Posted on 07/10/2023 9:46:22 AM PDT by george76
Grassley highlighted the numerous ways Delaware Assistant U.S. Attorney Lesley Wolf appeared to have obstructed the investigation into Hunter Biden’s potentially criminal business activities.
Delaware assistant U.S. attorney was briefed in October 2020 that a confidential human source (CHS) had reported Hunter and Joe Biden each received $5 million in bribes, Sen. Chuck Grassley revealed Sunday in a letter to Delaware U.S. Attorney David Weiss. A source familiar with that briefing has now confirmed to The Federalist that the Pittsburgh office told the Delaware office the CHS’s reporting appeared credible and merited further investigation. That added detail increases the significance of Grassley’s Sunday letter and his question to Weiss about whether his deputy thwarted the investigation.
“On October 23, 2020, Justice Department and FBI Special Agents from the Pittsburgh Field Office briefed Assistant U.S. Attorney Lesley Wolf, one of your top prosecutors, and FBI Special Agents from the Baltimore Field Office with respect to the contents of the FBI-generated FD-1023 alleging a criminal bribery scheme involving then-Vice President Biden and Hunter Biden,” Grassley’s letter said. “What steps have the Justice Department and FBI taken to investigate the allegations?” the Iowa senator asked before noting his concerns about Wolf’s involvement.
Grassley then highlighted the numerous ways Wolf appeared to have obstructed the investigation into Hunter Biden’s potentially criminal business activities. “IRS whistleblowers have affirmed that AUSA Wolf prevented investigators from seeking information about Joe Biden’s involvement in Hunter Biden’s criminal business arrangements,” Grassley said, adding that she also “frustrated investigative efforts” by the IRS agents to question Hunter Biden’s business partner, Rob Walker, about Joe Biden.
Wolf also refused to allow agents to search Joe Biden’s guest house, even though there was “more than enough probable cause,” and she prevented investigators from searching a storage unit used by the now-president’s son, the letter said. In fact, Grassley stressed, Wolf alerted Hunter Biden’s lawyers to the investigators’ interest in the storage unit.
Given what Grassley called Wolf’s “questionable and obstructive conduct,” he asked Weiss whether Wolf had taken “similar proactive measures to frustrate any investigation into the FD-1023.” Grassley also probed Weiss’s knowledge of the accusations leveled against Wolf and how he has handled them. From Grassley’s questions, he seems to believe Wolf knows whether the DOJ buried evidence that Joe and Hunter Biden received bribes from the Ukrainian oil and gas company Burisma.
Former Attorney General William Barr had previously confirmed that the FD-1023 summary of the CHS’s intel had been sent to the Delaware U.S. attorney’s office for further investigation, following then-Pittsburgh U.S. Attorney Scott Brady’s conclusion that the reporting was not Russian disinformation. Barr later also said the Delaware office had been briefed on the FD-1023 material. Until now, however, it was unclear who had received that information.
Knowing that Wolf and FBI special agents from the Baltimore field office received a briefing on the contents of the FD-1023 allows congressional oversight committees to probe precisely who investigated the CHS’s allegations and how — or if not, why. Did Wolf direct agents to disregard the FD-1023? Did anyone else? If so, why? Who was involved in the decision? Who knew of the decision?
While we do not know the answers to those questions yet, we do know from the Internal Revenue Service whistleblowers that they were not informed of the FD-1023. As Grassley noted in his letter, the IRS agents were excluded from the meeting with the Pittsburgh field office. We also know from the IRS whistleblowers’ congressional testimony and supplemental statements that they first learned of the FD-1023 when Barr publicly stated the information had been sent to Delaware for further investigation.
Who decided to exclude the IRS agents from the meeting? Who decided to keep them in the dark about the FD-1023 and the information contained in it? Was anyone from the Baltimore field office adequately skilled to investigate the CHS’s reporting? As members of the IRS’s International Tax and Financial Crimes group, both the IRS whistleblowers working with the Delaware U.S. attorney’s office were. So why were they cut out of the case?
Following the release of Grassley’s letter, a source familiar with the Delaware briefing told The Federalist that in addition to summarizing the contents of the FD-1023, the Pittsburgh office requested the FBI provide FD-1023 access to the Delaware U.S. attorney’s office and the agents out of the Baltimore field office working on the case. The Pittsburgh office also told Wolf and the FBI agents present during the briefing that the information contained in the FD-1023 bore indicia of credibility and they recommended it be further investigated.
But was it investigated? Grassley asked precisely that question to Weiss.
The Iowa senator also asked Weiss when he became aware of the October 2020 briefing and why the IRS agents were excluded from that meeting. Grassley further inquired of the Delaware U.S. attorney whether the scope of the “alleged ‘ongoing investigation’ include[s] criminal bribery with respect to the alleged criminal scheme between a foreign national and then-Vice President Biden and Hunter Biden?”
In posing these questions, Grassley noted that from information provided to his office, “potentially hundreds of Justice Department and FBI officials have had access to the FD-1023 at issue.” This comment proves intriguing because in an earlier letter, Grassley had noted that in August 2020, FBI Supervisory Intelligence Analyst Brian Auten had opened an assessment that FBI headquarters used in September 2020 to falsely label derogatory information about Hunter Biden as disinformation. According to Grassley’s letter, the FBI HQ team then “placed their findings with respect to whether reporting was disinformation in a restricted access sub-file reviewable only by the particular agents responsible for uncovering the specific information.”
Grassley’s recent comment suggests that contrary to the earlier assumption, it may have been other derogatory information labeled misinformation and not the FD-1023. Or possibly the FD-1023 had been at one time restricted and then made more broadly available.
But if it wasn’t the FD-1023 that Auten buried, that means there was even more derogatory information about Hunter Biden that the FBI failed to investigate. What was that information?
Grassley’s letter may raise more questions than it answers, but it also establishes the senator is nearing the end of the trail that leads to the individuals responsible for deciding to — or not to — investigate the FD-1023 and the allegations that the now-president of the United States accepted a $5 million bribe from a corrupt Ukrainian.
The corrupt press doesn’t care if democrats obstruct justice... they help with the process. They’ve got Lesley Wolf’s back.
And McConnell?….crickets! The guy is involved with the DC SWAMP and the criminal bidens up to his eye balls! Why do you think the silence from this POS. Can you say blackmail? He is china’s favorite US senator!!
Just for clarity sake, let me sum this up.
Joe Biden publicly brags that he withheld money from Ukraine until they fired the prosecutor who was investigating his Hunter employer for money laundering.
The Democrats in Congress and the Media then Investigate and Impeach Trump....
The Clinton’s say that Trump is in bed with Putin, and give evidence of ‘collusion’ via a Pee-Pee dossier and fake internet communications from Trump Tower.
The Democrats in Congress and the Media then Investigate Trump, get a special Council, and try to impeach him for ‘Russian Collusion’. Even though NOT a single piece of evidence to corroborate the claims can be made by the DOJ, FBI or CIA, they wiretap, accuse, and entrap multiple Trump political supporters for Russian Collusion.
At nearly the same time, Government whistleblowers, with actual evidence of a Vice President taking bribes (see Constitution on State department employees taking bribes—the term is Treason). This is ‘transferred’ to another department, prevented from being investigated, and we are told that it was labelled “Disinformation” by the DOJ.
Then, at nearly the same time, a laptop is turned in with information damaging and corroborating wrong doing by the Bidens. Initially, this laptop isn’t signed into evidence, and supposedly not looked at. Then it was labelled ‘Disinformation’ by the FBI/CIA after active government intelligence employees recruited former intelligence people to sign a public letter saying it was fake.
