McCarthyism 2025
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FBI officials have complied with demands to provide the Justice Department with details of thousands of employees who worked on investigations related to the January 6, 2021, US Capitol riot, according to people familiar with the situation.
The demand has caused consternation among FBI employees who fear it is meant to amass a list of personnel for possible termination by the Trump administration.
Acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove, in a Friday memo with the subject line “Terminations,” had given FBI officials a noon deadline Tuesday to submit the details of thousands of agents and analysts. Bove previously ordered the firing of eight senior FBI officials, including those who oversaw cyber, national security and criminal investigations.
More than 5,000 employee details were submitted, including employee ID numbers, job titles and their role in the January 6 investigations, sources said, but not their names. There are more than 13,000 agents and 38,000 total FBI employees.
Meanwhile, officials dispatched by Elon Musk have been seen at FBI headquarters.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/04/politics/fbi-employees-tuesday/index.html
From NBC news:
The lawsuit says they have been informed that some of their personal information has already been posted by Jan. 6 convicted felons on the dark web and are particularly concerned about further publication of their personal information.
