DOJ warned: dismissal of prosecutors, FBI agents involved on January 6 of May trigger legal actions

A group of lawyers has put the Department of Justice “in warning”, warning that the continuous dismissal of FBI prosecutors or agents could trigger rapid legal actions. In recent days, Trump’s appointed have begun to end or threaten to rescind the people who legally investigated on January 6 or Mar-A-Lago’s house by President Donald Trump, when he was under criminal accusation for allegedly retaining documents classified.

The lawyers who represent some of these career officials now trained in a letter to the Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove that the shots that began last week can violate the simple rights of due process and that those aimed at the termination are deeply concerned that the Department of Justice is now “plans to publicly disseminate the names of the employees they plan or really end, despite the risk of stigmatization.”

Lawyer Mark Zaid and representatives of the State Democracy Defenders Fund, including the executive president of the Guardian, Norm Eisen and his member of the Board and the federal judge retired, Nancy Gertner, wrote: “The continuation in this course of Action is a direct assault on the national security of US citizens who have sworn to serve faithful and selflessly. “

Last week, the FBIThe interim director of Brian Driscoll informed the office of the office that Bove, who once represented Trump in his criminal cases, requested a list of FBI agents or other employees who worked on January 6. Bove said then “would determine if additional personnel actions were necessary.”

A former US prosecutor who investigated on January 6 said they knew at least 25 of 30 agents who had been fired or transferred to another office, according to Political. Meanwhile, at least six of the main leaders of the FBI were also expelled, NBC news reported on January 31. The Department of Justice announced last week that more than a dozen prosecutors who worked in Donald Trump’s criminal probes under former special lawyer Jack Smith were fired after being considered unable to “faithfully implement” Trump’s agenda.

“Given your important role in the prosecution of the president, I do not believe that the leadership of the department can trust you to help implement the president’s agenda faithfully,” said farewell memorandum, according to The New York Times.

During the weekend, Zaid, Eisen and Gertner, in a letter to Bove, argued that the shots violate federal privacy laws, which already prohibited the dissemination of the records of federal officials without their consent.

“As they know well, FBI agents routinely investigate violent and sophisticated criminals, many of whom are finally prosecuted and imprisoned, and host the animosity towards the application of the law,” they wrote. “These agents include individuals with decades of sensitive experience in the FBI and the public exposure of their identities would be subject to the immediate risk of doxing, swelling, harassment or possibly worse.”

In fact, they added, the perspective of this damage has already been “threatened by some who were convicted of crimes for their activities on January 6, 2021”.

Trump forgave or commuted more than 1,500 protesters of January 6, including those who were convicted of violent police assault or were convicted of participating in a violent conspiracy to seditiously stop the transfer of power of the nation.

The lawyers of prosecutors and dismissed agents say that, at least, the people who were allowed to go, should have received a written proposal from “disciplinary action or termination” and then have been given the opportunity to respond and, if, if It is necessary, and in your account. Expenditure: Find a lawyer to appeal the decision.

“If you proceed with the terminations and/or the public exhibition of the identities of the finished employees, we are ready to claim their rights through all available legal means”, the letter of February 2 to the interim director of the FBI, Driscoll, US Prosecutor Ed Martin and James Mchenryry, Interim Attorney General, States.

When Trump was asked if he had a role in the shooting in the DOJ and the FBI, he said “no”, but immediately followed him with attacks against the agency and his staff, saying: “”We have some very bad people there. “

Trump added: “If they shot some people there, that’s something good because they were very bad.”

The memorandum of the Justice Department written by Bove last week echoed Trump’s feelings. Bove characterized the prosecution of January 6 as a “serious national injustice” and wrote: “I will not tolerate actions of subversive personnel from the previous administration in any office of the United States prosecutor. Too much is at stake. In the light of the above , the appropriate course is to end these employees. “

Bove, the second highest -ranking legal official in La Nación, said it intends to investigate how the Department of Justice under the Biden administration took advantage of prosecutors to work on the cases of January 6 through the test contracting program of the department.

In an email to Huffpost on Monday, Zaid said: “We are making all efforts to avoid these illegal purges, but the reality is that we are preparing more for the legal challenges to hold the government and their officials responsible for the destruction they are libraning” .