Posted on 06/12/2023 3:41:44 PM PDT by M. Thatcher
Last week, I came to the Senate Floor to give a speech about the Biden Justice Department and FBI playing games with the American people by hiding the FBI-generated 1023 document from Congress.
Director Wray was going to be held in contempt for refusing to produce the 1023 that I told Chairman Comer about. Then, instead of contempt, the FBI committed to showing the 1023 and related documents to Congress.
So, the FBI showed but didn’t provide possession of that 1023 to the House Oversight Committee last week.
As the public knows that 1023 involves an alleged bribery scheme between then-Vice President Biden, Hunter Biden and a foreign national. The same allegations that Chairman Comer and I made public on May 3 of this year.
And on the same day that the FBI provided a redacted version of the 1023 to the House Oversight Committee, the Justice Department announced that former President Trump had been indicted and charged with 37 crimes relating to his alleged mishandling of classified records.
Attorney General Garland signed off on prosecuting Trump for conduct similar to what Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton engaged in. Two standards of justice in this country will turn our constitutional Republic upside down. Thanks to the political infection within the Biden Justice Department and FBI, we’re well along the road for that to happen.
This senator will do all that he can to fight that political infection. And you fight it by bringing transparency to what the government does. The public’s business ought to be public. Transparency brings accountability.
With respect to the 1023 shown to that House Committee, from what I’ve been told by folks who’ve reviewed it, it’s filled with redactions. So, Director Wray placed redactions on a document that’s already unclassified.
More than that, the FBI made Congress review a redacted unclassified document in a classified facility. That goes to show you the disrespect the FBI has for Congress. On a previous time on the Senate Floor, I asked my fellow senators what’s so unusual about an unclassified document being given to the public, when on May 18 of this year, there was leaked to the New York Times a classified document and even the name of a confidential human source. So, we’re kind of in a strange situation here. A classified document can be leaked to the New York Times, but an unclassified document can’t be made public to 300 million Americans.
Accordingly, Congress still lacks a full and complete picture with respect to what that document really says. That’s why it’s important that the document be made public without unnecessary redactions for the American people to see.
Let me assist for purposes of transparency.
The 1023 produced to that House Committee redacted reference that the foreign national who allegedly bribed Joe and Hunter Biden allegedly has audio recordings of his conversations with them. Seventeen total recordings.
According to the 1023, the foreign national possesses fifteen audio recordings of phone calls between him and Hunter Biden. According to the 1023, the foreign national possesses two audio recordings of phone calls between him and then-Vice President Joe Biden. These recordings were allegedly kept as a sort of insurance policy for the foreign national in case he got into a tight spot. The 1023 also indicates that then-Vice President Joe Biden may have been involved in Burisma employing Hunter Biden.
So, as I’ve repeatedly asked since going public with the existence of the 1023, what, if anything, has the Justice Department and FBI done to investigate?
The Justice Department and FBI must show their work. They no longer deserve the benefit of the doubt. It’s clear that the Justice Department and FBI will use every resource to investigate candidate Trump, President Trump and former President Trump.
Based on the facts known to Congress and the public, it’s clear that the Justice Department and FBI will use every resource to investigate candidate Trump, President Trump and former President Trump. Based on the facts known to Congress and the public, it’s clear that the Justice Department and FBI haven’t nearly had the same laser focus on the Biden family.
Special Counsel Jack Smith has used a recording against former President Trump. Well, what’s U.S. Attorney Weiss doing with respect to these alleged Joe and Hunter Biden recordings that are apparently relevant to a high-stakes bribery scheme?
Getting a full and complete 1023 is critical for the American people to know and understand the true nature of the document and to hold the Justice Department and FBI accountable.
It’s also important for asserting constitutional congressional oversight powers against an out-of-control Executive Branch drunk with political infection. Remember, Congress has received 1023’s in the past and they’ve been made public. So asking for this 1023 to be turned over to the American people to read is not unusual.
Congress owes it to the American people and the brave and heroic whistleblowers to continue to fight for transparency in this matter and make this document public without unnecessary redactions.
I want everyone to remember, that I have read the unredacted version.
The FBI and truth and justice have not been acquainted with each other in a long time.
They obviously have a copy of the document, they just wanted to see the original to make sure that what they had is real. Now that they see that the copy they have is real, they should go ahead and publish the entire document, it’s not a classified document. Let the American people just how big a bunch of crooks the Biden Crime FAmily is.
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Nice of Rip Van Grassley.
I think it’s preemptive to defend what he and Graham had for five years, and sat on.
The FBI works for Biden. For intentionally withholding this information, they should be cited in contempt of Congress.
.@SpeakerMcCarthy threatened to hold Wray in contempt unless he turned over information from the Biden whistleblower.
Wray half assed it. He failed to disclose the part about the 17 recordings that implicate the Biden’s in a MASSIVE bribery scheme.
House Republicans need to drop the hammer.The DOJ is covering up Biden’s crimes while trying to arrest Trump over NONCRIMES.
TWO TIERED JUSTICE!— Alex Bruesewitz 🇺🇸 (@alexbruesewitz) June 12, 2023
The only information we got from the FBI about Hunter’s laptop, which they had, was that it was Russian disinformation.
The Administration is a big, incompetent fake, led by a doddering old liar who takes bribes.
The FBI works for Democrats.
Why did Comer cave?
Wray should be in contempt of congress, he failed to give the doc. as required.
What the hell is wrong with you Republicans?
They released all the security calls between Biden an poroshenko on YouTube too
This is the basis for President Trump’s “perfect phone call” with Zelenskyy.
So if Grassley is so great, when did he find out about this and why did he hold onto it ?
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It’s called setting up your opponent to find out what he fears the most and doesn’t want you to know. The redacted parts of the memo were obviously considered by Wray to be too damning to release even to Congress. When comparing the redacted portions to unredacted portions Grassley knows exactly what it is and why Wray was trying to hide it. We know nothing is going to happen but it’s great seeing Wray’s corrupt criminal state of mind.
Get a room.
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This demonstrates the crazy cave to allow the FBi to retain the Document, and set a precedent for the future with detailed records implicating Joe.
McCarthy thought it through.
Everything.
This is the basis for President Trump’s “perfect phone call” with Zelenskyy.
Yet this impeccable source did not give up the tapes when Trump was being impeached over this nonsense. Now why would that be?
Hopefully Comer or someone is taking over Grassley’s whistleblower position because he’s got Parkinson’s. Watch his hands.(not to mention slow speech)
https://twitter.com/ColumbiaBugle/status/1668374538885689346
Just re-elected in 2022 for a six year term and 90 years old this year? Better watch for a replacement senate seat as well.
Impeach Biden, Harris & Wray tomorrow.
Hopefully the Repukes are smart enough to weaponize this. Hold it until June 2024, then impeach based on it, impeachment investigations and vote in the house should be done by about late August, Early September 2024 where it will head to the Senate.
We are tired of having information withheld from us and being lied to and gaslighted. What the Biden administration is doing by targeting the front runner opponent to the President of the United States is beyond unethical, it’s blatantly criminal.
Along with our Southern border being practically nonexistent and all of the dangerous ramifications that go along with that, Joe Biden and Company have shown us, the American people, just what they really think of us.
We are bugs to them, doormats to wipe their dirty shoes on.
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