DOJ Agrees Not to Disseminate List of FBI Agents Who Worked on Jan. 6 Investigation

The Trump administration has agreed not to disseminate the names of FBI employees who worked on the investigation of the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol breach. The agreement came as part of a lawsuit in which anonymous FBI employees and the FBI Agents Association sought a restraining order to prevent the release of such a list. U.S. District Judge Jia Cobb deferred ruling on the request for a restraining order on Feb. 7 and instead signed an order with terms agreed to by the plaintiffs and the Department of Justice (DOJ). It read in part: “The Government will not disseminate the list at issue in these consolidated cases [and any subsequent versions of that list, including any record pairing the unique identifiers on the list to names] to the public, directly or indirectly, before the court rules on plaintiffs’ anticipated motions for a preliminary injunction.”...