A group of anonymous FBI employees has filed a class action lawsuit against the Trump administration, alleging it violated their constitutional rights by gathering and potentially releasing information on employees who partook in investigations surrounding the events of Jan. 6, 2021, and the Mar-A-Lago classified documents case.
The lawsuit centers on a survey the employees say they were directed to fill out that identified their specific role in those cases.
“Plaintiffs assert that the purpose of this list is to identify agents to be terminated or to suffer other adverse employment action,” the lawsuit, filed in federal court in Washington, reads.
“Plaintiffs reasonably fear that all or parts of this list might be published by allies of President Trump, thus placing themselves and their families in immediate danger of retribution by the now pardoned and at-large Jan. 6 convicted felons.”…