The FBI has ramped up its investigation into the 2020 election in Georgia by dedicating more personnel to what an internal memo refers to as a “priority,” a person familiar with the matter told CNN. The memo calls for the FBI to quickly bring in an additional 260 FBI intelligence officials, on top of those agents already working in the Atlanta area.
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Some of the intelligence personnel — which includes people who are skilled at analyzing data — will work on the investigation remotely, a law enforcement official familiar with the investigation told CNN. The FBI declined to comment for this story.
The plans for the investigative surge come amid weeks of efforts by the Justice Department and Trump administration to ramp up election-related investigations. Kurt Olsen, a person who questioned the 2020 results, made the referral in January that reinvigorated a recent criminal probe.
Late that month, the FBI served a warrant at an elections office in Fulton County, Georgia, seizing 700 boxes of election materials. The probe in Georgia is the centerpiece of President Donald Trump’s so-called “election integrity” efforts and baseless claims that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from him.
Original reporting: KTVZ (Central Oregon) — read the source article.
