Official Trump directed to January 6 The researchers worked in those cases himself

After a multitude of supporters of Donald Trump violently assaulted the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021, Emil Bove He led the efforts of federal prosecutors in Manhattan to help FBI investigate, identify and arrest the uproar of the New York region.

Four years later, Bove is now the official of No. 2 in the Department of Justice of President Trump. He has used that hanger to denounce the investigation of the disturbances of the Capitol and the head of the prosecutors, and potentially of FBI agents, who worked in the cases of January 6.

The disconnection between Bove’s aggressive position to hold the uproar to the assault on January 6 and their current hostility around the investigation has bothered some former colleagues.

“At no time I heard him or any other person express concern about these investigations and these arrests we were doing,” said Christopher O’Leary, who was a senior anti -terrorism official in the FBI New York field office at that time at that time . “We never listen to any setback from him or anyone in his office.”

The Department of Justice did not immediately answer the questions about the disconnection between Bove’s role in New York and his actions since he entered the Department of Justice.

When the attack of January 6 occurred, Bove was the co -president of the International Terrorism and Narcotics Unit at the United States Prosecutor’s Office for the Southern District of New York.

In that role, it helped supervise all office work related to the Capitol’s attack, ordering prosecutors to support FBI in the investigation and supervise efforts to obtain things such as the search for guarantees, according to O’Leary and a former prosecutor who worked with Bove.

Like O’Leary, the former prosecutor said Bove never expressed any reserve on disturbance investigation. On the contrary, said the former prosecutor, Bove “gave a strong and direct breath to the prosecutors of the line to aggressively carry out the investigation, the legal process, the support for the FBI, etc.”

The person spoke about anonymity to describe the internal dynamics of the office.

As a co-choin of the unit, Bove also participated in weekly meetings of the Joint Terrorism Working Group In New York, which gave him an overview of cases and operations in the New York region, including investigations on January 6.

Bove and his team, O’Leary, they said, “they were intimately involved in all these cases and very well informed (research).”

“I always had a good working relationship with him, I was impressed with him as a lawyer, as a reliable partner, as a professional committed to our anti -terrorism cases,” O’Leary said.

But his point of view has changed in recent weeks in the light of what Bove has made since he moved to a main job in Trump’s department.

“I am really surprised and disappointed by their actions, how FBI is chasing and employees who were conducting investigations in the same way that they would have conducted any investigation,” O’Leary said.

Moves to the agency

Bove left the United States prosecutor in Manhattan approximately one year after the Capitol’s uproar. He moved to private practice and joined Trump’s Legal Defense Team Together with Todd Blanche, who has been nominated to serve as attached attorney general in the Department of Justice of the Attorney General Pam Bondi.

If Blanche is confirmed, Bove would serve as his best deputy. But until then, Bove has been the interim attached attorney general.

And in that role, in the last three weeks, he has imposed a series of personnel movements that have Shake of the department and the FBI.

He has transferred Several main career lawyers with decades of experience in a new office that manages the application of immigration, effectively expelling them from the department.

He has also fired dozens of Capitory Riot prosecutors at the United States prosecutor’s office in Washington, DC, January 6 prosecutors were brought during the Biden administration to help handle the more than 1,600 rings’ rings of the Capitol, which, which It was one of the greatest investigations in the Department of Justice Historia.

In a memorandum, Bove said that hiring these prosecutors was a “subversive” step of the Biden administration and hindered the ability of the department to “faithfully implement” Trump’s agenda.

In the front of the FBI, he has pushed Eight senior office officials, according to the memorandum, and demanded the names of the FBI agents who worked on January 6 of the cases, deactivating the fear of possible massive shots in the office.

Bove has told the office that the name list is needed to review the behavior of the agents in the light of an executive order that Trump signed about ending with the assumption weapon of the federal government.

“No FBI employee who simply followed the orders and carried out his duties ethically with respect to the research of January 6 is at risk of termination or other sanctions,” Bove wrote in a email last week addressed to all FBI employees.

The only individuals who should worry, continued, “are those who acted with corrupt or partisan intention, who blatantly challenged the leadership orders of the department, or who exercised discretion in the FBI weapons.”

After a tense round trip, the FBI and the interim director Brian Driscoll finally provided a list of names of employees from the office to the Department of Justice. Driscoll has told the FBI workforce that he is one of the agents that worked on January 6, according to an email he sent.

Although Bove did not work as a line prosecutor accusing the defendants, he supervised prosecutors who did the legal work in the cases of January 6.

In at least one case, Bove and Driscoll worked in the same case of January 6: Samuel Fisher’s arrest in Manhattan, according to the former prosecutor who worked with Bove in New York. Driscoll participated in the arrest of Fisher, who was finally sentenced to 120 days in prison for his activities in the United States Capitol. Bove got up late that night checking the legal paperwork to support the FBI, said the former prosecutor.

The former prosecutor said that if a list of lawyers from the department that worked on January 6. The cases were collected in the same way that the list of FBI agents was: “Emil’s name surely would also be on that list.”