The Justice Department took sweeping actions Friday against FBI agents and prosecutors involved in investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riot by ordering firings and warning that thousands more could face “personnel action.”
President Donald Trump‘s acting deputy attorney general, Emil Bove, issued the directives, which sent shockwaves across the bureau just before the weekend. Bove ordered the FBI to dismiss eight executive-level officials and demanded a list of names by Tuesday of anyone else who had any interactions with the Jan. 6 investigation, according to an email.
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Multiple people confirmed to the Washington Examiner that FBI acting Director Brian Driscoll sent the email to the bureau, saying that such a list would include “thousands of employees across the country.”
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