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Re: Dozens of FBI sources gave 'criminal information' on Bidens that DOJ tried to discredit as 'foreign disinformation': Grassley
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> Bought and paid for by Ukraine, the Biden family. American taxpayers
> should be getting out the torches and pitchforks and putting this
> issue to rest.
More than 40 confidential sources provided “criminal information”
related to the Biden family to the FBI — which the Justice Department
tried to discredit as “foreign disinformation,” according to Republican
Sen. Chuck Grassley.
The confidential human sources, managed by several different FBI field
offices, supplied the bureau with details of potential crimes by Hunter
Biden, James Biden and Joe Biden dating back to his time as vice
president, according to a letter, obtained by The Post, that was sent by
the Iowa Republican to FBI Director Christopher Wray and Attorney
General Merrick Garland on Tuesday.
“This letter is based on years of investigation, including the provision
of information, records, and allegations from multiple Justice
Department whistleblowers that indicate there is – and has been – an
effort among certain Justice Department and FBI officials to improperly
delay and stop full and complete investigative activity into the Biden
family,” Grassley wrote.
“An essential question that must be answered is this: did the FBI
investigate the information or shut it down? Indeed, if those sources
were improperly shut down, it wouldn’t be out of the ordinary for the
FBI,” he added.
“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,” Grassley continued. “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.”
The senator notes whistleblower allegations claimed that the bureau
received information about first son Hunter Biden’s “criminal financial
and related activity” in 2020, but “ultimately shut it down based on
false assertions that it was subject to foreign disinformation.”
The disinformation assessment was created by FBI Supervisory
Intelligence Analyst Brian Auten, according to Grassley, who explains
that the report was used by ”an FBI HQ team to improperly discredit
negative Hunter Biden information as disinformation and caused
investigative activity to cease.”
“The precise basis for how the FBI HQ team selected the specific
information for inclusion in Auten’s assessment is unknown, but the
focus of the FBI HQ team’s attention involved derogatory information
about Hunter Biden and Joe Biden,” Grassley wrote.
Grassley also citeed whistleblower claims that FBI Assistant Special
Agent in Charge Tim Thibault – the bureau’s “point man” on Hunter Biden
business partner Tony Bobulinski – ordered that another 2020 probe into
the first son’s alleged “criminal financial and related activity” be
closed after pressure from “an FBI HQ and FBI Baltimore element.”
The senator further revealed that in December 2019, the FBI Washington
Field Office closed a “205B” kleptocracy case into Mykola Zlochevsky,
the owner of Ukrainian natural gas company Burisma Holdings – at the
same time Hunter Biden’s seat on Burisma’s board of directors was under
heavy scrutiny as a result of former President Donald Trump’s
impeachment over his infamous phone call with Ukrainian President
Volodymyr Zelensky.
Trump had asked Zelensky to investigate Joe Biden’s role in the firing
of former Ukrainian Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin.
The probe into Zlochevsky had been ongoing since January 2016, according
to Grassley, and was being investigated by a Foreign Corrupt Practices
Act squad based out of the FBI’s Washington Field Office.
An FBI informant alleged in June 2020 that Zlochevsky described a $10
million bribery allegation against Joe Biden and Hunter Biden, which was
memorialized in an FBI FD-1023 form.
The informant recalled Zlochevsky claiming during a 2016 meeting that
“it cost 5 [million] to pay one Biden, and 5 [million] to another
Biden,” according to the redacted FD-1023 form.
After the kleptocracy case into Zlochevsky was closed, Grassley says, a
“guardian” assessment was opened by the FBI’s Pittsburgh Field Office to
analyze information about the Biden family provided by Rudy Giuliani,
during which DOJ and FBI officials located an FD-1023 from March 2017
related to the closed Zlochevsky probe.
The 2017 document contained a reference to Hunter Biden being on the
board of Burisma, which “the handling agent deemed at the time
non-relevant information to the ongoing criminal financial case,”
according to Grassley.
