FBI officials have complied with demands to provide the Justice Department with a list of thousands of employees who worked on investigations related to the January 6, 2021, US Capitol riot, according to people familiar with the situation.

An anonymous group of FBI agents and employees took the unusual step on Tuesday of suing the U.S. Justice Department in a bid to prevent President Donald Trump and his allies from publicly disseminating a list of names of all the bureau's employees who worked on Jan.

In a class action suit filed on Tuesday, the agents said the information will be used to retaliate against them through firings or other actions.

The filing includes an image of the questionnaire sent out to identify bureau employees who worked on the investigation.

President Donald Trump's administration launched a sweeping round of cuts at the Justice Department on Friday that appeared to focus on FBI agents and others who worked on cases related to the Jan. 6,

FBI agents who participated in investigations related to President Donald Trump have sued over Justice Department efforts to develop a list of employees involved in those inquiries that agents fear co

Attorneys for the agents said using information about cases involving Jan. 6 or President Donald Trump to fire FBI employees would be unlawful and retaliatory.

FBI agents file class action lawsuit against Trump’s Justice Department over ‘retribution’ for Jan 6 and Mar-a-Lago investigations - FBI agents accuse the Department of Justice of ‘unlawful’ and ‘reta

The FBI’s 13,700 agents were supposed to respond by 3 p.m. Monday to a 12-question survey regarding what role, if any, they played in the Jan. 6 investigation. The order came from Emil Bove, formerly a federal prosecutor and one of President Donald Trump’s criminal lawyers until his client appointed him acting deputy attorney general.