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FBI employees and the Ministry of Justice agreed to an order from the court on Friday which prohibited the Doj from publishing a list of FBI employees who worked in the business of January 6 – including that against Donald Trump – publicly , at the White House or any other government agency without two days notice.
The agreement is the last of a series of debates on how to protect more than 5,000 information on FBI employees – collected within the framework of an investigation and sent to the Directorate of the Ministry of Justice – of the flight to the public.
Several FBI employees, as well as the agency’s union, continued, saying that they feared their security if their identity was made public. Employees specifically feared that the list was not given to the White House or Doge, which, according to them, has raised the probability that the names become public.
The consent order on Friday, the signed district judge, Jia Mr. Cobb, was joined one day after the FBI provided the names of the employees to the Ministry of Justice through a classified system to protect the employees against public identification.
“The government will not distribute the list in question in these consolidated cases (and all the subsequent versions of this list, including any registration combining unique identifiers on the list with names) to the public, directly or indirectly, before the court Survey the complainants on the complainants “the requests provided for a preliminary injunction”, indicates the order.
“In the absence of another court order, the government may terminate the proscription … During its elections by providing an opinion of two working days to the parties and in the court to terminate,” said the consent order .
COBB had initially resisted the institute of a temporary ban prescription because employees were only identified in the survey and the employee identification number, which suggests that the parties examine if they should Allow the Ministry of Justice to postpone the list with two days notice.
But Thursday evening, after a full day of hearings on the issue, the FBI management declared in a memo obtained by CNN that he had respected the request of the Ministry of Justice to submit the names.
Both in the memos and in court hearings, the Ministry of Justice argued that the ministry did not intend to publicly publish the list. The acting director of the FBI, Brian Driscoll, told an email to the office staff on Thursday that management “reiterated our concerns for the safety of our staff once again, and the risks posed to you and your families if these lists become public. ”