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The Justice Department on Friday agreed to keep the identities of the FBI officials involved in January 6 cases and Trump investigations hidden.
For now.
On Thursday, Judge Jia Cobb, a Biden appointee, ordered a pause on the release of the identities of the FBI employees involved in the witch hunts.
On Tuesday, two groups of FBI agents anonymously filed a lawsuit to block the Justice Department from accessing their names.
The plaintiffs sought a temporary restraining order to prevent the Justice Department from identifying the names of the FBI employees.
Lawyers for the plaintiffs argued publicly naming the employees would put people in danger.
The FBI officials who worked on the J6 cases and Trump investigations were identified by a case management system.
NBC reporter Ken Dilanian said that the list does not include names of the agents, rather, the agents were identified by a number called a “unique employee identifier.”
“The Justice Department, of course, can match the numbers with names on the payroll. But by leaving the names off, the FBI ensure that for now there is not a master list floating around of the names of people who worked on January 6th,” he said.
A person directly familiar with a matter tells NBC News the FBI has turned over to the Justice Department—as ordered—a list of thousands of agents and other personnel involved in January 6 cases.
But the person says the list does not include names. The agents were identified by…
— Ken Dilanian (@KenDilanianNBC) February 4, 2025
Judge Cobb paused the release of the names until the hearing resumed Friday morning.
After a hearing on Friday morning, the DOJ agreed to keep the names hidden for now.
Plaintiff lawyers may seek an preliminary injunction.
The judge set a schedule for plaintiffs’ anticipated motions for a preliminary injunction.
With about a half hour before the temp restraining order hearing was set to resume this afternoon, Judge Jia Cobb signs an order that is a compromise for now between DOJ and FBI employees related to public dissemination of a list of J6 agents and employees. pic.twitter.com/VIqMaue3Rv
— Julie Kelly (@julie_kelly2) February 7, 2025
CBS News reported:
The Justice Department said the federal government would not publicly release the names of FBI agents who worked on the now-closed investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, according to a court order filed Friday.
The Justice Department and a group of unnamed FBI agents reached an agreement in which the government said it would not disclose a list of the agents’ names that was compiled by the FBI and transmitted to the Justice Department on Tuesday unless there is two days’ notice given to the agents.
The two sides agreed to the order following a hearing Thursday as part of two cases filed by anonymous FBI agents and the FBI Agents Association earlier this week that sought to preemptively stop the Justice Department from publicizing the list of agents.
Natalie Bara, president of the FBI Agents Association, said the group welcomes the order, which allows them to return to court and challenge any planned disclosure of the agents’ and employees’ names.
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