The FBI’s Capitol Detection memo and its possible firing by Jan. 6 convicted felons: An employee identifier memo warned against retaliation by the FBI

The FBI on Tuesday handed over a list to the Justice Department of bureau employees who worked on the Jan. 6 Capitol riot investigation — but did not include the individuals’ names because of security concerns, according to a person familiar with the matter.

Instead of names, the FBI provided what’s known as a unique employee identifiers — in essence an employee ID number, the person said on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss personnel matters.

It is part of a plan to remake the FBI and DOJ in order to serve President Trump’s agenda. The prosecutions of the two criminal cases against Trump were dropped after he won the election.

In the same memo, with the subject line “Terminations,” acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove ordered the firing of eight senior FBI officials, leading to panic at the FBI of a possible purge of thousands of agents in retaliation for their work on Capitol riot cases.

The majority of the bureau’s 15000 agents are members of the FBI Agents Association and have filed one of the lawsuits. The other suit was filed anonymously by a group of nine FBI agents.

Both of the complaints cite concerns about potential retaliation by Jan. 6 defendants against FBI employees who investigated them. Trump pardoned some 1,500 Capitol riot defendants, including individuals convicted of assaulting police.

“Plaintiffs assert that the purpose for this list is to identify agents to be terminated or to suffer other adverse employment action,” one of the lawsuits states. “Plaintiffs reasonably fear that all or parts of this list might be published by allies of President Trump, thus placing themselves and their families in immediate danger of retribution by the now pardoned and at-large Jan. 6 convicted felons.”

In one of them, Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio, who was convicted of seditious conspiracy and sentenced to 22 years in prison before being pardoned by Trump, has “openly expressed his intent to seek retaliation against the FBI,” the lawsuit says.

The only individuals who should be concerned, the memo says, “are those who acted with corrupt or partisan intent, who blatantly defied orders from Department leadership, or who exercised discretion in weaponizing the FBI.”

According to a top justice department official, FBI agents who followed orders and carried out their jobs in an ethical manner do not face the risk of being fired.