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FBI vets all national Guard as fears grow of insider attack.

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WASHINGTON U.S. authoritie­s are investigat­ing whether a woman took a laptop computer or hard drive from u.s. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office during the Jan. 6 siege of the Capitol and tried to sell it to russian intelligen­ce, according to a court filing.

An FBI agent disclosed the detail in an affidavit released on Sunday that outlined a criminal case against riley June Williams, a Pennsylvan­ia woman accused of unlawfully breaching the Capitol building and directing people to Pelosi’s office.

According to the affidavit, the FBI received a tip from a former partner of Williams. The tipster said Williams “intended to send the computer device to a friend in russia, who then planned to sell the device to SVR, russia’s foreign intelligen­ce service.”

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