FBI orders 260 staffers to Georgia to assist with 2020 election investigation

Memo calls for surge' of analysts after agents in January seized hundreds of boxes containing Fulton county ballots

The FBI has asked its field offices across the country to dedicate more than 200 staffers to its investigation of the 2020 election in Georgia's Fulton county.

A memo obtained Thursday by the Associated Press calls for the FBI to surge" 260 investigative analysts and staff operations specialists to the effort, which it described as a priority investigation".