FBI agents sue DOJ over list of officials on Trump cases
Donald Trump at the Stop the Steal rally on Jan. 6.

President Donald Trump speaks to his supporters at Save America Rally on the Ellipse near the White House in Washington on January 6, 2021 Photo by Yuri Gripas/Abaca/Sipa USA(Sipa via AP Images).

A group of FBI agents who worked on the investigations into Donald Trump’s alleged unlawful removal and retention of classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago home and the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol are asking a federal judge to block the Justice Department from gathering information to identify and punish them at the behest of the president, according to a new lawsuit.

The class action lawsuit, brought Tuesday by nine anonymous agents in Washington, D.C., federal court, states that the administration’s attempt to “purge” the ranks of case agents at the bureau based on their assignments would be “unlawful and retaliatory” in violation of the Civil Service Reform Act. The suit names the Department of Justice and Acting U.S. Attorney General James McHenry as defendants.

“Plaintiffs assert that 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,” the filing states.

According to the 16-page complaint, the agents on Monday were directed to fill out surveys identifying the roles they played in the Mar-a-Lago and Jan. 6 cases, with the aggregated information being forwarded to “upper management” at the DOJ. The three-page survey was included as an exhibit in the filing and included 13 questions about the agents’ work.

“What was your/your employee’s title when you/your employee participated in investigation(s) or prosecution(s) of events that occurred at or near the US Capitol on January 6, 2021?” read one of the questions.

“What was your/your employee’s role in the investigation(s) or prosecution(s) relating to events that occurred at or near the US Capitol on January 6, 2021? Select all that apply,” read another.

The agents claim the survey is part of a directive issued by Trump instructing the DOJ to “conduct a review and purge” of FBI personnel involved in the aforementioned investigations and prosecutions, placing them in danger of losing their jobs or, worse, being targeted by any of the roughly 1,500 convicted rioters Trump went on to pardon his first day in office.

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