FBI executives contemplated that the Department of Resistant Justice requires that they deliver the names of the FBI staff involved in riot cases of the Capitol, but finally decided that they must comply with what the lawyers considered a legal order, they told NBC News, current and current previous FBI officials.
Among the options under consideration was to send only the names of managers and senior executives. But the FBI general advisor office decided that the Trump Department of Justice demand for all names was legal and that compliance was not optional.
The FBI agents association, a group that represents the agents and former FBI director William Webster sent a protest letter to the leaders of the Congress condemning the elimination of eight senior FBI officials on Friday.
“These actions, which lack transparency and due process, are creating dangerous distractions,” says La Letter, “relieve ongoing investigations and undermine the office of the office to work with state, local and international partners for the United States to return to Be safe. ”
A group that represents former FBI agents, the company of retired special agents, urged its members to call its elected officials to protest against the potential punishment or dismissal of the agents of the case of January 6.
“These employees were assigned to investigate these cases as part of their normal duties,” the message said. “They put their lives at stake every day to protect this country and now the entire FBI workforce is distracted from their important responsibilities.”
Democrats in the Senate Judicial Committee demanded responses from the Trump Administration Department and FBI officials about recent shots and reallocations of senior officials in both agencies for the application of the law, qualifying it as “an alarming threat to security national”.
In letters to the incoming attorney attorney, PAM Bondi, and others appointed of Top Trump obtained exclusively by NBC News, Dick Durbin de Illinois and other Democrats in the Judicial Committee of the Senate demanded records related to the personnel actions of the second Trump administration.
Democratic senators said that up to 20 lawyers from the Senior career department had been reallocated or eliminated, and noticed the layoffs of at least eight FBI managers. The letter said that there was a generalized fear that a massive purge of FBI agents who worked on disturbance investigations of the Capitol is in process.
“President Trump won the 2024 presidential elections,” said the letter. “But it does not have the authority to dismantle the federal civil service or replace the dedicated and non -partisan career officials in the Department of Justice with those whose only qualifications are loyalty to President Trump instead of the Constitution and Laws of the United States of America “
Only one of the 11 Republicans in the Judicial Committee responded to the requests for comments, Eric Schmitt of Missouri.
“President Trump received a mandate by the American people, and this past election was reduced to the reformers versus Washington Permanent,” he said in a statement. “President Trump is now doing exactly what he promised, that made the reforms in the agencies that desperately need it, including the FBI. I suggest that the Democrats walk with the bingo of outrage they are playing, will spend four years for them. ”
Democrats try to answer
Democrats are trying to respond to what has been a campaign of “shock and astonishment” of the Trump administration to impose new staff cuts and take control of federal agencies so that some experts say it can be illegal.
“As the United States faces a landscape of high threats, these shocking remains and reallocations deprive the DOJ and the FBI of experienced, senior leadership and decades of experience in the fight against violent crime, espionage and terrorism,” said the letter.
Minority Democrats lack the power to enforce their requests for documents or to block the confirmation of Kash Patel, Trump’s choice to be director of the FBI, who faces a vote of the committee next week. And the Republicans in the Committee have been silent about the events that are recently developed in the FBI.
Senator Chuck Grassley, Republican of Iowa, president of the Committee, did not respond to a request for comments and has not said anything publicly about what the current and previous officials of the FBI are calling a crisis in the FBI.
Patel declined to comment through a spokesman.
Patel told the senators at his confirmation audience on Thursday that he was not aware of the mass shooting plans. Hours later, it was learned that the Department of Justice had forced eight senior executives, including the chiefs of the field offices in Miami and Washington.
The Trump administration also began efforts to obtain the names of each FBI employee who worked on January 6, which caused fears of a mass shot that the office has traveled. The interim director Brian Driscoll told employees in a message during the weekend that FBI agents cannot be fired or disciplined without audiences and other due process.
James Dennehy, head of the New York Campo Office, went further in an email to staff members that challenges the Trump administration. “Today, we are in the midst of a battle … As good people are being outfits of the FBI,” he wrote. “And others are being attacked because they did their job according to the law and policy of the FBI.”
Overthroid prosecutors collect their belongings
Multiple federal prosecutors who were fired for their participation in the cases of January 6 returned to the United States Prosecutor’s Office for Washington, DC, Monday to leave their devices owned by the government and collect their belongings.
The interim American prosecutor of Washington, Edward Martin, declined answering questions when he left the building. Martin, a defender of “stopping the robbery” who was in the field of the Capitol on January 6, 2021, has disseminated the theories of conspiracy about the attack and has advocated by the accused of attack of the Capitol.
Shortly after Martin left, several of the federal prosecutors expelled left the building with their personal articles. The father of one of them gave him flowers.
Hired to assume the cases of January 6 and help address the great attack of the office attack of the office, prosecutors were in a state of trial when they were fired on Friday night.
None of them was accused of irregularities, but the text of their dismissal letters cited from Trump’s executive order forgiveness and displacing the rowing sentences. He described the prosecutions of January 6 as “a serious national injustice that has been perpetrated on the American people.”
