FBI employees and outside groups are raising alarm over recent job terminations at the bureau and the prospect of many more as personnel wait to find out how the Justice Department plans to address thousands in the FBI who worked on Jan. 6 cases.
Nine anonymous FBI employees resorted to litigation on Tuesday, filing a class action lawsuit against the DOJ alleging the department improperly asked them and many others to fill out a questionnaire about their involvement in the Jan. 6 investigations. The Trump administration will use the compiled information to fire people, the employees alleged, adding that all nine of them believe they will likely be fired this week.
“Plaintiffs assert that the specific purpose of this survey is to identify agents and other FBI personnel to be terminated as a form of politically motivated retribution,” the complaint read.
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