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Shop NowThe Department of Justice isn’t happy with a few FBI officials. The acting deputy AG just accused bureau leadership of “insubordination.” They tried to stand in the way of cleaning up the corruption. Now that Pam Bondi has been confirmed and sworn in officially as Attorney General, things are going to be much different around the J. Edgar Hoover building.
Insubordinate FBI leaders
On Wednesday, February 5, acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove sent out an internal memo accusing FBI leadership of “insubordination.” He’s been tasked with digging into “weaponization” of the bureau.
All he wanted was a list of who was on the “core team” of bureau employees “who worked on January 6 investigations.” His subordinates refused to hand it over.
Obviously, the legacy senior officials think there’s something that needs to be covered up. Bove’s request “quickly became a point of contention and sparked two lawsuits that aimed to stop the Justice Department from collecting or releasing any of the information they gathered.”
They claim releasing the names “would put FBI employees in danger.” After refusing to name the core agents, Bove was forced to widen the scope of his request.
Despite the lawsuits and formal protests, the bureau “handed over the details of more than 5,000 FBI agents and employees who worked on investigations related to the January 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol riot.”
Wednesday’s memo clarified that rank-and-file agents who “simply followed orders” will not be fired unless they “acted with corrupt or partisan intent.”
Blatantly defied orders
The only bureau staffers and officials who need to worry about consequences are “those who acted with corrupt or partisan intent, who blatantly defied orders from Department leadership, or who exercised discretion in weaponizing the FBI.”
Bove added in his email that “there is no honor in the ongoing efforts to distort that simple truth or protect culpable actors from scrutiny on these issues, which have politicized the Bureau, harmed its credibility, and distracted the public from the excellent work being done every day.”
Bove further explained that “he asked FBI leadership ‘multiple times‘ to identify a ‘core team‘ of bureau employees who had worked on January 6 investigations because the Justice Department wanted to conduct a narrow review of their work.” That didn’t go over well with the Deep State.
“Acting leadership refused to comply, and led the Justice Department to request a sweeping set information from all current and former agents or employees who touched Capitol riot investigations.”
“That insubordination necessitated, among other things, the directive in my January 31, 2025 memo to identify all agents assigned to investigations relating to January 6, 2021.” They should have simply cooperated when first asked. Now things will go harder on them. “In light of acting leadership’s refusal to comply with the narrower request, the written directive was intended to obtain a complete data set that the Justice Department can reliably pare down to the core team that will be the focus of the weaponization review pursuant to the Executive Order.”
A bunch of FBI officials have already been reassigned to the “Siberia” of dusty basement postings. “Department leadership has also reassigned at least 20 high-level, career positions in the criminal division, as well as the national security division, which in the past has been insulated from shifting political winds.“
