Have Thousands of FBI Employees Been Asked To Create A Database For Use In Firing FBI Employees?

Don't expect terminations anytime soon -- this seems likely for use by the incoming Attorney General and FBI Director.

By noon today, the Acting Director of the FBI, Brian Driscoll has been directed by the Acting Attorney General Emil Bove to produce information concerning every FBI employee – agent, analyst, supervisor, etc., -- who participated in any investigation related to the events of January 6, 2021, at the U.S. Capitol. There was a suggestion over the weekend that Driscoll was resisting having to comply with the directive. Here is the message he sent out to the FBI workforce:

To accomplish this tasking, a multi-page questionnaire was sent to FBI employees via email over the weekend. Currently suspended FBI Special Agent Garrett O’Boyle (@GOBactual) posted the questionnaire on his “X” page. The questions are quite short and straightforward. I don’t read them as either an invitation to go “snitching” on fellow employees/management, nor does the information required lead directly to a firing squad. The questions don’t require much detail about the employee’s involvement in individual January 6 case(s) — that portion of the disclosure is a “check the box” kind of entry. Most of the options are rather ordinary and routine kinds of work that is the scut work of FBI employees on a daily basis.

Something also not known at this point is whether this questionnaire was created by FBI internally, or whether it was created by DOJ and sent to FBI to use.

The nature of the questions seems more indicative of the new Trump DOJ/FBI wanting to build a database of information about who did what, when, why, and how. This kind of database will be helpful to new management in evaluating the work force they are inheriting, as well as some “ with some specifics about job performance of individual employees over the past 4 years.

Here is a screenshot of the first page: