The FBI has provided the Justice Department with names of employees who worked on January 6-related cases after a new demand from the acting deputy attorney general, capping a weeklong back-and-forth between bureau leadership – who had sought to protect agent and staff identities – and the department.

A top Justice Department official on Wednesday told FBI agents they would not be fired if they worked on January 6 investigations because they were ordered to do so and accused FBI leaders of insubordination for initially opposing demands for agents' names.

The acting deputy attorney general accused FBI leadership of “insubordination” by refusing to identify a “core team” of bureau employees who worked on January 6 investigations, while trying to assure that rank-and-file agents who “simply followed orders” will not be fired unless they “acted with corrupt or partisan intent,

The DOJ and lawyers for a group of FBI agents are trying to negotiate an agreement that would prevent the DOJ from releasing the names of FBI agents who probed Jan. 6.

A group of unnamed FBI agents and the FBI Agents Association are seeking to prevent the Justice Department from disclosing a list of names of bureau employees who were tied to Jan. 6 probes.