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.

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,

A judge is considering whether to issue a restraining order to block the FBI from releasing a list of agents who were involved in cases related to the Jan. 6 attack.

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.

A fight between the Department of Justice and the FBI Agents Association about a list of thousands of bureau employees who worked on Jan. 6 cases spilled out into the courtroom Thursday and was left unresolved after an all-day hearing.