Officers were tasked with guarding the building and personnel after some social media comments called for protests or other methods to secure the files if names are scrubbed from the documents.
The FBI sent its uniformed police officers to the Central Records Complex to guard the facility. The officers, who normally patrol the FBI's headquarters in Washington, were also assigned to protect top officials and staff at the Virginia facility, the people familiar said.
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