Peloni: Should this result in simply supporting the termination of those involved in the ‘Review Process’, it will be a terrible miscarriage of justice. Political and legal malfeasance masked as legal prosecution needs to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. It is not enough for the US to return to legitimate application of the law going into the future, rather it must be used to prosecute those who used the misapplication of the law over the past four years, not based on political affiliation, but upon the proper use of legal standards. It will be the latter and not the former which will result from the Trump administration not prosecuting every individual involved in the legal tragedy which has come to be known as January 6. Transparency and Accountability are equally required to serve the needs of justice. Anything less is political collusion, no matter who is pulling the strings.
The Department of Justice (DOJ) fired prosecutors investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 riot at the Capitol and demanded the names of the FBI agents involved in the case ahead of a possible similar purge, The Associated Press (AP) reported Friday.
The firing — ordered by Acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove — affected about 12 employees at the U.S. attorney’s office in Washington, the outlet reported.
More than six FBI senior executives were ordered to retire or be fired by Monday, according to a separate memo by Bove, the AP reported. Bove also reportedly asked for the names, titles and offices of all FBI employees — potentially thousands — who worked on the J6 investigations.
The DOJ would then execute a “review process to determine whether any additional personnel actions are necessary,” Bove said, according to the outlet.
Bove also said he would not “tolerate subversive personnel actions by the previous administration,” an apparent reference to the Biden administration’s promotion of the now-fired employees into permanent positions after President Donald Trump’s 2024 electoral victory, according to the outlet.
The firings follow the ousters of a number of senior FBI executives and the termination of prosecutors on special counsel Jack Smith’s team who investigated Trump, the outlet reported.
The firings also follow Trump’s blanket pardons for more than 1,500 of the J6 defendants in an Inauguration Day executive order.
The FBI Agents Association reportedly described the request for details of the J6-investigating FBI agents by Bove as “outrageous actions by acting officials” that were “fundamentally at odds with the law enforcement objectives outlined by President Trump and his support for FBI Agents.”
“Dismissing potentially hundreds of Agents would severely weaken the Bureau’s ability to protect the country from national security and criminal threats and will ultimately risk setting up the Bureau and its new leadership for failure,” the association said in a statement, AP reported.
The FBI has internal review processes for terminations — processes FBI Director nominee Kash Patel told senators during his Thursday confirmation hearing he would keep to, AP reported.
“As we’ve said since the moment we agreed to take on these roles, we are going to follow the law, follow FBI policy, and do what’s in the best interest of the workforce and the American people — always,” acting FBI Director Brian Driscoll wrote in a letter to the workforce, AP reported.
The old argument, “I was just doing what I was ordered to do”, was definitively refuted at Nuremberg. If any FBI agents, (who, by the way, have extensive training in constitutional law), were ordered to commit illegal acts, it was their sworn duty to decline the orders, regardless of the consequences. Proceeding to act upon clearly illegal orders, makes them co-conspirators. They do not deserve any leniency, rather, they deserve prosecution, if it should come.
@Chocpot: I love your statements regarding revenge, retribution or justice. While they are perfect with regard to the J6 issue, the fit remarkedly well in the activities in the Middle East following Oct 7, 2023. For some reason, it is always termed unjust to attack the innocent “Palestinians” in the Gaza Strip but seen in the light of justice rather than revenge or retribution, I think it is 100% correct to let justice be applied.
when was the last ” guilty of treason ”
trial ?
We have thankfully survived the last four years under the most corrupt, criminal, treasonous administration in this nation’s history. If justice is to be done, a thorough investigation must be performed on all instances of “lawfare” and those who perpetrated it, as well as all instances of other apparent criminal and/or treasonous behavior, and those who have broken the law must be punished. This is neither revenge nor retribution; rather, it is justice. This justice must be thorough and complete as a lesson not only to those who participated in these illegal acts, but as a lesson to those who might engage in such criminality in the future.