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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. Copyright (c)2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8 [wsj-logo-b] Continue reading your article with a WSJ subscription Subscribe Now Already a subscriber? 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