Posted on 06/02/2023 6:17:24 AM PDT by Yo-Yo
FBI Director Christopher Wray was facing a potential contempt vote when the deal was struck.
Facing a potential contempt of Congress vote, FBI Director Christopher Wray relented and has agreed to bring a subpoenaed document from the Biden family investigation to Capitol Hill for lawmakers to inspect on Monday, House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer announced Friday.
The document in question, an FD-1023, contains uncorroborated allegations that an informant provided the FBI in June 2020 alleging that Joe Biden, when he was vice president, was engaged in a bribery scheme to change US policy in return for $5 million to his family’s businesses, lawmakers have said.
Congress was alerted to the document by an FBI whistleblower who raised concerns the allegations were never fully investigated. Comer and Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa demanded to see the document, and Comer followed with a subpoena.
As recently as Wednesday, Wray indicated he would not turn over the document in compliance with the subpoena, but would let lawmakers come read it at the FBI. But a deal was struck late Thursday for the FBI to bring the document to the Capitol, officials said.
“Chairman Comer will receive a briefing from the FBI and review the document on Monday,” his committee told Just the News in a statement. “Chairman Comer has been clear that anything short of producing the FD-1023 form to the House Oversight Committee is not compliance with his subpoena. This unclassified record contains pages of details that need to be investigated further by the House Oversight Committee.”
In a statement to Just the News, the FBI said it wanted to accommodate Congress while also protecting sensitive confidential human source information that often is recorded in memos even before it is corroborated.
“Director Wray offered to provide the Committee’s Chairman and Ranking Member an opportunity to review information responsive to the subpoena in a secure manner to accommodate the committee, while protecting the confidentiality and safety of sources and important investigative sensitivities,” the bureau said. “The FBI has continually demonstrated its commitment to working with the Committee to accommodate its request, from scheduling briefings and calls to now allowing the Chair to review information in person. The FBI remains committed to cooperating with the Committee in good faith.”
The bureau also cautioned that FD-1023 forms are “used by FBI agents to record unverified reporting by a confidential human source. Documenting the information does not validate it, establish its credibility, or weigh it against other information verified by the FBI.
“Revealing unverified or possibly incomplete information could harm investigations, prejudice prosecutions or judicial proceedings, unfairly violate privacy or reputations, create misimpressions in the public, or potentially identify individuals who provide information to law enforcement, placing their physical safety at risk,” it added.
“uncorroborated allegations”
This is why I quit trusting the news networks. When they accused Trump of Russian Collusion, it was that they had leaks corroborated such allegations, and that Trump was clearly guilty. The FBI and Media know full well, especially with the Hunter Biden laptop, and actually multiple whistle blowers, and people ‘in hiding’ with corroborating evidence that it’s real. They had absolutely NO problem creating an negative environment for Trump, including FISA warrants, but have covered for Joe Biden the entire time. Uncorroborated.....yea...that’s the ticket....that will fool the American public.
Wake me up when someone other than a Republican goes to jail.
Wray was playing chicken with an UNCLASSIFIED DOCUMENT! Honestly, all this over a NON-CLASSIFIED report? I mean, I could submit a FOIA for this form!!
Wray had zero, none, not one, not an iota of precedent to stand on that would allow him to avoid being held in contempt - PERIOD!
He had offered to let them see it at the FBI...but now he’s only offering to let them see it at congress. I think this means it won’t be made public and it won’t be an official record.
It’s late...move forward with the contempt charges. There’s no good reason to tolerate their games.
If this memo was about the Trump family, without being asked Wray would have been waving it around on TV years ago, and would have handed it over to WaPo, CNN, NYT, it would have literally been everywhere.
“Trust, but verify.” President Reagan was spot on with this statement.
I certainly share your concern and the similar concerns expressed here. But why would Wray even nominally back down? They can vote contempt but DOJ won’t prosecute a la Eric Holder.
Once it’s seen it can’t be unseen
Yeah but if it's not public record and they can't make copies or photos then the left will just say they're misrepresenting the memo...
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A "deal"?
What - you can have the document, but you can't show it to anyone?
Oh - no, no... you can have the document, but it will be solid black (redacted).
But we already knew that was coming, right?
I just read/saw that Wray gave up a $9 MILLION/year job at a law firm to become the FBI Director.
It makes me question WHY he would be willing to do this?
Was/is he financially independent(rich)?
We have had people give up very lucrative careers in the past to become the Secretary of the Treasury. Wall Street types/hedge fund managers that were called on by the newly elected POTUS to serve their country. However, that position is typically for a couple years. Four at the most. Then they go back to making millions in finance/banking, etc.
The FBI Director is a long term gig. Up to ten years. What was his motivation to give up such a lucrative position at a law firm for $186K government job?
Grassley said he had already seen the document unredacted.
No Comer blinked. It’s still being treated as a classified document, and will only be reviewed in the secure vault in the Capitol, under full control of Wray and his goons.
——contains uncorroborated allegations——
That would more truthfully and unspun “alleged uncorroborated allegations”
The propagandist Mr Soloman has no clue as to what corroboration the Congressman actually posses.
We’ll see
They haven’t yet
Probably locked safely in Joe’s garage
It’s not just one page,it’s many pages
You read my mind on this.
The Swamp exists only to protect itself.
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