https://technofog.substack.com/p/fbi-whistleblowers-allege-fbi-scheme
FBI Whistleblowers Allege FBI Scheme to Protect Hunter Biden and Joe Biden
And - is Main Justice controlling the Hunter Biden prosecution decisions?
Yesterday, Senator Chuck Grassley sent this letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland and FBI Director Christopher Wray regarding allegations from “highly credible whistleblowers” about the FBI’s “false portrayal” of derogatory Hunter Biden materials as “disinformation.”
If these allegations are true, it’s a damning depiction of FBI leadership and it proves their efforts to influence the 2020 election. This is the second (if not third) straight election the FBI has meddled in, given the influence the Trump/Russia investigation - and its unlawful origins with the FBI - had over the 2018 midterms.
Grassley’s whistleblowers allege that in August 2020, FBI Headquarters “improperly discredit[ed] negative Hunter Biden information as disinformation and caused investigative activity to cease.” In fact, it was a scheme of top FBI officials. As Grassley explains:
“the allegations provided to my office appear to indicate that there was a scheme in place among certain FBI officials to undermine derogatory information connected to Hunter Biden by falsely suggesting it was disinformation.”
The context and timing is important, as this was leading up to the 2020 election. Who benefited from this scheme? Democrat candidate Joe Biden. And it appears the FBI’s scheme furthered the interests of Congressional Democrats. Here’s how that happened.
On July 13, 2020, Democrat leaders – Chuck Schumer, Mark Warner, Nancy Pelosi, and Adam Schiff – sent this letter to the FBI alleging that “Congress was the subject of a foreign disinformation campaign.” The Democrats demanded that “the FBI provide a classified defensive briefing” on the issue of foreign disinformation, and that “the briefing draw on all-source intelligence information and analysis.” Parts of that letter were leaked to tie the Congressional Hunter Biden investigation to foreign disinformation.
Three days later, on July 16, 2020, Democrat Senators Gary Peters and Ron Wyden made their own demand of an FBI and intelligence community briefing related to purported foreign interference.
According to Grassley, these Democrat efforts resulted in an unnecessary briefing from the FBI in August 2020 relating to “disinformation” – which was later leaked to the press to paint the Biden investigation “in a false light.” In other words, the FBI was more than willing to be used by the Democrats less than 3 months before the 2020 election.
Then there’s also the issue of FBI Headquarters interfering in the Hunter Biden investigation. Grassley states:
in September 2020, investigators from the same FBI HQ team were in communication with FBI agents responsible for the Hunter Biden information targeted by Auten’s assessment. The FBI HQ team’s investigators placed their findings with respect to whether reporting was disinformation in a restricted access sub-file reviewable only by the particular agents responsible for uncovering the specific information.
The FBI Headquarters team “made findings” to whether certain reporting was disinformation – and then they limited access to those findings. This begs the question: what were those findings, and did they conflict with the popular narrative, falsely peddled by the Democrats and the media and former intelligence officials, that the Hunter Biden materials were disinformation?
The FBI was reticent to share this information before the election. When then-Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe stated there was “no intelligence to support” allegations of Russian disinformation efforts tied to the Hunter Biden materials, the FBI responded they had “nothing to add at this time.” Of course, this is apparently now disproven. The FBI had something to add. They just didn’t want to share it with the American people.
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And there’s still more.
In October 2020, the whistleblowers allege that “an avenue of additional derogatory Hunter Biden reporting was ordered closed at the direction of” FBI Agent Timothy Thibault.
Who is Thibault? He is a partisan, anti-Trump FBI Agent from the Washington Field Office who shared derogatory social media posts about Attorney General Barr and retweeted Lincoln Project posts insulting President Trump. Thibault has since locked his Twitter account, which is highlighted with a Ukraine flag. You can make your own judgment on that.
Back to Thibault’s actions with respect to the Hunter Biden investigation. The whistleblowers further allege that Thibault suggested the Hunter Biden information was “at risk of disinformation,” although “all of the reporting was either verified or verifiable via criminal search warrants.” Thibault allegedly also violated FBI guidelines by ordering the matter closed without a valid reason. Thibault and other FBI officials then covered these tracks, attempting “to improperly mark the matter in FBI systems so that it could not be opened in the future.”
Making matters worse - if that’s possible - we also learned from Grassley’s letter that FBI SIA ( Supervisory Intelligence Analyst) Brian Auten was handling aspects of the Hunter Biden investigation. Who is Brian Auten? He interviewed Igor Danchenko (Christopher Steele’s primary subsource), who now faces an upcoming trial with Special Counsel John Durham for lying to federal officials.
We suspect that Auten covered-up or otherwise smothered Danchenko’s lies to protect the Trump/Russia investigation (and to thus also protect the FBI’s institutional interests). Our friend Stephen McIntyre – aka ClimateAudit – has focused on Auten in the past; here’s his Auten rabbit hole. The fact that Auten is in any way involved in the Hunter Biden investigation is not a good sign, and it indicates the FBI has failed to punish its most corrupt and incompetent employees.
The letter from Grassley comes after CNN reporting on July 20 that:
The federal investigation into Hunter Biden’s business activities is nearing a critical juncture as investigators weigh possible charges and prosecutors confront Justice Department guidelines to generally avoid bringing politically sensitive cases close to an election, according to people briefed on the matter.
There are some clues in the CNN report that suggest members of Biden’s DOJ are trying to serve President Biden by protecting his son.
First, current DOJ officials – including those at DOJ headquarters – have debated whether prosecution of Hunter Biden for tax and firearm charges should be put-off until after the 2022 midterms. But as CNN observes, federal prosecutors have brought politically-charged cases against Trump attorney Michael Cohen and Republican Congressman Chris Collins just before the 2018 election.
Second, this suggests that there is at least some supervision of the Hunter Biden investigation by top-level DOJ officials appointed by Biden. CNN reports that the investigation has entered its final stages and that “prosecutors have narrowed their focus to tax and gun-related charges.”
If Hunter Biden is indeed charged with those “narrow” crimes, it’s going to be essential to determine who made that call. After all, there is more than enough evidence to charge Hunter Biden with violating the Foreign Agent Registration Act. (Bijan Rafiekian, of the Flynn Intel Group, faced similar charges for far-less egregious conduct.) Recall previous New York Times reporting that:
there has been debate within the Justice Department over whether the available evidence proves that Mr. Biden intended to violate FARA, which the government must prove in order to secure a criminal conviction.
As we have observed, this misstates the law on FARA. One must ask whether the DOJ is making it intentionally difficult to prosecute Hunter Biden for his FARA violations and his schemes to enrich himself, and to manipulate his political connections, as he furthered the interests of his foreign clients.
This gives us another question: who is making these prosecuting decisions – is it the career prosecutors, or is it Main Justice?
If Hunter Biden escapes the FARA charges, or if he isn’t indicted before the upcoming elections, I think we can safely assume Main Justice is pulling some strings. And that’s a scandal in its own right.
Posting below is some additional info regarding the FBI whistleblowers article by TechnoFog, glad you posted it now I don’t have to:
FBI Whistleblowers Allege FBI Scheme to Protect Hunter Biden and Joe Biden
And - is Main Justice controlling the Hunter Biden prosecution decisions?
https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/4080108/posts?page=1368#1368
https://t.me/s/drawandstrikechannel
Senator Grassley:
“[FBI Agents investigating Hunter Biden] opened an assessment which was used by an FBI headquarters team to improperly discredit negative Hunter Biden information as disinformation and caused investigative activity to cease,”
Grassley’s office has received “a significant number of protected communications from highly credible whistleblowers”
“verified and verifiable derogatory information on Hunter Biden was falsely labeled as disinformation.”
https://twitter.com/15poundstogo/status/1551659416851812354?s=20&t=UhH9WiHI3Ee9xGhSFTAL6Q
Trust Grassley.
He’s opening the ball.
Corrupt FBI personnel worked to label legitimate evidence of Hunter Biden crimes as ‘disinformation’.
And he ties these corrupt FBI officials directly to Pelosi and Schumer.
Grassley is making a clear distinction between “FBI HQ” officials who were determined to label all derogatory Hunter Biden evidence as “disinformation” and the rank and file FBI agents handling the handling a criminal investigation of Biden.
He is saying the FBI HQ officials made direct efforts to improperly influence the lower level FBI personnel into saying the Hunter Biden evidence they had collected was “disinformation”.
But all that evidence had been collected via verified criminal search warrants.
Grassley’s office was approached by several whistleblowers who have provided evidence of this direct influence operation by FBI HQ officials to label legitimate and real evidence of Biden crimes as “disinformation”.
He’s letting AG Garland and Wray know this at this point because I suspect there’s nothing they can do to stop what’s coming.
Grassley’s stunning and revelatory letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland and FBI Director Christopher Wray, can be read in it’s entirety HERE:
https://www.scribd.com/document/584114450/Grassley-to-Garland-and-Wray-Hunter-Biden-July-25-2022
Everybody who undertook that mission of discrediting the Hunter Biden laptop as ‘Russian disinformation’ is going to regret it.
Everybody knew all along this evidence was real.
The people insisting it was disinformation were lying. And we knew they were lying.
The media people who hyped the ‘disinformation’ claim had to retract it months ago.
But now all the chickens are coming home to roost for those at the FBI and the DOJ who pushed that false narrative before the 2020 election.
Circle August 8 on your calendars.
As the whistleblowers continue to come forward and give Grassley evidence, imagine what fun we’re all going to have watching these people squirm as what they continues to be fully exposed.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/news-media-that-conspired-to-dismiss-biden-laptop-scandal-as-russian-disinformation-are-now-trapped_3778293.html
Durham drops 30 trial subpoenas.
All of a sudden Just The News ‘stumbles’ over Meadow’s memo at the National Archives ‘proving’ the DOJ hid key RussiaGate declasses for 2 years.
NOW THIS.
You know Durham has been intimiately investigating how Auten and Thibeaul
It’s not coming up as an issue and Grassley is not throwing a massive spotlight on it unless he got the signal from Durham “OK...unleash Hell!”
None of this stuff is really new. SpyGate researchers have known about most of this for years.
Meadow’s memo was not classified. It’s been sitting in the National Archives waiting to play it’s role. Somebody sent Just The News to go fetch it and publicize it now.
While I didn’t know Auten and Thibault’s names until recently, the roles these FBI HQ officials played in the FISA warrant and their Danchenko interview activities was known since Inspector Horowitz’s 2019 FISA Abuse report was released.
But somebody is throwing a spotlight on it now for some reason.
I suspect Durham’s investigation has reached a stage that a very public Congressional inquiry into this based on revelations from whistleblowers won’t compromise any of his cases.
If these whistleblowers are being allowed to speak to members of Congress, I’m thinking that means they’ve already testified to grand juries as part of Durham’s probe.
A Durham related article, many images at link, click to see ‘um.
https://briancates.substack.com/p/did-the-doj-hide-key-russiagate-scandal
Did the DOJ Hide Key RussiaGate Scandal Documents From Durham For Almost 2 Years?
This Seems To Be The Narrative Many Are Instantly Adopting - But It Likely Isn’t True
Brian Cates
Jul 23
John Solomon and his website Just The News has been doing stellar work covering recent events, including the Durham Special Counsel’s investigation.
Which makes this story right here exceedingly strange.
Solomon writes:
In the final hours of the Trump presidency, the U.S. Justice Department raised privacy concerns to thwart the release of hundreds of pages of documents that Donald Trump had declassified to expose FBI abuses during the Russia collusion probe, and the agency then defied a subsequent order to release the materials after redactions were made, according to interviews and documents.
The previously untold story of how highly anticipated declassified material never became public is contained in a memo obtained by Just the News from the National Archives that was written by then-White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows just hours before Trump left office on noon of Jan. 20, 2021.
The claim is Donald J. Trump declassified a binder full of key documents related to the RussiaGate scandal and ordered the DOJ to make those documents immediately available to the public. Former Trump White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows wrote a memo for the record about the required public disclosure of these declassified documents.
This supposedly happened just as Trump was leaving office in January of 2021.
Now, at this late date, somebody from Just The News just happens to stumble over the Meadows memo at the National Archives showing the Department of Justice defied a direct Presidential order to publicly release these newly declassified RussiaGate documents to the US Congress, the news media, and by extension, the American public.
A media narrative quickly began forming that Attorney General William Barr ordered these documents to be held back and not publicly released, stabbing Trump in the back on his way out the door.
And since Barr had just secretly designated Durham as an official Special Counsel in October [Congress was not alerted that this happened until receiving a letter from Barr in December], you’re being asked to believe that Barr then turned around and sandbagged Durham by ordering these newly declassified RussiaGate documents to be hidden from the Special Counsel’s Office as well as from the public.
This is a nonsensical narrative for several reasons.
Let me remind everyone that Barr resigned as the US Attorney General in December of 2020. He was gone from the DOJ by the time Trump supposedly did this declassification discussed in Meadow’s memo. Jeff Rosen was the Acting Attorney General from December 23rd until Merrick Garland could be sworn in the following April.
Here’s one thing Solomon and others in their coverage of story seem to be determined to avoid:
This declassification of these key RussiaGate documents **had to have been done** to assist the Durham Special Counsel in it’s already-ongoing investigation of the RussiaGate scandal.
That is the only narrative that makes sense.
All classified evidence must be declassified before it can be presented to a grand jury. Let me explain why that is.
Why classified evidence has to be declassified before being presented to a grand jury.
To pursue criminal investigations using federal grand juries, either a US Attorney or a Special Counsel is appointed. If you were going to try to run **still classified evidence** through the grand jury system, you are facing an insurmountable host of problems.
You would literally be faced with having to give top secret security clearances to all involved. That means:
All the prosecutors handling the evidence.
Every member of the grand jury and their alternates who see the evidence
The witnesses subpoenaed to appear and answer questions about the evidence
Many of these witnesses subpoenaed to appear against their will may or may not be allowed to have their legal counsel present during their questioning by the grand jury. If defense counsel is allowed to be present, they are limited to consulting with their client at any time, but only that. They may not object or challenge any of the procedures; they can only consult with the client as how to best answer the questions put to them.
All grand jury proceedings are transcribed. That means the court reporter is hearing and writing down classified information.
So you begin to see why running highly classified national security documents through the federal grand jury system would be problematic, if not impossible.
This is why even though Durham and some of his prosecution team may have been given the prerequisite national security clearances to see the classified documentation, before they can present that evidence to a grand jury to pursue cases against targets, that evidence is going to have to be declassified before they can bring it into a courtroom.
Durham Would Get It First And Nobody Else Until He Says So
And if these key RussiaGate documents were in fact declassified and given to a Special Counsel’s Office already hip-deep in a then 2 year long probe of the RussiaGate scandal, the idea this same evidence would be simultaneously handed to the news media or the US Congress while Durham was still investigating is simply ludicrous.
Key evidence in on-going criminal cases by a Special Counsel’s Office are most certainly **not** simultaneously shared with the drunken leakers of Congress or the Fake News Media. I have to explain this yet again?
The fact the Solomon story at Just The News is a red herring disinformation story is revealed by one fact: nowhere in the article does Durham’s name or his Special Counsel investigation get even one mention. It’s like Solomon completely forgot Durham exists.
As I said on Telegram the day the news broke:
How amazing is it that Durham and his Special Counsel’s Office, which has been investigating this very SpyGate issue for going on 3 years now isn’t mentioned even one time in this article?
An investigation that’s returned 3 indictments thus far and is getting ready for it’s 2nd trial?
It’s like the Sherlock Holmes story where the dog not barking was the clue.
All the chatter in the article is about getting these SpyGate declassified documents to the Congress, getting them to the news media, getting them to the American public.
Why does nobody chatter about maybe, oh I don’t know, I’m just spit-balling here, getting them to the DURHAM SPECIAL COUNSELS OFFICE?
Because that would make it too obvious. People would figure out Durham already had all this stuff long ago.
He’s given the green light to go public with it.
Another weird thing about this story that nobody is bringing up: Meadows zips his lip and waits almost 2 full years until his memo is suddenly found inside the National Archives by Just The News in order to find his tongue and speak up? He couldn’t have done that at any time since Trump left office in January 2021?
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And what about Trump himself? There certainly are plenty of statements he’s made about having done a full declassification of all the RussiaGate scandal documents, but I don’t recall him ever once saying “and the DOJ is refusing to make them public, as I ordered them to do!”
We had recent public drama with the National Archives sending agents to seize documents at Trump’s Mar-A-Lago resort because the documents were supposedly still classified, something that both Trump and Kash Patel strongly dispute.
And now a memo surfaces at the National Archives in which Meadows was reminding the DOJ that President Trump wanted these newly declassified RussiaGate scandal documents publicly released as fast as possible. Which meant rushing them out to the US Congress and the news media.
Was the Meadows Memo one of the documents seized from Mar-A-Lago and did Kash Patel play any role in Just The News suddenly finding it so this issue could be raised?
The main thing is both stories, the Mar-A-Lago seizure and now the Meadows memo, have kept the issue of RussiaGate in front of the public, with the theme being there’s key evidence still coming that hasn’t been disclosed yet.
