The Trump Justice Department is conducting a comprehensive investigation of the 5, 000 brokers who participated in the investigations and indictments on January 6 and are looking for proof that they “adopted with crooked or political purpose.”
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Emil Bove, the acting deputy attorney general, added that the evaluation was never intended as a witch hunt.
No FBI staff, who merely adhered to orders and performed their duties in an ethical manner with regard to the January 6 studies, is at risk of being fired or facing another sanctions, according to Bove, a member of the legal team defending Trump. The only people who should be concerned about the procedure that my January 31, 2025 note outlines are those who clearly defied office leadership’s directives or used discretion to arm the FBI.
The list of brokers who worked on January 6 cases contained information including “employee ID figures, but not their names, job titles and their role in the January 6 examinations” , , sources told CNN.
Bove made it clear that there were more serious issues at stake. There is no pride in the Bureau’s continued efforts to politicize the Bureau, harmed its legitimacy, and diverted the public from the excellent work being done every day.” There is no honor in the continuing efforts to alter that plain truth or protect criminal actors from scrutiny on these issues,” the statement reads.
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Bove claimed that he had asked FBI command to “remember the main group” of bureau employees “multiple times” because the Justice Department wanted to conduct a small review of their work in describing how the memo came about last week.
However, he claimed, the FBI acting administration refused to comply and prompted the Justice Department to obtain a comprehensive set of details from all current and former brokers or employees who had interacted with Capitol riot investigations.
” That disobedience necessitated, among other things, the order in my January 31, 2025 letter to determine all officials assigned to studies relating to January 6, 2021″, Bove says in the internet. The Justice Department wanted to have a full data collection that the acting leadership could confidently narrow down to the core group that will be the subject of the weaponization evaluation under the Executive Order in illumination of the acting government’s refusal to comply with the narrower demand.
Bove wanted the names of the” core team” of agents who drove the January 6 investigations. Brian J. Driscoll and his deputy, Robert C. Kissane, tapped to run the FBI until  , Trump’s nominee, Kash Patel, is confirmed, refused to turn over any names of the 5, 000 agents or the” core team” of agents most intimately involved in the January 6 prosecutions.
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The New York Times asks “why Mr. Bove did not fire the bureau’s acting leaders and why his original request was not in writing.”
Since this was his first government position, acting Deputy AG Bove was unfamiliar with how federal agencies operated. Unless orders that the employee doesn’t want to carry out are in writing, he doesn’t have to obey them and can’t be fired.
Bove should make the written instructions and then sack Kissane and Driscoll.  ,
