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FBI analysts fired after refusing to join Georgia 2020 election probe 45%
By Ken Dilanian0%
7/11/2026, 9:08:48 PM
BS Summary: This article contains 20 faulty reasoning types, including Unattributed Quote, Availability Heuristic, and Appeal to Authority, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 31.8% saturation with 161 hits. Analysis detected 959 faulty-reasoning hits from 507 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 47.6% and a BS Rank of 45% (11,765 of 21,176 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 55.60% of the article peer group.
Two Atlanta-based FBI intelligence analysts were fired last week after refusing to participate in the Trump administration’s investigation of Georgia’s 2020 presidential election, three people familiar with the matter told MS NOW.
The analysts, a husband and wife, told colleagues they did not believe the investigation was justified under FBI and Justice Department policies, the people said, adding that the couple was escorted out of their office.
The FBI neither confirmed nor denied that the two analysts were fired.
“The FBI will always investigate credible allegations of matters related to federal elections,” an FBI spokesperson told MS NOW.
“Every employee at this FBI is to uphold our mission and adhere to our standards, any deviation will not be tolerated.”
As MS NOW first reported on July 2, FBI Director Kash Patel has directed that about 260 intelligence analysts from around the country devote time to what a memo called a “priority investigation,” in Atlanta.
Multiple sources said it was the probe into the 2020 election in Georgia, which Joe Biden won by nearly 12,000 votes.
After securing a judge’s order, the FBI seized 600 boxes of ballots and other materials from that election in January.
The FBI affidavit in support of the search warrant included several claims about potential fraud that previously had been debunked by Republican-led investigations in Georgia.
The FBI memo says each analyst will be required to make 708 record checks by July 17.
It’s not clear what information the analysts are being tasked to examine, but FBI officials and other sources say it would include material gathered in the course of the investigation, possibly including the ballots themselves.
One person familiar with the matter said analysts in one FBI field office were given a spreadsheet with 175,000 names — along with dates of birth —and that they have been tasked to run those names through a commercial database to check whether the individuals are alive and to determine a current address for each of them.
Last week a federal judge rejected as “ unreasonable ” a Justice Department subpoena seeking the names and other information about Georgia election workers.
Under Justice Department guidelines , the FBI may only conduct an investigation if agents can point to a set of facts reasonably indicating that an actual or potential federal crime or national security threat exists.
Multiple investigations have found no evidence to suggest fraud in the 2020 Georgia election at a level that could have changed the result.
Sen.
Mark Warner, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, criticized the Georgia investigation in a letter his office said he sent to Patel and acting Attorney General Todd Blanche.
“This diversion of significant FBI resources towards a political investigation threatens the purpose of its mission and endangers Americans,” he wrote, noting the timing of the probe coming just months before the 2026 midterm elections.
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