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In a report that has left critics of Washington's Deep State radicalism gasping, it has been confirmed that the FBI used 5,000 agents – of its 13,000 total – to go after J6ers and President Donald Trump.

The Gateway Pundit commented, "The FBI officials who worked on the J6 cases and Trump investigations were identified by a case management system."

And it cited NBC's Ken Dilanian who explained an internal FBI document obtained by NBC shows that executives use the FBI's Sentinel case file management system to identify agents and employees who worked on January 6 cases. "The document says there were around 2,400 investigations in total. The document says the search of case files was used to generate a list of names who then received a survey asking them exactly what they did on these cases," the report said.

The report said it's now that FBI agents are "in fear of being outed, demoted or denied promotions in the future."

Politico reported that FBI agents already have gone to court to try to keep their involvement in the cases a secret.

They claim, "Plaintiffs legitimately fear that the information being compiled will be accessed by persons who are not authorized to have access to it. Plaintiffs further assert that even if they are not targeted for termination, they may face other retaliatory acts such as demotion, denial of job opportunities or denial of promotions in the future."

They are complaining that they fear the list of agents who prosecuted Capitol trespassers with sometimes years-long jail terms, and who tried to put Trump in jail before his election, "will be used as part of a retaliation campaign."

The report also noted what is not surprising: That ex-chief Andrew McCabe claims the bureau is in "utter disarray."