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FBI agents sue to stop naming of Capitol riot investigators

Mike Wendling
BBC News•@mwendling
Reuters A man with his back to the camera walks outside the J Edgar Hoover FBI buildingReuters

Federal Bureau of Investigation officials have handed a list of agents who worked on cases related to the US Capitol riot to the Department of Justice, the latest step towards an expected purge of the bureau's staff.

More than 5,000 names were on the list, sources told CBS, the BBC's US news partner.

Meanwhile, two lawsuits were filed on Tuesday on behalf of agents seeking to keep the names under wraps.

The developments are the latest struggles over the future of the main US federal law enforcement agency. President Donald Trump believes the FBI and DoJ under Joe Biden unfairly targeted him for prosecution.

Last week, new officials appointed by the White House at the justice department – which oversees the FBI – fired dozens of prosecutors who pursued riot-related cases. Those prosecutors also had worked for special prosecutor Jack Smith, who brought charges against Trump for his alleged role in sparking the riot.

And over the weekend, thousands of FBI employees were asked to fill out a questionnaire about their participation in the Capitol riot investigation – the largest in FBI history.

According to Tuesday's legal filings, the form included questions such as, "What was your role in the investigation(s) or prosecution(s) relating to events that occurred at or near the US Capitol on January 6, 2021":[]}