Patel Orders Nationwide FBI Surge To Probe ‘Priority’ Fulton County Investigation

The FBI is deploying hundreds of intelligence analysts from field offices across the country to assist in its “priority investigation” into possible election fraud in Georgia’s Fulton County during the 2020 presidential election, according to declassified documents obtained by MSNOW.In the memos, FBI Director Kash Patel is requesting a combined total of 260 FBI intelligence officials and analysts from the agency’s 56 field offices while authorizing them to work overtime and weekends on the investigation stemming from its January 28th seizure of election ballots from the Fulton County Elections Hub and Operations Center, a warehouse located near Atlanta. Each intelligence analyst is expected to perform 708 records checks by July 17, MSNOW reported.“In support of the Director’s Office priority effort, the Directorate of Intelligence (DI) and Criminal Division are requesting all FBI field offices to immediately surge support to an FBI Atlanta priority investigation,” the memo reads, as was first reported by MSNOW.A law enforcement source close to the FBI confirmed to the Sun that Mr. Patel sent out a canvas calling on every office to contribute without specifying the exact nature of the “priority investigation.”“They didn’t tell people what it was. But knowing it’s Atlanta, one could figure it out,” the law enforcement source tells The Sun.An FBI official told MSNOW that analysts are expected to look for “derogatory information” to help “build a case” related to its Fulton County election fraud investigation.The FBI did not respond to questions from the Sun. FBI agents seized at least 600 boxes of records, including ballot images, voter rolls, and tabulator tapes from every voting machine used in Fulton County as part of its criminal investigation into possible voter fraud stemming from the 2020 presidential election between President Donald Trump and former President Biden.The investigation was based on a referral made by Election Security and Integrity director and Justice Department official Kurt Olsen, who referred the investigation to the FBI, according to the original affidavit. The U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri, Thomas Albus, is overseeing the investigation. The January 28 raid was attended by former Missouri attorney general and FBI co-deputy director Andrew Bailey and a former Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, a Democrat from Rhode Island, accused the Trump White House and Ms. Gabbard of creating “unnecessary vulnerabilities for a prosecution.” Mr. Trump said Ms. Gabbard was present at the scene at the insistence of then-Attorney General Pam Bondi, although Ms. Gabbard would later say she attended at the personal request of the President.The FBI special agent in charge of the Atlanta office, Paul W. Brown, resigned from his position days before the January 28 raid. Mr. Trump has long maintained that the 2020 Presidential election was “rigged” in Mr. Biden’s favor and has accused Fulton County, which Mr. Biden won by nearly 12,000 votes of election fraud. In May, a federal judge ruled that the Justice Department did not have to return the election ballots seized by the FBI during its January 28 search.

Patel Orders Nationwide FBI Surge To Probe ‘Priority’ Fulton County Investigation

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