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‘Highly Credible’ Source Reveals Scandal Bigger Than Biden Bribery: FBI Election Interference
The Federalist ^ | 06/05/2023 | Margot Cleveland

Posted on 06/05/2023 9:42:44 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

More important to America’s future than unearthing Biden family corruption is uncovering corrupt bureaucrats who violate the rule of law.

The confidential human source (CHS) behind the detailed allegations that then-Vice President Joe Biden agreed to accept money from a foreign national to affect policy decisions was reportedly “highly credible” and used by the FBI in multiple criminal investigations dating back to the Obama administration. Friday’s exclusive by Fox News provides further insight into Sen. Chuck Grassley’s focus on the FBI — as opposed to the Biden family — as the primary scandal in play.

“We aren’t interested in whether or not the accusations against [then]-Vice President Biden are accurate,” Grassley said during an interview last week discussing FBI Director Christopher Wray’s refusal to comply with the congressional subpoena issued for the FD-1023 form. That form, dated June 30, 2020, included detailed information from a CHS to the FBI regarding an agreement by now-President Biden to deliver preferred foreign policy positions for a $5 million payment.

After Grassley revealed he had already seen the FD-1023, Fox News’ Bill Hemmer queried: “How damning is this document to the sitting U.S. president?”

“I don’t know,” responded Grassley, a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee. He stressed that while “there’s accusations” in the FBI report, the congressional oversight committees’ concern is whether “the FBI does its job.” “That’s what we want to know,” he continued.

Friday’s revelation that the CHS was “highly credible” and had served as a source in multiple prior criminal investigations — including ones run under the Obama-Biden administration — proves Grassley is properly focused on the FBI.

Yes, the CHS’s allegations offer more evidence of a Biden family pay-to-play scandal, and unraveling any criminal conduct by the Biden family remains important. But more significant to the future of our country is uncovering government actors responsible for violating the rule of law: America can survive select injustices, but it cannot withstand a corrupt bureaucracy that obstructs justice and interferes in elections.

Yet that is precisely what occurred, according to the whistleblower. He claimed that “in August 2020, FBI Supervisory Intelligence Analyst Brian Auten opened an assessment which was used by a FBI Headquarters’ team to improperly discredit negative Hunter Biden information as disinformation and caused investigative activity to cease.” The whistleblower further alleged that the FBI HQ team that handled the Auten assessment, after concluding the reporting was disinformation, placed the information in a restricted access sub-file that only the particular agents who uncovered the CHS’s information could access.

Now knowing the CHS behind the FD-1023 was not just “trusted,” as Grassley had previously indicated, but “highly credible,” and relied upon in multiple criminal cases dating back to the last time Biden worked for the executive branch, makes the whistleblower’s accusations even more damning because those additional facts mean the agents had reason to believe the buried accusations were true.

Not only does this evidence suggest FBI headquarters obstructed justice, but the date of the CHS’s report indicates those responsible for misbranding the intel as disinformation sought to interfere in the 2020 election.

As Grassley’s colleague in the House, James Comer, revealed, the CHS report was dated June 30, 2020, and while the allegations against candidate Biden came from a “highly credible” CHS, the FBI closed them. According to the whistleblower, FBI headquarters closed out the source even though some of the allegations had already been verified and other details could have been verified.

In contrast, when the bureau received a vague tip from an Australian diplomat of unknown veracity that a low-level Trump volunteer had claimed the Russians possessed dirt on Hillary Clinton, within days FBI headquarters opened an investigation into the Trump campaign.

John Durham’s special counsel report recently lay bare the impropriety of the FBI’s targeting of the Trump campaign based on unverified gossip from an unvetted source. Grassley is now highlighting the converse: the FBI’s improper branding of evidence from a “highly credible” CHS as disinformation to protect the Democrat candidate for president.

This evidence of continuing political bias at the FBI is Grassley’s primary concern, prompting him to call for a “change in the culture.” That change will be a long time coming, however, given that Wray resisted the subpoena and appears poised to fight Grassley and congressional oversight committees every step of the way.


Margot Cleveland is The Federalist's senior legal correspondent. She is also a contributor to National Review Online, the Washington Examiner, Aleteia, and Townhall.com, and has been published in the Wall Street Journal and USA Today.

Cleveland is a lawyer and a graduate of the Notre Dame Law School, where she earned the Hoynes Prize—the law school’s highest honor. She later served for nearly 25 years as a permanent law clerk for a federal appellate judge on the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals. Cleveland is a former full-time university faculty member and now teaches as an adjunct from time to time.



TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: biden; bidencrimefamily; brianauten; bribes; comer; crimefamily; deepstate; doj; donutwatch; election; electionfraud2016; electionfraud2020; fbi; fbiakastasi; fedmob; grassley; interference; scandal
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1 posted on 06/05/2023 9:42:44 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

We have no law enforcement.
We have no elections.
We have criminals running the government.

The storm is coming.


2 posted on 06/05/2023 9:46:52 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (“You want it one way, but it's the other way”)
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To: SeekAndFind

Wanna see my shocked face? It wouldn’t surprise me if Barr is knee deep in this crap.


3 posted on 06/05/2023 9:47:28 AM PDT by VTenigma (Conspiracy theory is the new "spoiler alert")
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To: SeekAndFind

we are all knee deep in this crap and it will take a lot of effort to clean it up... but it will only get worse, the longer we wait.


4 posted on 06/05/2023 9:52:07 AM PDT by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world or something )
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To: SeekAndFind

Did the FBI meddle in elections starting with 2016? Yes. That means that absolutely nothing will be done about it because the FBI will stonewall, the Dems will protect them and a large chunk of the GOP elected officials still foolishly support them.


5 posted on 06/05/2023 9:52:19 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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To: SeekAndFind

It is time to dissolve the FBI and start over. Prosecute the associated administrators if necessary.


6 posted on 06/05/2023 9:54:49 AM PDT by chopperk ( C)
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To: VTenigma

“Wanna see my shocked face? It wouldn’t surprise me if Barr is knee deep in this crap.”

I am thinking with Barr, is that it may be deeper than just the knee.


7 posted on 06/05/2023 9:55:11 AM PDT by Pete Dovgan
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To: ClearCase_guy
These reports mean nothing anymore....there is no national will of the people to do anything about it...certainly not our representatives who do nothing other than talk.
8 posted on 06/05/2023 9:55:28 AM PDT by caww (O death, when you seized my Lord, you lost your grip on me......)
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To: VTenigma

Barr’s role was to crush any effort to investigate or even expose the steal. He waited until the final days to leave so it would to late to do anything about the stolen election


9 posted on 06/05/2023 9:56:02 AM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: SeekAndFind

Chris Wray flips off America.

He has a plane to catch.


10 posted on 06/05/2023 9:57:07 AM PDT by csvset (tolerance becomes a crime when attached to evil)
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To: SeekAndFind

political persecution at the highest level

my question is why cant it ever be against the dems?


11 posted on 06/05/2023 9:58:24 AM PDT by joshua c (to disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives, cut the cable tv)
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‘Highly Credible’ Source Reveals Scandal Bigger Than Biden Bribery: FBI Election Interference

ALL of this has been KNOWN and OBVIOUS to many an everyday American for sometime now.

The QUESTION that REMAINS is... WILL ANYONE ever be INDICTED, PROSECUTED, and HELD RESPONSIBLE for it?

In case you're wondering.. it's just another rhetorical statement!

12 posted on 06/05/2023 9:59:27 AM PDT by VideoDoctor
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To: SeekAndFind

The GOP can’t form a coherent argument outlining an obvious coup against the Trump administration involving the deep state.

The press and the Democrats are not going to do it...


13 posted on 06/05/2023 9:59:58 AM PDT by LongWayHome
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To: SeekAndFind

Nothing will happen. We lost the Republic when the three tier just-us system evolved.


14 posted on 06/05/2023 10:02:55 AM PDT by OpusatFR
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To: LongWayHome

not can’t, they won’t because they’re in on it as well


15 posted on 06/05/2023 10:07:26 AM PDT by Jeff Vader ( )
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To: SeekAndFind

Crime, not scandal. When the guilty parties are confined to prison, the country will be on the way to becoming great again.


16 posted on 06/05/2023 10:16:47 AM PDT by I want the USA back (A man is not a woman. A woman is not a man. There is no in-between or undefined middle. )
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To: Jeff Vader; LongWayHome
"not can’t, they won’t " that's what I was thinking, not can't but .... ......... WON"T How do you like that font size.... another FReeper showed me that yesterday and I have been hunting for a spot to use it. 8-0
17 posted on 06/05/2023 10:18:11 AM PDT by 1of10 (be vigilant , be strong, be safe, be 1 of 10 .)
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To: SeekAndFind

Yes and FBI intends to install next president too.

This thing no longer works.


18 posted on 06/05/2023 10:18:40 AM PDT by FlyingEagle
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To: SeekAndFind

It’s not a question of crime, it’s how many crimes. The problem is, there is no question about whether or not anything will be prosecuted, we’ve seen this movie and know the ending.


19 posted on 06/05/2023 10:20:43 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: SeekAndFind

Americans should evaluate the best methods to prevent crime. A crime not committed is not a crime at all. It is common sense to remove criminals from the opportunities to commit crimes. That’s often done by sending them to prison, but there are other methods. For instance, the criminals in the DOJ and FBI can be removed from government so they lack the opportunity to commit more crimes. Defund the DOJ and FBI. Shutter them. Throw in the ATF and we have a good start.


20 posted on 06/05/2023 10:21:34 AM PDT by ConservativeInPA ("How did you go bankrupt?” Bill asked. "Two ways," Mike said. "Gradually and then suddenly." )
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