FBI Fires Two Intelligence Analysts Who Refused to Participate in Georgia 2020 Election Investigation

Two Atlanta-based FBI intelligence analysts, a husband and wife, were fired last week after refusing to work on the bureau's investigation into Georgia's 2020 presidential election, three people familiar with the matter told MS NOW 1. The pair told colleagues they did not believe the probe was justified under FBI and Justice Department policy and were escorted from their office 1. The FBI would not confirm or deny the firings and said in a statement that "any deviation" from its standards "will not be tolerated" 1. The dismissals follow FBI Director Kash Patel's directive assigning roughly 260 intelligence analysts nationwide to the Georgia inquiry, with each required to complete 708 record checks by July 17, including running a list of 175,000 names and birthdates through a commercial database 12. A federal judge last week quashed a Justice Department subpoena for Fulton County election workers' records as "unreasonable" 12, and Senate Intelligence Committee Vice Chairman Mark Warner sent Patel and acting Attorney General Todd Blanche a letter criticizing the resource diversion ahead of the 2026 midterms 1.