Judge Jia Cobb, a Biden appointee, ordered a pause on the release of the identities of the FBI employees involved in the January 6 cases and Trump investigations after a hearing on Thursday.
The plaintiffs sought a temporary restraining order to prevent the Justice Department from identifying the names of the FBI employees.
Lawyers for the plaintiffs argued publicly naming the employees would put people in danger.
Zaid also claims the posting of names/photos of government employees involved in DEI programs also poses a threat and justifies keeping secret the names of FBI employees.
Pam Keith again admits the information turned over to the DOJ did not contain names–email addresses were…
— Julie Kelly (@julie_kelly2) February 6, 2025
Judge Cobb paused the release of the names until the hearing resumes Friday morning.
Reuters reported:
A U.S. judge on Thursday ordered a brief pause on any public release of the identifies of FBI employees who worked on probes into the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol by Donald Trump supporters following a legal challenge by a group of FBI agents.
U.S. District Judge Jia Cobb in Washington said the order would last until a court hearing resumes on Friday morning.
“If this information were released, I think there’s no question it would put a number of FBI agents at significant and immediate danger,” Cobb said.
On Tuesday, two groups of FBI agents anonymously filed a lawsuit to block the Justice Department from accessing their names.
CNN reported Tuesday afternoon that the FBI turned over the names of the 5,000 employees who worked on J6 and Trump investigations.
According to NBC News, there were more than 2,400 cases in total – but 5,000 officials involved.
The FBI officials who worked on the J6 cases and Trump investigations were identified by a case management system.
NBC reporter Ken Dilanian said that the list does not include names of the agents, rather, the agents were identified by a number called a “unique employee identifier.”
“The Justice Department, of course, can match the numbers with names on the payroll. But by leaving the names off, the FBI ensure that for now there is not a master list floating around of the names of people who worked on January 6th,” he said.
A person directly familiar with a matter tells NBC News the FBI has turned over to the Justice Department—as ordered—a list of thousands of agents and other personnel involved in January 6 cases.
But the person says the list does not include names. The agents were identified by…— Ken Dilanian (@KenDilanianNBC) February 4, 2025
FBI Agents are in fear of being outed, demoted or denied promotions in the future.
“Plaintiffs legitimately fear that the information being compiled will be accessed by persons who are not authorized to have access to it,” the FBI agents argued in their class action lawsuit, according to Politico. “Plaintiffs further assert that even if they are not targeted for termination, they may face other retaliatory acts such as demotion, denial of job opportunities or denial of promotions in the future.”
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