FBI Searched Jan. 6 Rioters and George Floyd Demonstrators in Spy Database

Agency used foreign spying law to gather intelligence in what one lawmaker called ‘shocking abuses’

People protested in Minneapolis after George Floyd’s killing in 2020. Photo: Stephen Maturen/Getty Images)

WASHINGTON—The Federal Bureau of Investigation improperly searched a trove of intelligence gathered through a foreign spying law for information on people suspected of participating in the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol and the George Floyd protests, a court opinion released Friday showed.

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