutors on special counsel Jack Smith's team as proof that the effort to compile the list is rooted in a desire for retribution.바카라 게임 웹사이트�Donald Trump has made repeated public pronouncements of his intent to exact revenge upon persons he perceives to be disloyal to him by simply executing their duties in investigating acts incited by him and persons loyal to him,바카라 게임 웹사이트� the complaint says. 바카라 게임 웹사이트�Whatever the Trump administration believes about Plaintiffs바카라 게임 웹사이트� political affiliation, it clearly believes that persons who were involved in the investigation and prosecution of Jan. 6 and Mar-a-Lago cases are insufficiently politically affiliated with Donald Trump to be entitled to retain their employment.바카라 게임 웹사이트�A Justice Department spokesman did not immediately return a message seeking comment.

WASHINGTON —

The class-action complaint, filed Tuesday in federal court in Washington, seeks an immediate halt to the Justice Development's plans to compile a list of investigators who participated in probes of the Jan. 6, 2021 riot at the U.S. Capitol as well as Trump's hoarding of classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate.

The lawsuit notes that Trump on the campaign trail 바카라 게임 웹사이트�repeatedly stated that he would personify 바카라 게임 웹사이트�the vengeance바카라 게임 웹사이트� or 바카라 게임 웹사이트�the retribution,바카라 게임 웹사이트� for those whom he called 바카라 게임 웹사이트�political hostages,바카라 게임 웹사이트� for their actions during the Jan. 6 attack.바카라 게임 웹사이트�

The agents contend 바카라 게임 웹사이트�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.바카라 게임 웹사이트�

The complaint also cites the Justice Department's firing last week of prosecutors on special counsel Jack Smith's team as proof that the effort to compile the list is rooted in a desire for retribution.

바카라 게임 웹사이트�Donald Trump has made repeated public pronouncements of his intent to exact revenge upon persons he perceives to be disloyal to him by simply executing their duties in investigating acts incited by him and persons loyal to him,바카라 게임 웹사이트� the complaint says. 바카라 게임 웹사이트�Whatever the Trump administration believes about Plaintiffs바카라 게임 웹사이트� political affiliation, it clearly believes that persons who were involved in the investigation and prosecution of Jan. 6 and Mar-a-Lago cases are insufficiently politically affiliated with Donald Trump to be entitled to retain their employment.바카라 게임 웹사이트�

A Justice Department spokesman did not immediately return a message seeking comment.

FBI agents sue DOJ over effort to identify employees involved in Trump investigations

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