Lawyers for FBI employees who worked on cases related to the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot argued before a federal judge Wednesday that the Department of Justice has compiled the agents’ names not for any internal investigation, but for public revenge.
“It was pretext … for either public release or release to the White House,” said Margaret Donovan, a lawyer representing anonymous FBI employees.
Lawyers for the Department of Justice made clear Wednesday that they had no intention of deleting the list of names.