Bureau staff who “simply followed orders” in Jan. 6 probe won’t be disciplined, DOJ’s acting No. 2 Emil Bove wrote.

Acting deputy attorney general Emil Bove said that “no FBI employee who simply followed orders and carried out their duties in an ethical manner” would be disciplined.

The acting deputy attorney general accused FBI leadership of “insubordination” by refusing to identify a “core team” of bureau employees who worked on January 6 investigations, while trying to assure that rank-and-file agents who “simply followed orders” will not be fired unless they “acted with corrupt or partisan intent,

FBI agents are suing the Trump administration to prevent it from publicly naming staff involved in an investigation into the January 6 Capitol attack in 2021 amid an intensifying crackdown against the president’s perceived enemies.