“When that FD-1023 was discovered, Justice Department and FBI officials
asked the handler for the Confidential Human Source to re-interview that
CHS,” Grassley writes, noting that the re-interview led to the creation
of the June 2020 FD-1023 containing the bribery allegations against the
Bidens.
During the guardian assessment, run out of the FBI Pittsburgh Field
Office, investigators were “limited in their investigative abilities,”
according to Grassley, because it was only an “assessment.”
The Iowan claims that Auten and the FBI’s Foreign Influence Task Force
worked to “falsely discredit” the bribery allegations in August 2020 as
“foreign disinformation” and “attempted to shut down” further
investigative steps.
“It should be emphasized that the basis for trying to shut down the
Biden family 1023 has been described to my office as highly suspect and
is contradicted by other documents my office has been told exist within
the Foreign Influence Task Force, FBI Seattle Field Office, FBI
Baltimore Field Office, and FBI HQ holdings,” Grassley notes.
The Pittsburgh assessment was closed in September 2020 with its findings
sent to the Justice Department by Scott Brady, then the US Attorney for
the Western District of Pennsylvania.
Brady’s report recommended that “additional investigative activity be
done” on Biden bribery allegations.
“Notably, my office has been informed that, with respect to the CHS in
the Biden family 1023, the 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 2020 and found no hits to known
sources of Russian disinformation,” Grassley wrote, adding that the
information was transmitted to Delaware US Attorney David Weiss – the
prosecutor overseeing the DOJ’s five-year-long criminal probe into
Hunter Biden, which is ongoing.
Grassley demanded a response to his letter from the FBI and DOJ by Nov.
17.
Nigel Tufnel
25 October, 2023
One the one hand, we have a compromised president who sold his office
for personal gain, and the other, a guy who inflated his wealth relating
to some unique, one-of-a-kind properties for which there are no comps,
for PR purposes, not illegal as far as I know, and the book is thrown at
him. What is the crime?
https://nypost.com/2023/10/25/news/fbi-had-over-40-confidential-sources-p
roviding-criminal-information-on-biden-family-sen-chuck-grassley-says/
news:u0vp9h$210it$1...@dont-email.me:
> Bought and paid for by Ukraine, the Biden family. American taxpayers
> should be getting out the torches and pitchforks and putting this
> issue to rest.
More than 40 confidential sources provided “criminal information”
related to the Biden family to the FBI — which the Justice Department
tried to discredit as “foreign disinformation,” according to Republican
Sen. Chuck Grassley.
The confidential human sources, managed by several different FBI field
offices, supplied the bureau with details of potential crimes by Hunter
Biden, James Biden and Joe Biden dating back to his time as vice
president, according to a letter, obtained by The Post, that was sent by
the Iowa Republican to FBI Director Christopher Wray and Attorney
General Merrick Garland on Tuesday.
“This letter is based on years of investigation, including the provision
of information, records, and allegations from multiple Justice
Department whistleblowers that indicate there is – and has been – an
effort among certain Justice Department and FBI officials to improperly
delay and stop full and complete investigative activity into the Biden
family,” Grassley wrote.
“An essential question that must be answered is this: did the FBI
investigate the information or shut it down? Indeed, if those sources
were improperly shut down, it wouldn’t be out of the ordinary for the
FBI,” he added.
“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,” Grassley continued. “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.”
The senator notes whistleblower allegations claimed that the bureau
received information about first son Hunter Biden’s “criminal financial
and related activity” in 2020, but “ultimately shut it down based on
false assertions that it was subject to foreign disinformation.”
The disinformation assessment was created by FBI Supervisory
Intelligence Analyst Brian Auten, according to Grassley, who explains
that the report was used by ”an FBI HQ team to improperly discredit
negative Hunter Biden information as disinformation and caused
investigative activity to cease.”
“The precise basis for how the FBI HQ team selected the specific
information for inclusion in Auten’s assessment is unknown, but the
focus of the FBI HQ team’s attention involved derogatory information
about Hunter Biden and Joe Biden,” Grassley wrote.
