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The vice-prosecutor general accused the management of the FBI of insubordination by refusing to identify a “basic team” of office employees who worked on the investigations of January 6, while trying to ensure that the agents basic which “simply followed orders” will not be dismissed unless they “act with a corrupt or partisan intention”, according to a copy of a note obtained by CNN.
The memo sent by email Wednesday by Vice-Procureur General Emil Bove has been the first time that the Ministry of Justice indicates that the thousands of agents who have worked on the surveys linked to January 6 will not be dismissed en masse.
However, Bove does not exclude that some could still face consequences, including termination or other penalties.
“Let me be clear: no FBI employees who simply followed orders and exercised their functions ethically with regard to the investigations of January 6 is threatened with dismissal or other penalties,” said the email.
“The only people who should be concerned with the process initiated by my memo of January 31, 2025 are those who acted with a corrupt or partisan intention, who definitively challenged the orders of the department of the department, or who exercised discretion in the ‘FBI armament, “added Bove.
Last week, Bove, who represented Trump his New York Criminal Hush Aftway criminal trial before being used to work at the Ministry of Justice, sent a memo to the FBI by asking them to provide information on all employees of Current and old office which “at any time” worked on the January 6 surveys. The message quickly became a point of discord and sparked two proceedings which aimed to prevent the Ministry of Justice from collecting or publishing one of the information they have collected, saying that his release would endanger FBI employees .
However, the Office given Details of more than 5,000 FBI agents and employees who worked on CNN surveys of January 6, 2021, CNN reported. These details included employee identification numbers, employment titles and their role in the January 6 surveys, sources said, but not their names.
Wednesday, the president of the FBI Agents Association, Natalie Bara, told Kaitlan Collins de CNN on “the source” that, although the attempted Bove to insure the agents was “a step in the right direction”, the group always needed “confirmation of what they planned to do with this.”
Bove approached the controversy in his email on Wednesday, saying: “There is no honor in continuous efforts to distort this simple truth or protect the guilty actors against the exams on these questions, which politicized the office, Has harm his credibility and distracted the public from the public the excellent work done every day.
By describing how the memo last week occurred, Bove said that he had asked FBI management “several times” to identify a “basic team” of office employees who had worked on the surveys of 6 January because the Ministry of Justice wanted to carry out a close examination of their work.
But, he said, the acting leadership of the FBI refused to comply with and led the Ministry of Justice to request scanning information from all the current and former employees who touched the Riot Capitol surveys .
“This insubordination required, among other things, the directive in my memo of January 31, 2025 to identify all the agents assigned to the surveys relating to January 6, 2021,” said Bove in the email. “Given the refusal of the acting leadership to comply with the narrower demand, the written directive was intended to obtain a full set of data that the Ministry of Justice can reliably assess the main team which will be at the center armament examination in accordance with the executive commands. ”
Since Trump was sworn in last month, the Ministry of Justice adopted an aggressive approach to expel employees or put aside that they have perceived as participating in the “armament” of the police. These measures involved license agents and prosecutors who worked on cases related to Trump and January 6.
The department’s management has also reassured at least 20 high -level career stations in the criminal division, as well as the national security division, which has been isolated in the past political winds and prosecutors working on international affairs, which manages extractions and immigration is important.
This story has been updated with additional details.
Piper Hudspeth Blackburn of CNN contributed to this report.