by Washington – A federal judge in Washington, DC, temporarily prevented the Ministry of Justice on Thursday that the Ministry of Justice has announced information about FBI agents who fear that they will be the target because of their work on matters in which President Trump and the attack of 6 January involved in the US Capitool involved are.
Judge Jia Cobb of the American district ordered that the Ministry of Justice did not possibly announce the List of FBI agents who were working on the investigation to everyone outside the department – who would include any other federal entity or external group, as well as public disclosure – until they arguments should give a temporary restrictive order on Friday that the FBI agents are not mentioned and the FBI Agents Association in a pair brought earlier this week.
Cobb’s decision comes after an hour -long hearing, in which the Ministry of Justice and the Lawyers discussed an order for the agents who were disclosing the possible disclosure of names of FBI staff members involved in the cases of 6 January, which was compiled by the office and was transferred and transferred the Ministry of Justice this week.
She said in her order: “The government stated that the information that goes in question in this case is not shared outside the Doj.”
The short handle remains in force until the two parties come together again for the continuation of the hearing or reach an agreement on the conditions of the order.
Cobb, who was sitting at the federal court in Washington in 2021 and was nominated for her seat by former President Biden, said during the hearing that if the list of names were to be released at night, FBI agents could be confronted with “considerable and Immediately danger. “
The challenge came from a memorandum Published by Acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove Last week that the FBI has instructed to provide lists of current and former staff that is assigned at any time to investigations and prosecutions with regard to the attack on the American Capitool.
The Department required the FBI to transfer the information on Tuesday, and the agency kept the deadline, the Ministry of Justice said. FBI acting director Brian Driscoll said in a message to the agency that the data that the employees provided identified by their unique employees -identification, the current title, title at the time of the investigation of 6 January, the office where they are currently assigned, role In the role in the role in the role in the role in the role in the role in the role in the role of research into prosecution and the date of the last activity with regard to the probes.
Mr. Trump has Nominated Kash PatelA narrow ally of the president, to lead the FBI, but the Senate has not yet voted on his confirmation.
A lawyer who represents the public FBI agents and employees said it would not transfer identification numbers for Driscoll’s numbers, the government would have a list of the names of agents who worked on January 6. The Ministry of Justice also has information Compiled via surveys Sent in certain FBI employees about their activities related to the investigation of 6 January, including the size of their roles, she warned.
“We are a step away from those names that are released,” said the lawyer, adding that it will be “irreparable” if they are announced.
The lawyer said that there are a main concern that the names of the FBI staff can be leaked to a third party or published by the Trump Government.
“Our argument is that the threat to national security is so extreme that we cannot risk it to happen first and then try to put it back together,” she said.
The lawyer noted that since Mr Trump returned to the White House, billionaire Elon Musk, through the Ministry of Government Efficiency of Doge van de Witte Huis, has made the names of other government employees public. She also said that some defendants of January 6 were Clementia granted by Mr. Trump Also suggested on social media that they would focus on FBI agents.
Mark Zaid, who represents some of the limited FBI employees, estimated that there are between 5,000 and 6,000 whose information has been transferred to the Ministry of Justice.
A lawyer from the Ministry of Justice, Jeremy Simon, went back and forth with Cobb about the language of a potential judicial order that would temporarily prohibit the Ministry of Justice without notification, the list of FBI agents who are bound to cases of 6 January to entities and people outside the department.
Asked if another government agency is planning to release that information, while the court regards a motion for a provisional order, Simon said he was unable to do representations about agencies outside the Ministry of Justice.
Simon also refused to permanently confirm that the names were not shared outside the Ministry of Justice and the judge said that there was no ‘official disclosure’.
The Ministry of Justice has argued in a court that it was looking for information about FBI employees who worked on January 6 to start an assessment process in combination with the executive Order of Mr Trump aimed at terminating what he mentions federal government.
Government lawyers argued on Thursday morning in a court that they found that no temporary limiting order would be implemented due to “speculation with future predictions of possible damage” – no actual damage in the eyes of the government – and the speculative of the FBI agents “conviction That the list of agents outside the department can be leaked.
In the meantime, Bove tried to conquer the concern that agents could be distributed on Wednesday on Wednesday into an e -mail that was distributed to the FBI on Wednesday and wrote that “no FBI employee who easily followed orders and performed their tasks in an ethical way with regard to The January 6 investigations run the risk of termination or other fines.
The deputy attorney -general, who served as a defense lawyer of Mr Trump, wrote that “the only individuals who should worry about the process initiated on January 31, 2025, are those who traded with corrupt or partisan intention, which is obvious Supervised department leadership, or who exercised discretion in arming the FBI “.
In their request for a temporarily limiting order, the FBI agents argued that the Ministry of Justice is planning to do “unfavorable employment actions” and to make the names and identities of the objectives public. One group of seven FBI agents and the FBI Agents Association said that disclosure would harm them, their colleagues and families, “everything but guarantee that they are confronted with threats of physical damage and emotional intimidation in violation of their first amendment and the right procedural rights. “
At their request, lawyers for the FBI agents wrote that the Ministry of Justice is trying to take revenge against them by making their identity public “simply because those individuals have honorably perform their duties in connection with sensitive law enforcement investigations.”
“Such actions are unconsciously, dangerous to the American public and illegal under the American constitution and countless federal laws,” they wrote.
But lawyers from the Ministry of Justice said that the agents’ request is based on “speculation with future predictions of possible damage with regard to the information provided.”
“The claimants can indicate nothing that suggests that the government intends to make the list public in this case,” they wrote in an application. “On the contrary, the department and the FBI management have repeatedly emphasized that the goal of the list is to perform an internal assessment, not to expose special agents to public insult or spot.”
