Agents say bid to compile list of employees who worked on US Capitol attack cases could be precursor to mass firings

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FBI agents who participated in investigations related to Donald Trump have sued over justice department efforts to develop a list of employees involved in those inquiries that they fear could be a precursor to mass firings.

The class-action complaint, filed Tuesday in federal court in Washington, seeks an immediate halt to the justice department plans to compile a list of investigators who participated in investigations of the January 6 2021 riot at the US Capitol as well as Trump’s hoarding of classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida.