FBI orders 260 staffers to Georgia to assist with 2020 election investigation
Key takeaways
- A polling place in Atlanta for early voting in the 2020 election.
- Prefer the Guardian on Google The FBI has asked its field offices across the country to dedicate more than 200 staffers to its investigation of the 2020 election in Georgia’s Fulton county.
- A memo obtained Thursday by the Associated Press calls for the FBI to “surge” 260 investigative analysts and staff operations specialists to the effort, which it described as a “priority investigation.”
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A polling place in Atlanta for early voting in the 2020 election. Photograph: Bloomberg/Getty Images View image in fullscreen. A polling place in Atlanta for early voting in the 2020 election. Photograph: Bloomberg/Getty Images FBIFBI orders 260 staffers to Georgia to assist with 2020 election investigation Memo calls for ‘surge’ of analysts after agents in January seized hundreds of boxes containing Fulton county ballots
Prefer the Guardian on Google The FBI has asked its field offices across the country to dedicate more than 200 staffers to its investigation of the 2020 election in Georgia’s Fulton county.
A memo obtained Thursday by the Associated Press calls for the FBI to “surge” 260 investigative analysts and staff operations specialists to the effort, which it described as a “priority investigation.”