In what is another massive victory for the administration of President Donald Trump, the FBI has acquiesced and given the names of every agent who was involved with the January 6 investigations to the Department of Justice.
The FBI gave the names of the agents via a classified system so that they would not be identified publicly, acting Director Brian Driscoll said in an email which was obtained by FBI whistleblower Garret O’Boyle.
“I want to be clear that as of now, we do not have information indicating the Department of Justice intends to disseminate these lists publicly, and they are fully aware of the risks we believe are inherent in doing so,” Driscoll wrote in the email, CNNreported.
“We will let you know immediately if we learn the Department’s intentions regarding these lists changes,” the acting director added.
CNN noted further, “The Justice Department’s Thursday demand comes after the bureau earlier this week withheld the names of thousands of employees and instead relayed information based only on employee ID numbers, according to an email obtained by CNN.”
“Over the past several days, FBI and Justice Department leadership have gone back-and-forth over how to protect the information gathered as part of a review of January 6-related investigations, including the one into President Donald Trump. On Tuesday, the FBI handed over information on more than 5,000 employees, including employee ID numbers, job titles and their role in the January 6 investigations – but not their names,” the outlet’s report added.
But O’Boyle said that the cooperation for the FBI came too late when he spoke to The Daily Caller.
“The FBI should’ve handed over the names when they were first asked,” the whistleblower said. “They knew the request of information was legal, yet they failed to comply. When they did finally comply, they only provided employee identification numbers, and not the names that DOJ requested.”
“Now, the FBI ‘leadership’ has finally complied with what originally was a simple, legal request by their governing department,” he said.
FBI agents who did not do anything unethical during their investigation into January 6 will not be disciplined or fired, Acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove said in a memo on Wednesday.
“Let me be clear: No FBI employee who simply followed orders and carried out their duties in an ethical manner with respect to January 6 investigations is at risk of termination or other penalties,” the acting director also said in the email.
As the FBI begins to undergo changes, some Republicans believe that it is elected Democrats, not the agents, who should be terrified.
Tennessee Republican Sen. Marsha Blackburn said during an interview with Fox News that the biggest reason Democrats like Sen. Adam Schiff of California and others “fear” Trump nominee Kash Patel to lead the FBI is because he knows their roles in perpetuating the “Russian collusion” hoax during the president’s first term.
“I think, too they are very fearful of Kash Patel because Kash Patel knows what Adam Schiff and some of the others did with Russia collusion, and they know that he — knows the dirt on them, if you will, and I think they’re fearful of what he’s going to do and what he’s going to reveal and what he’s going to make known to the American people,” Blackburn told guest host Charlie Hurt on “Fox & Friends” Sunday.
“And they recognize that one thing Kash Patel is very devoted to is bringing transparency to what’s going on in Washington,” Hurt replied, which drew agreement from Blackburn.
“[RFK Jr.] is going to help us find these 300,000 children,” Blackburn continued, regarding illegal migrant kids who reportedly went missing under the Biden-Harris regime.
“I’ve been trying to find these kids since it was 75,000, and the Biden Administration has never responded to where these children are. RFK is going to get in there. He’s going to rework CMS with Dr. [Mehmet] Oz. He is going to work with [Dr.] Marty Makary to straighten out the FDA. He’s going to work with Dr. [Jay] Bhattacharyaat NIH,” Blackburn added.
