FBI requests names of bureau employees who worked on Jan. 6 cases
By Kerry Picket - The Washington Times - Friday, January 31, 2025
The FBI is requesting a list of all its personnel involved in helping the Justice Department prosecute Jan. 6 cases.
The notice sent within the bureau Friday asked for the names of all agents and supervisors across the country involved in investigating and helping to prosecute people who breached the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
The Domestic Threat Operations Center is requesting the names from all the field offices. The FBI declined to comment.
Reaction at the bureau is panic, because a wave of terminations at the agency occurred on Thursday. FBI personnel are not sure about the extent of the order, and whether it applies to every FBI employee who ever came across a Jan. 6 case in some way, according to agency sources.
The Washington Times learned that hundreds of names are currently on the growing list.
The request for the list came one day after FBI employees were terminated or forced to quit within hours of FBI director nominee Kash Patel’s testimony at his confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
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Sources say FBI Acting Director Brian Driscoll, a veteran agent whom President Trump appointed to lead the agency until Mr. Patel is confirmed and sworn in, did not approve of the planned mass terminations.
Mr. Trump, who pardoned more than 1,500 Jan. 6 defendants on Jan. 20, the day he was sworn into office, has at times referred to those who were incarcerated as “political hostages,” saying they were unfairly treated by the Justice Department.
At least 20 FBI executive assistant directors, assistant directors and special agents in charge from throughout the U.S. were forced out of the agency on Thursday, according to sources. Field offices where top officials lost their posts included Miami, New Orleans, Las Vegas and Washington, D.C.
The Washington Times also learned that squads of FBI agents were walked out from field offices located in New York, Washington, D.C. and Miami. Agents who were walked out of the Miami office were involved in the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case.
Following Thursday’s hearing, Mr. Patel, who sparred with the Senate’s Democrats, appeared on a glide path to confirmation.
Democrats on the Judiciary Committee pressed Mr. Patel to respond to recent Justice Department firings and asked if he was aware of any plans to punish FBI agents or personnel associated with past investigations targeting the president.
The acting attorney general fired more than a dozen Justice Department officials who worked on federal criminal investigations into Mr. Trump.
Mr. Patel said he was not involved with any recent firings at the Justice Department and he was not aware of any proposals to punish FBI agents or personnel associated with previous Trump investigations.
Mr. Trump was asked about the Justice Department firings on Friday at a press conference.
“If they fired some people over there, that’s a good thing because they were very bad,” the president said. “They used the Justice Department to correct their political opponents, which in itself is illegal.”
When asked if he requested any action, Mr. Trump disputed that, saying, “No, but we have some very bad people over there. It was weaponized at a level that nobody’s ever seen before.”
The FBI Agents Association called the planned terminations “outrageous.”
“If true, these outrageous actions by acting officials are fundamentally at odds with the law enforcement objectives outlined by President Trump and his support for FBI Agents,” the association said in a statement. “Dismissing potentially hundreds of agents would severely weaken the Bureau’s ability to protect the country from national security and criminal threats and will ultimately risk setting up the Bureau and its new leadership for failure.”
Democratic lawmakers denounced Mr. Trump over the firings and planned firings.
“I am deeply concerned by the abrupt and arbitrary dismissal of several top FBI officials—career civil servants with decades of experience protecting our nation from crime, cyber threats and terrorism,” said Rep. Ami Bera of California. “These individuals were not political appointees, but seasoned professionals tasked with overseeing critical national security and criminal investigations.”
However, Mr. Trump selected Mr. Patel to overhaul the FBI, which Republicans have long said is rife with corruption and has been politicized against conservatives.
Mr. Patel, who has served in senior level adviser positions related to national security, said at his confirmation hearing that he planned to stop the “weaponization” of the FBI.
“There will be no politicization of the FBI. There will be no retributive actions,” he told the lawmakers.
* Kerry Picket can be reached at kpicket@washingtontimes.com.
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