Donald Trump’s political appointees at the justice department will consider in the coming weeks whether to purge a large number of FBI agents who worked on the criminal cases against the president and cases against rioters who stormed the US Capitol on 6 January 2021.
The move comes as the justice department on Friday also told FBI leadership that eight senior executives at the bureau – including those overseeing national security, cybersecurity and counter-terrorism – needed to be fired, unless they retired beforehand.