Grassley also citeed whistleblower claims that FBI Assistant Special
Agent in Charge Tim Thibault – the bureau’s “point man” on Hunter Biden
business partner Tony Bobulinski – ordered that another 2020 probe into
the first son’s alleged “criminal financial and related activity” be
closed after pressure from “an FBI HQ and FBI Baltimore element.”
The senator further revealed that in December 2019, the FBI Washington
Field Office closed a “205B” kleptocracy case into Mykola Zlochevsky,
the owner of Ukrainian natural gas company Burisma Holdings – at the
same time Hunter Biden’s seat on Burisma’s board of directors was under
heavy scrutiny as a result of former President Donald Trump’s
impeachment over his infamous phone call with Ukrainian President
Volodymyr Zelensky.
Trump had asked Zelensky to investigate Joe Biden’s role in the firing
of former Ukrainian Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin.
The probe into Zlochevsky had been ongoing since January 2016, according
to Grassley, and was being investigated by a Foreign Corrupt Practices
Act squad based out of the FBI’s Washington Field Office.
An FBI informant alleged in June 2020 that Zlochevsky described a $10
million bribery allegation against Joe Biden and Hunter Biden, which was
memorialized in an FBI FD-1023 form.
The informant recalled Zlochevsky claiming during a 2016 meeting that
“it cost 5 [million] to pay one Biden, and 5 [million] to another
Biden,” according to the redacted FD-1023 form.
After the kleptocracy case into Zlochevsky was closed, Grassley says, a
“guardian” assessment was opened by the FBI’s Pittsburgh Field Office to
analyze information about the Biden family provided by Rudy Giuliani,
during which DOJ and FBI officials located an FD-1023 from March 2017
related to the closed Zlochevsky probe.
The 2017 document contained a reference to Hunter Biden being on the
board of Burisma, which “the handling agent deemed at the time
non-relevant information to the ongoing criminal financial case,”
according to Grassley.
“When that FD-1023 was discovered, Justice Department and FBI officials
asked the handler for the Confidential Human Source to re-interview that
CHS,” Grassley writes, noting that the re-interview led to the creation
of the June 2020 FD-1023 containing the bribery allegations against the
Bidens.
During the guardian assessment, run out of the FBI Pittsburgh Field
Office, investigators were “limited in their investigative abilities,”
according to Grassley, because it was only an “assessment.”
The Iowan claims that Auten and the FBI’s Foreign Influence Task Force
worked to “falsely discredit” the bribery allegations in August 2020 as
“foreign disinformation” and “attempted to shut down” further
investigative steps.
“It should be emphasized that the basis for trying to shut down the
Biden family 1023 has been described to my office as highly suspect and
is contradicted by other documents my office has been told exist within
the Foreign Influence Task Force, FBI Seattle Field Office, FBI
Baltimore Field Office, and FBI HQ holdings,” Grassley notes.
The Pittsburgh assessment was closed in September 2020 with its findings
sent to the Justice Department by Scott Brady, then the US Attorney for
the Western District of Pennsylvania.
Brady’s report recommended that “additional investigative activity be
done” on Biden bribery allegations.
“Notably, my office has been informed that, with respect to the CHS in
the Biden family 1023, the 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 2020 and found no hits to known
sources of Russian disinformation,” Grassley wrote, adding that the
information was transmitted to Delaware US Attorney David Weiss – the
prosecutor overseeing the DOJ’s five-year-long criminal probe into
Hunter Biden, which is ongoing.
Grassley demanded a response to his letter from the FBI and DOJ by Nov.
17.
Nigel Tufnel
25 October, 2023
One the one hand, we have a compromised president who sold his office
for personal gain, and the other, a guy who inflated his wealth relating
to some unique, one-of-a-kind properties for which there are no comps,
for PR purposes, not illegal as far as I know, and the book is thrown at
him. What is the crime?
https://nypost.com/2023/10/25/news/fbi-had-over-40-confidential-sources-p
roviding-criminal-information-on-biden-family-sen-chuck-grassley-says/
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