The freakout over Trump’s order to give the administration the names of FBI employees who participated in the January 6th investigations has, expectedly, turned out to be much ado about relatively little.
The order was required by the insubordination of an FBI manager who refused to turn over the names of the core investigative team who abused their power, not to create a massive list of agents to be targeted for retribution.
Top DOJ official says FBI employees who ‘simply followed orders’ on Jan 6 investigations won’t be fired https://t.co/RVWxepJd7R
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Frankly, I am not surprised by this development. There was no way that a significant percentage of FBI agents would be fired just for completing assignments. Democrats have been screaming about Trump putting together a “hit list,” which was the…