FBI agents detail J6 role in exhaustive questionnaire, spanning ‘thousands’ of employees

FIRST ON FOX: A questionnaire that employees with the Federal Bureau of Investigation said was sent to thousands of people in the agency’s ranks this month asked detailed questions about any role agents may have played in the investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol riots – ranging from whether they testified in any criminal trials to when they last participated in investigation-related activity.

The questionnaire was included in a lawsuit filed by nine current FBI agents and employees in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on Tuesday.

Several sources with knowledge of the questionnaire told Fox News Digital that they had seen the same document. 

The White House and Justice Department did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment. 

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President Donald Trump has called the FBI “corrupt” and insisted his nominee for FBI director, Kash Patel, will clean the agency up.  (Getty Images)

The FBI said Tuesday afternoon that it has provided the Justice Department with a list of personnel who worked on Jan. 6 investigations and criminal cases, in keeping with an earlier deadline provided by DOJ.

Questions ranged from agents’ participation in any grand jury subpoenas, whether the agents worked or responded to leads from another FBI field office, or if they worked as a case agent for investigations.

Fox News also learned that the information provided to the Department of Justice, at the request of Acting U.S. Deputy Attorney Emil Bove, included details on “thousands” of employees such as their unique identifying numbers, current title, their role in the relevant investigation, and their title at the time of the investigation. 

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Kash Patel, President Donald Trump’s choice to be director of the FBI, appears before the Senate Judiciary Committee for his confirmation hearing, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 30, 2025.  (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Former Justice Department officials have cited concerns that the probe or any retaliatory measures carried out as a result could have a chilling effect on the work of the FBI, including its more than 52 separate field offices.

But one retired FBI agent urged calm, noting to Fox News that the acting director and deputy director of the FBI still remain in place. This person also stressed that the Jan. 6 investigation and the FBI personnel involved in investigating each case “fully followed Bureau and DOJ guidelines,” and that violations of federal statutes were “proven beyond a reasonable doubt in federal courts of law.”

A scene from the January 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol in 2021. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File)

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President Donald Trump declined to answer questions on Monday over whether his administration would remove FBI employees involved in the investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol riot, telling reporters only that he believes the bureau is “corrupt” and that his nominee for FBI director, Kash Patel, will “straighten it out.”can

To date, there are no known plans to conduct sweeping removals or take punitive action against the agents involved.