The FBI is seeking retaliation against the Capitol riot investigators: A memo announcing a Jan. 6 FBI investigation

The FBI on Tuesday handed over a list to the Justice Department of bureau employees who worked on the Jan. 6 Capitol riot investigation — but did not include the individuals’ names because of security concerns, according to a person familiar with the matter.

Instead of names, the FBI provided what’s known as a unique employee identifiers — in essence an employee ID number, the person said on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss personnel matters.

The information is part of an effort to change the FBI and DOJ so that they will serve President Trump’s agenda. Trump faced off against the Justice Department in a pair of criminal cases over the past couple of years — until those prosecutions were dropped after he won the election.

“No FBI employee who simply followed orders and carried out their duties in an ethical manner with respect to January6 investigations is at risk of being terminated or demoted,” Bove wrote in the message obtained by NPR.

One of the lawsuits was filed by the FBI Agents Association and anonymous agents, which counts the vast majority of the bureau’s roughly 15,000 agents as members. The other suit was filed anonymously by a group of nine FBI agents.

The FBI employees that investigated the defendants could face reprisals by January 6. Trump pardoned some 1,500 Capitol riot defendants, including individuals convicted of assaulting police.

“Plaintiffs assert that the purpose for this list is to identify agents to be terminated or to suffer other adverse employment action,” one of the lawsuits states. The lawsuits fear that allies of President Trump would publish parts of the list and then retaliate against the people on it.

The lawsuit says that Tarrio, who was pardoned by Trump after being sentenced to 22 years in prison for seditious conspiracy, “openly expressed his intent to seek retaliation against the FBI.”

The only individuals who should be concerned, the memo says, “are those who acted with corrupt or partisan intent, who blatantly defied orders from Department leadership, or who exercised discretion in weaponizing the FBI.”

FBI agents who followed orders and carried out their duties in an ethical manner during the Capitol riot aren’t at risk of being fired, says a top Justice Department official.