Trump purge at Justice Department of January 6 prosecutors and threat to FBI agents | US Capitol attack
The Trump administration launched a group of prosecutors at the Ministry of Justice participating in criminal cases on January 6 and demanded the names FBI agents concerned In these same investigations, it can be expelled.
A person familiar with a matter that spoke on condition of anonymity was not disclosed because about twenty employees of the US Prosecutor’s Office in Washington late on Friday.
The Acting Deputy Prosecutor, Emile Bouv, who is appointed by Trump, ordered the shooting, according to a memorandum obtained by the Associated Press; In a separate note, it identified more than half of the VIPs at the FBI ordered or shooting by Monday.
On Friday, Pov also requested the names, titles and offices of all FBI employees who worked in the investigations on January 6, 2021 in Capitol Riot – a list that the office manager said that the number could be elevated in the thousands.
This comes after Trump’s sweeping work has benefited for more than 1500 accused and/or convicted of them American Capitol attack.
Bouv, who defended Trump in his criminal cases before joining the administration, said that the officials of the Ministry of Justice will then conduct a “review process to determine whether any additional procedures for employees are necessary.”
“As we said from the moment we agreed to take over these roles, we will follow the law, and we follow the FBI policy and do what is in the interest of the workforce and the American people – always,” Acting FBI director, Brian Drichol, wrote in a letter to the workforce.
The public prosecutors who were launched at the US Public Prosecutor’s Office in the capital were appointed for temporary tasks to support January 6 cases, but they were transferred to permanent roles after Trump’s presidential victory in November, according to the A Associated Press note. Pova, the deputy prosecutor of the Acting, said that he will not “tolerate the subversive employee procedures by the previous administration.”
Any collective launch in the FBI will be a major blow to the historical independence of the White House of the leading federal law enforcement agency in the country, but it will be compatible with Trump’s continued determination to bend a law enforcement community and the intelligence community to his will. It will be part of the amazing pattern of revenge launched by federal government employees, following the forced residence of a group of senior executives of the Federal Investigation Office earlier this week, as well as a wide end of the Ministry of Justice in the special lawyer Jack Smith, who achieved Trump.
The FBI agent said that the reported efforts that were reported to the agents represent “heinous acts by the agency’s officials” that were “mainly at the basis of the law enforcement targets set by President Trump and his support for the FBI agents.”
“The rejection of hundreds of agents will strongly weaken the office’s ability to protect the country from national security and criminal threats and will eventually risk establishing the office and its new leadership of failure,” the association said in a statement.
When he was pressured during the confirmation session on Thursday, Cash Patel told the FBI director that he was not aware of any plans to finish or punish the FBI employees who participated in Trump’s investigations. Patel said that if it was confirmed that he would follow the internal reviews of the Federal Investigation Office to take action against employees.
In response to a question from the Democratic Senator Corrie Booker whether it will reflect any decisions before his confirmation that did not follow this standard process, Patel said: “I do not know what is going on now there, but I am committed to you, Senator, and your colleagues, I will honor the legal procedures due to the FBI. “
Before his candidacy to occupy the position of the director, Patel noticed at least one podcast about what he called the “conspirators” against Trump in the government and the media, which he said needed to get rid of.
For years, Trump has expressed anger at the FBI and the Ministry of Justice the investigations that led to his presidency, including an investigation into relations between Russia and his campaign for 2016, and continued over the past four years. One of the directors of the Federal Investigation Office launched James Comey, amid the investigation into Russia, and then his second place, Christopher Ray, just weeks after his victory in November.
When he was asked in the White House on Friday about whether he had any relationship to auditing the agents, he said: “No, but we have some bad people there. He was armed at an unprecedented level before. They came after many people – like me – but they came After many people.
He added: “If they fired some people there, this is a good thing, because they were very bad.”
The FBI and Smith team investigated Trump because of its efforts to cancel the 2020 presidential elections and store the documents classified in its property in Mar-A-Lago in Florida. Both cases resulted in the accusation regulations that were withdrawn after Trump’s presidential victory in November due to the long -term policy of the Ministry of Justice prohibiting the federal prosecution of the head of sitting.
The Ministry of Justice has also accused more than 1500 Trump supporters regarding riots in Capitol, although Trump is on his first day in his position gave them all – including those who were convicted of violent crimes – through pardon, transferring the ruling, and rejecting the circles .
This week, the Ministry of Justice launched more than ten public prosecutors who worked in Smith’s investigations, and a group of senior executives at the FBI- including many managers and executives responsible for field offices in the large city- have been informed- or is launched a day Monday.
With Associated Press
