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.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/06/update-chris-wray-did-not-admit-fbi-had/
UPDATE: Chris Wray Did Not Admit FBI Had Damning Biden China Bribery Document – Until James Comer Notified Him He Already Had Seen the Filing (VIDEO)
Chairman James Comer: He offered us the opportunity to come look at it in a private SKIF but he was going to redact it. My experience with getting documents from the FBI, when they’re redacted it’s all black lines. They don’t show you anything. But I’m going to say on this show. What we told Director Ray, what Senator Grassley told Director Ray, is he and I have already seen the 1023 form. We knew what was in the 1023 form. Until we told Director Ray that he never even admitted that the form existed.
So the level of confidence that we have with Director Wray only went down, it only declined throughout the conversation. So we will go there and look at the Redacted document but we know what’s in the document and the reason we find this allegation credible not only because of the credibility of the whistleblower but because we’ve seen a pattern of Joe Biden when he was vice president, leaving a country after he talks about foreign aid and foreign policy and his family members start receiving payments from that company through shell companies that are then laundered down to Biden family members. So there is a pattern of behavior and we saw that in Romania, we’ve seen that in China, we’ve seen that in other countries that would suggest that this allegation has merit. Look, the Durham report proved that the FBI has lots of issues. We brought that up.
Senator Grassley and I reminded Director Ray that the Durham report was devastating to the credibility of the FBI and his response was that that all happened before he became FBI director. Director Ray, to be clear, will now face contempt of Congress unless he produces this document like we asked this unclassified document by Tuesday or Wednesday whenever we have the markup.
It won’t be totally black. There will be a few words left, like and, the, of, screw, man, boy, you, etc., but not in order, lest you be able to have any idea what it says. Wray will shrug his shoulders and explain for 2 years that he has to protect sources and it is an ongoing investigation (until Biden falls again and cracks his pumpkin for good)..
My thoughts exactly!
Wray was just buying time to either fabricate the documents, lose the documents, or completely blacken the sheet citing “we can’t show this because super double dog secrecy”
Wray will bring a heavily redacted document that will hinder The House Committee’s
ability to investigate.
If the document is redacted, proceed with contempt of Wray.
In truth I think some of our guys have seen the document ( perhaps photo copies) Will be real interesting if they don’t match what they have already seen.
See my post #41. As I predicted a few days ago, Comer has already seen the document, which was provided by the whistleblower. Now Comer must compare the official version provided by Wray with the one provided by the whistleblower.
Once Wray was confronted with the information that Comer and Grassley had already seen the document, Wray was left with no choice but to provide it. The redactions will be telling.
Thanks for that! First I had seen of it!
What's needed is a perp walk.
Russia.
“I wouldn’t declare victory just yet.
Wrey will likely hand over a blacked out doc.
Which is.. in itself.. odd because it isn’t a classified doc.”
Comer said they’ve already seen the document and know what any redacted parts would be hiding. I guess this is different from officially producing the document.
Probably is North Korea. I vaguely recall one of the Hong Kong associates of the Biden’s has his hand in a lot of Nork biz deals.
“FD-1023”
Was one created when Trump was accused of having Russian spies on his team or when he p*ssed on prostitutes in a Russian hotel room or when impeachment proceedings against him were implemented?
Or Michael Flynn?
Please feel free to add more to this thread.
N.Korea was who I thought of first but couldn’t find that he ever traveled there.
They have had plenty of time to sanitize the docs. In fact, don’t be surprised if they magically prove Biden is completely innocent of any wrongdoing
They replaced the name Biden with Trump. It’s all good.
Monday.
When you are in a position of power, and dealing with a recalcitrant organization, You Don’t Allow Then Wiggle Room.
The document should be in Congress hands today.
An entire weekend? Something will come up and then they will need more time.
Comer needs to see the official document provided by Wray to verify the whistleblower’s copy. And he needs the imprimatur of an official document to pursue impeachment.
Why hasn’t the whistleblower gone straight to Congress at this point?
Are they in hiding, or already dead?
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