Democrats in Congress have come out in full defense of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s obstinate refusal to comply with a subpoena to release an informant file that allegedly links President Joe Biden to a massive $5 million bribery scheme.
According to a report from Breitbart News, FBI Director Christopher Wray has been given a deadline of Tuesday to hand over the unclassified document, which is a recorded conversation the FBI did with an informant. The document allegedly contains details concerning an exchange of cash for policy decisions that took place between Biden and a foreign national. Adding credibility to the whole situation is that the Justice Department did not deny the existence of the record.
ICYMI: FBI Director Chris Wray & James Comer are scheduled to meet in the coming days as the Oversight Chair threatens to hold Wray in contempt of Congress if he refuses to turn over a doc a whistleblower claims shows Biden was involved in a bribery schemehttps://t.co/Z18YyJhZyp
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“Wray agreed to schedule a meeting with House Oversight James Comer (R-KY) for this week about the status. The scheduled meeting comes after Comer threatened to hold the FBI in contempt of Congress for failing to hand over the unclassified file,” the report continued.
“It just sounds preposterous to me that you will hold the FBI director in contempt over a tip sheet that they think someone submitted to the FBI,” House Oversight Ranking Member Jamie Raskin (D-MD) said in a statement to Punchbowl News. “[Comer is] making a mountain out of something that is not even a molehill.”
Democratic Congressman Gerry Connolly, a Democrat from Virginia, who is a member of the Oversight Committee, went on to make the claim that Comer’s attempt to make the FBI be more transparent is an attack, or as he put it, an “assault” on the agency.
“It’s part of the assault on the FBI that the Republicans have launched, fueled by Trump’s hatred of the FBI,” he commented.
House Republicans who reside on the Oversight Committee have a totally different view of the stonewalling from the bureau.
“I think it’s clear and obvious that the DOJ, the FBI, Christopher Wray, Merrick Garland, and many others are protecting the Bidens,” Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) exclusively stated in remarks given to Breitbart News on Thursday.
Comer referred to the bureau’s current position as “obstructionist.”
“The FBI’s refusal to produce this single document is obstructionist. Nevertheless, to narrow the breadth of the subpoena, we are providing additional terms based on unclassified and legally protected whistleblower disclosures that may be referenced in the FD-1023 form: ‘June 30, 2020’ and ‘five million,’” Comer explained.
“The FBI’s mission is to protect the American people,” the FBI went on to say in a statement delivered to the press. “Releasing confidential source information could potentially jeopardize investigations and put lives at risk. The FBI remains committed to cooperating with Congress’s oversight requests.”
The agency’s refusal to comply with the subpoena comes about as Comer is seeking to investigate members of the Biden family for their potential involvement in an influence peddling scheme.
Back in March, the investigation revealed three members of the Biden family who received, together, $1.3 million, which was wired through an associate of Biden’s from a Chinese energy company just two months after Joe Biden left the office of vice president.
“In May, it found the Biden family business over the course of several years received at least $10 million from business schemes in Romania and China in return for what appears to be influence peddling. In total, nine Biden family members received payments from the family foreign business ventures, including two of Joe Biden’s grandchildren, Comer revealed,“ Breitbart concluded.
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