FBI Fires 2 Analysts Who Refused Georgia 2020 Election Probe
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Updated · ms.now · Jul 11
FBI Fires 2 Analysts Who Refused Georgia 2020 Election Probe
3 articles · Updated · ms.now · Jul 11
Summary
Two Atlanta-based FBI intelligence analysts — a married couple — were fired last week after refusing to work on the Trump administration’s Georgia 2020 election investigation, saying it was not justified under FBI and Justice Department rules.
About 260 analysts nationwide have been ordered to support the Atlanta-based "priority investigation," with a memo requiring 708 record checks each by July 17 and one office told to vet 175,000 names through a commercial database.
The probe has already seized 600 boxes of ballots and other election materials, even though Biden won Georgia by nearly 12,000 votes and prior Republican-led reviews found no fraud that could have changed the result.
A federal judge last week called a related Justice Department subpoena for Georgia election workers' identities "unreasonable," while Sen. Mark Warner said the effort diverts FBI resources into a political investigation months before the 2026 midterms.