FBI’s Biden bribery document cleared initial vetting by multiple Justice Department offices
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FBI had 40+ informants from across country
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), today revealed new details about the scale of criminal information provided to the FBI about the Biden family and the efforts some FBI officials took to sideline key information and sources, some of whom had been vetted by multiple Justice Department offices. The new details were outlined in a letter from Grassley to Attorney General Merrick Garland and FBI Director Chris Wray.
Grassley’s letter summarizes his multi-year investigation into the Biden family’s foreign business deals, as well as legally protected disclosures from multiple Justice Department whistleblowers warning of improper tampering with key information streams, which has reportedly stymied investigative activity.
Key highlights
- FBI maintained over 40 confidential human sources out of various field offices across the United States who provided criminal information relating to Joe Biden, James Biden, and Hunter Biden.
- DOJ and FBI officials conducting an early review of the FD-1023 alleging a criminal conspiracy involving Burisma owner Mykola Zlochevsky and Joe and Hunter Biden lacked the authority to fully investigate its contents. Despite those administrative challenges, they were able to verify some information in the document and recommended a more fulsome investigation.
- U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Pennsylvania coordinated with the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York in reviewing the confidential human source at the center of the FD-1023 and found no hits to known sources of Russian disinformation.
- A D.C.-based FBI taskforce sought to falsely discredit as foreign disinformation various Biden family-related confidential human sources, including the source behind the FD-1023.
- FBI Washington Field Office closed a Kleptocracy case into Mykola Zlochevsky in December 2019.
- Grassley will seek interviews from at least 25 DOJ and FBI personnel involved in the efforts to investigate the Biden family or shut down related sourcing.
“Based on the information provided to my office over a period of years by multiple credible whistleblowers, there appears to be an effort within the Justice Department and FBI to shut down investigative activity relating to the Biden family. Such decisions point to significant political bias infecting the decision-making of not only the Attorney General and FBI Director, but also line agents and prosecutors. Our Republic cannot survive such a political infection and you have an obligation to this country to clear the air,” Grassley wrote.
Read the full letter HERE.
