FBI employees have been instructed to reveal their involvement in the investigation related to the Capitol riot.

On Sunday, FBI employees were instructed to respond to a questionnaire regarding any work they may have done on criminal cases related to the storming of the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. This has raised concerns about a new wave of firings within the law enforcement agency.

This was reported by RBK-Ukraine citing Reuters.

The list of questions in the memo, which the media has seen, requires FBI employees to state their positions, describe their roles in the investigation of the January 6 riots organized by current President Donald Trump, and clarify whether they assisted in overseeing such investigations.

"I know that I and others who received this questionnaire have many questions and concerns, and I am diligently working to get answers," wrote Chad Yarbrough, assistant director of the Criminal Investigations Division at FBI headquarters, in an email.

He informed staff that responses need to be submitted by 3:00 PM Eastern Time (10:00 PM Kyiv time). The FBI representative declined to comment on the questionnaire.

In turn, Democrats and other critics stated that Trump’s team is conducting a purge among FBI and Justice Department employees who were involved in criminal cases against the current President of the United States and participants in the January 6 riots.

Thus, on the first day of his return to the presidency, January 20, 2025, Trump commuted the sentences of 14 individuals charged with storming the Capitol. Additionally, he pardoned others, including those who committed violent attacks on law enforcement officers.

A few days earlier, on Friday, Acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove demanded that the FBI provide him with a list of all employees who worked on the January 6 cases by noon Tuesday Eastern Time, as well as a list of those who worked on the criminal case initiated last year against leaders of the military group Hamas in connection with the war in Gaza.

He also fired eight senior FBI officials from the agency's headquarters, as well as the heads of field offices in Miami and Washington.

Last week, Bove dismissed more than a dozen career prosecutors from the Justice Department who had worked on two now-closed criminal cases brought by Special Prosecutor Jack Smith against Trump. One of these involved actions taken to overturn the results of the 2020 election, while the other pertained to classified government documents.

It is worth noting that after U.S. President Donald Trump pardoned around 1,500 participants of the January 6 riot, one participant declined the pardon. She described it as a disregard for the rule of law.

"It would be a slap in the face to the rule of law, the Capitol police, and our nation," said Pamela Hemphill.