No Disclosures Until Durham Says So
I certainly understand some people are upset that they had to wait 2 years to find out Trump did this declassification of key RussiaGate evidence but the public still hasn’t been able to see any of it yet.
Let me make this clear: I’m all for declassification and public disclosure of any RussiaGate scandal information - with one emphatic exception.
If such a disclosure would impede, compromise, sabotage or undermine any of the cases presently being pursued by the Durham Special Counsel’s Office.
Yes, I know there’s a popular narrative that there are no further indictments coming from Durham, and that after he watches a Virginia jury let Danchenko walk exactly the same way the DC jury let Sussmann go, Durham’s going to pack it in and go home.
As I discussed with Dave at X22 Report in my recent interview, not only are more indictments coming from Durham, I’m pretty sure who will be targeted by these new indictments when they are unsealed.
So since Durham was still building his cases back in January 2021, it’s no mystery to me at all where the newly declassified RussiaGate evidence ended up.
And if the Meadows memo is being produced now, and Meadows is suddenly finding his voice about that declassification, after zipping his lip for two years, this is strong circumstantial evidence that Durham has at last agreed making this stuff public at this juncture will not damage his investigation or prosecutions.
Who Gets Indicted Next?
Durham’s made it clear he’s working his way up the chain of the criminal ‘joint venture’ by starting with the ground level private contractors who did most of the grunt work in stealing classified federal data and assembling it into two specific Trump/Russia collusion hoaxes.
Those two hoaxes were The Alfa Bank Hoax and the Steele Dossier Hoax.
Data stolen off of federal databases regarding 7 specifically targeted individuals in Trump’s circle of acquaintances as well as data stolen directly out of the Executive Office of the President in January 2021 were used in both hoaxes. Durham will prove this.
Those seven individuals specifically targeted by the federal contractor network using it’s access to federal databases to spy privately on the side for Hillary Clinton’s campaign are believed to have been:
Candidate/President-elect/President Donald J. Trump
General Michael Flynn
Carter Page
George Papadopoulos
Michael Cohen
Steve Bannon
Paul Manafort
The private contractors hired by the Clinton campaign to construct these two hoaxes who haven’t been indicted by Durham yet are:
Marc Elias of Perkins Coie
Christopher Steele of Fusion GPS
Glenn Simpson of Fusion GPS
Nellie Ohr of Fusion GPS
Peter Fritsch of Fusion GPS
Rodney Joffe of Neustar
The Georgia Technical researchers, of whom there are three: David Dagon, Manos Antonakakis and April Lorenzen.
So Durham’s next indictments are very likely to be several, if not all, of these remaining private contractors.
Watch The Danchenko Court Filings Carefully
How many more filings would Durham need to make in order to lay out the ‘joint venture’ that the Clinton campaign launched via it’s operatives at Fusion, Perkins Coie, and Neustar/GT to create the Alfa Bank Hoax? None that I can see. He’s pretty much got it all out there. The role each of the contractors played in the Alfa Bank Hoax has been fully exposed.
That brings us to the Steele Dossier. Because there’s still plenty waiting to be revealed when it comes to **that** particular Clinton Campaign cooridnated Trump/Russia collusion hoax.
Either in his filings in the next two months leading up to Danchenko’s October trial, or during the trial itself, Durham will repeat the same pattern he did in the Sussman case, revealing many key previously unknown details about how the Steele Dossier was concocted.
Sure, as with Sussmann, Danchenko is being charged only with making false statements to federal officials. But it should be clear by now what Durham is doing: he’s using the most minor charges the private contractors are facing to reveal an awful lot about how the Clinton campaign’s criminal joint venture worked, the nuts-and-bolts details of the crimes.
Remember how Durham didn’t leak that long-time Clinton family associate Chuck Dolan was a key dossier source. Danchenko was so determined to steer the FBI away from Dolan as a dossier source that he ended up repeatedly lying to federal agents during multiple interviews.
And then Durham successfully hid the Clinton cyber-spying network active inside the White House itself until he was ready to reveal it in his own court filings.
How do you keep any of this key stuff from leaking over a 5 year period? I think the answer to that is simple. You put John Durham in charge.
And you can quote me on that.
Special counsel John Durham is seen.
“Excuse me, sir? Isn’t it time you started leaking some of the key evidence in the cases that you’re…!” “WHAT ARE YOU A F***ING COMEDIAN NOW?!”