Ask and ye shall receive. Or in this case, order and it shall be given unto you.
Yesterday, the FBI contemplated stonewalling the new leadership at the Department of Justice over their demand for personnel assignments to the January 6 investigation. Some of the executives had already begun advising agents to refuse to answer a mandatory interrogatory from the DoJ, in effect counseling insubordination.
NBC News reports that the FBI’s attorneys have rethought that approach, and will now cooperate instead:
FBI executives contemplated resisting Justice Department demands that they turn over the names of FBI personnel involved in Capitol riot cases but ultimately decided they must comply with what lawyers deemed a lawful order, current and former FBI officials told NBC News.
Among the options under consideration was to send only the names of managers and senior…
