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.
Wow.
“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.”
In other words, we know there’s damning information in it, we’re being forced to disclose something, so let’s get ahead of the fallout by delegitimizing its contents.
Can you imagine if this were Trump?
Christopher Wray received memo from the party ?
Time for Harris to move up the ladder
Comer has seen the unsanitized version. He also has Biden Crime Family bank records that can be linked to the bribe allegations along with subpoena power to get more bank records, which could corroborate the receipt of the bribes. Any FBI coverup will have to deal with real evidence.
Good news in principle, and you’re right. They simply won’t do it, not by declared opposition, but just by dragging their heels.
Cuba?
You won’t see it. Wray is bringing it them and letting them “look” at it. He won’t let them copy it, or have the original. Congress can look at it, and then he will take it away.
Yesterday Comer said he saw the document. He said it’s not China Romania or Ukraine but is an adversary worse than China.
That’s what he told Rob Schmitt on NewsMax last night.
One of the problems is that the report contains Confidential Informant information. Somebody was brave enough to come forward with information on Biden. If congress learned who that was then they would quickly find out that the informant has been dead since the day he talked to the FBI.
Iran is my bet. Maybe North Korea
Congree should pass a rule or law regarding their subpoena power. If a sitting US Government official ignores a subpoena, then they will not receive their paychecks and/or their travel perks until they comply.
See post 12
What will happen:
1. Wray won’t let it out of his hands.
2. It will now be stamped, “TS-SCI” due to “National Security.”
3. As such, Wray will only let a select few actually see it, in a SCIF.
Yep
Not sure why they need Wrey to turn over the doc. Im sure they have a copy.
Unless this is to snag Wrey in his own trap?
Comer said he saw it.
If found in Contempt the person can be arrested under a warrant of the Speaker of the House of Representatives or President of the Senate, by the respective Sergeant at Arms.
=============================================================So, basically, we could do NOTHING until we got Speaker of the House, McCarthy. We had no power.
We all know it would have died in Pelousy’s hands.
No. Wray is still winning.
All Wray agreed to was to share the document with Comer and Grassely in a meeting with them, not release the document or copies to them. The FBI, with the document still only in their hands will continue to control and sonewall exactly what the document says.
Comer should say Wray’s terms are no enough and issue an arrest warrant for Wray.
Wray has a dozen excuses (”protecting sources” for not actually giver Comer the document.
They are just excuses. He just wants to keep control of the “official” narrative about the document and continue to protect the FBI for not pursuing real investigations against Biden.
Did Wray relent before or after Biden’s tumble at the AFA?
FBI said they couldn’t provide said document because it was part of an investigation. The document is from 2020—3 years ago. How long fo their investigations take?
How long did the FBI investigate Crossfire Hurricane after knowing that the Steele Dossier was fake?
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