Then, shortly after, Trump’s home is raided for ‘classified’ information. Only to find out that it’s like less than 20 documents, intended for his library, out of boxes of news clippings, locked in a secure room, in a guarded house, inside a guarded compound. Later we find out that DOJ/FBI personel withheld documents from Judges and Grand Juries that demonstrated that Trump had complied with all government requests for access. In addition, they threatened and attempted to bribe witnesses lawyers to help the government position. Trump gets 45 counts against him in federal court.
We then discover, former Vice President has 19 BOXES (at least) of classified documents, some of which the information is linked to Hunter Biden’s laptop and emails to foreign governments. The DOJ, FBI refuse to pursue searches, even after credible whistle blowers, about the Biden’s and classified information leaks. Finally, the DOJ allows Biden’s lawyers to go through classified documents to see if they are classified, who have no security clearance.
At nearly the same time, we discover that the entire Nixon takedown was a CIA operation, with Watergate break in by CIA, likely ordered by CIA, and that the person leaking the information to the press to destroy Nixon, was CIA. We are also told that JFK was taken out by the CIA, or that they were ‘heavily involved’.
Yet, this entire time I am being told by Democrats that the law must apply to everyone.
Everyone but Democrats and the intelligence apparatus that supports them......
McConnell took as much $$$ from China as anyone. He’s totally compromised, 6 ways to Sunday.
Isn’t it time for the senators and the various house committees investigating Biden and the administration to be combined into one impeachment committee in the house.
The republicans are slow walking because they really don’t want to impeach him.
God Bless Grassley!!! He’s a pit bull, with his bone. He’ll never let go. Yet quiet, and very methodical.
He still chops his own wood at his cabin, iirc.
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This stuff was known 4-5 years ago.
Republican Senate protected Joe and Crackhead for 1,460 days.
Now, we see the GOP House taking the Slow Road (ask yourself why).
The thing is making it look like you want to get Joe while pulling him across the Finish line.
If Joe’s international influence sales and bribery isn’t Impeachable, then you can do away with Impeachment. There will never be a greater case for Impeachment.
If the Republicans really are upset with the FBi / DoJ they wouldn’t be throwing money at them and funding all kinds of expansions. They have to act like they’re upset with Wray, but they love him and their actions show it.
Oh boy! More probes, panels, meetings, investigations,committees and questions to finally get to the bottom of this.
Blah Blah Blah
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3-4 years later, Grassley is writing a letter everyone knows they will ignore.
A letter …. “Grassley’s letter…”
This is a Politicians way of looking like they are doing something, when they aren’t doing anything. The Republicans line up to throw money at Wray, and one must follow the ACTIONS and ignore the words.
“That added detail increases the significance of Grassley’s Sunday letter”
Now we’re talkin’. Grassley wrote a LETTER.
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Good points.
That was 2016 the Biden Bribe / threat he later admitted to using a Billion dollars to get the Burisma Prosecutor Fired. And they’ve had Hunter’s laptop since 2018-2019.
The Whistleblower said Hunter had been under Investigation since 2018 or earlier. Another source said Hunter was under a Federal Grand Jury Investigation since 2018 - but they never asked the GJ to Indict.
The point is - they work awful hard to do nothing. The clamoring is for the base. It’s Acting,
Wrong. Democrats will still impeach a Republican for jay walking... Besides Biden has the FBI, DOJ, the MSM and other assorted thugs protecting him. The standard we would have to bring evidence against a vile democrats would be a different standard then what they need to bring against a Republican... in that case rumors and press stories will suffice.. for us we would need EVERYTHING and even then we'd have a hard time. Remember white liberal elites are corrupt and evil and they run DC.
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The Dems have already said they will Impeach Trump if he’s Elected - over Docs.
McCarthy promised someone that he wouldn’t Impeach Biden. The game is now to use recurring 3-4 week delays and they’ll add up to getting Joe across the Finish Line.
BIDEN’S long time in Congress is paying dividends.
Ohh, a probe, useless.
Exactly!
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