
A group of nine FBI agents asked a federal judge on Tuesday to block the Trump administration’s efforts to collect information on thousands of case agents across the country who worked on investigations tied to the President Donald Trump or the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
Attorneys for the agents, who filed suit anonymously in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, said any effort to use that information as a basis to fire FBI employees would be unlawful, retaliatory and violation of civil service protections.
They also raised concerns that administration officials might make public the names of agents involved in the Jan. 6 cases, “placing themselves in their families in immediate danger of retribution by the now pardoned and at-large Jan. 6 convicted felons.”