Hunter Biden evidence wrongly labeled disinformation by FBI: Whistleblower
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Agents investigating President Joe Biden's son "opened an assessment which was used by an FBI headquarters team to improperly discredit negative Hunter Biden information as disinformation," according to Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA). Grassley revealed the claim after his office received "a significant number of protected communications from highly credible whistleblowers" about the investigation. The Republican claimed one of the communications shows "verified and verifiable derogatory information on Hunter Biden was falsely labeled as "disinformation."
FBI supervisory intelligence agent Brian Auten opened the assessment in August 2020 that was later used by the agency, according to the disclosures. One of the whistleblowers claimed the FBI assistant special agent in charge of the Washington field office, Timothy Thibault , shut down a line of inquiry into Hunter Biden in October 2020 despite some of the details being known to be true at the time
A whistleblower also said Thibault “ordered closed” an “avenue of additional derogatory Hunter Biden reporting," according to Grassley, even though “all of the reporting was either verified or verifiable via criminal search warrants.” The senator said Thibault “ordered the matter closed without providing a valid reason as required” and that FBI officials “subsequently attempted to improperly mark the matter in FBI systems so that it could not be opened in the future,” according to the disclosures.
Whistleblowers alleged investigators from an FBI headquarters team “were in communication with FBI agents responsible for the Hunter Biden information targeted by Mr. Auten's assessment” and that their findings on whether the claims were true or disinformation were placed “in a restricted access sub-file” in September 2020, according to the senator.
The whistleblower disclosures “appear to indicate that there was a scheme in place among certain FBI officials to undermine derogatory information connected to Hunter Biden by falsely suggesting it was disinformation," Grassley said. The new allegations, summarized by Grassley in a Monday letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland and FBI Director Christopher Wray, were previously unknown.
The new information comes after Auten was involved in the Trump-Russia investigation, including interviewing Igor Danchenko , the alleged main source for British ex-spy Christopher Steele ’s dossier in 2017. Congressional sources confirmed to the Washington Examiner that Auten is the “Supervisory Intel Agent” from DOJ inspector general Michael Horowitz’s 2019 report on Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act abuse.
Grassley said the “volume and consistency” of the whistleblower allegations “substantiate their credibility.” The claims come as the U.S. attorney’s office in Delaware is reportedly nearing a decision on whether to charge Hunter Biden, who has denied any wrongdoing.
The assessment by Auten in August 2020 was opened the same month Grassley and Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) received a briefing from the FBI “that purportedly related to our Biden investigation and a briefing for which the contents were later leaked in order paint the investigation in a false light,” Grassley said. The senator said Senate Democrats asked for a briefing in July 2020 “from the very same FBI HQ team that discredited the derogatory Hunter Biden information.”
The FBI inquiry into Hunter Biden reportedly began as a tax investigation, then expanded into a scrutiny of potential money-laundering and foreign lobbying, and the DOJ has declined to hand over investigative details .
Thibault, who investigated corruption in the nation’s capital, may have violated the Hatch Act over his social media posts criticizing then-President Donald Trump and then-Attorney General William Barr in 2020, according to Horowitz last month.
President Joe Biden’s campaign and its allies dismissed the Hunter Biden laptop story as a Russian disinformation operation in October 2020. Konstantinos "Gus" Dimitrelos, a cyber expert and former Secret Service agent, conducted a review for the Washington Examiner and concluded that "the data contained on the hard drive is authentic.”
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence released a report in March 2021 concluding figures tied to Russian intelligence pushed “misleading or unsubstantiated allegations” about Joe Biden. Hunter Biden's laptop was not mentioned.
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Is anyone really surprised by this? Only democrat administrations, it would seem, get to investigate themselves. The Hunter Biden case screamed out for a Special Counsel Investigation, but our dishonest liberal media was silent and democrats in congress certainly weren't going to propose it. Here we have Obama's politicized FBI once again playing politics and fudging the law.
Here is Sen Grassley's letter:
There is no "Deep State"./S
Career assholes interjecting their politics into the work place.
Same as happened with the Russian collusion and Steele Dossier.
The reputation of the FBI is long gone.
You left out the Secret Service, no ?
Is the investigation over?
What was the conclusion?
Yea Vic, i know, just another of those tens of thousands of coincidences, that will never a correlation make, but give US a break. Questionably The two most crucially important days in the world of the Secret Service, and they somehow erased messages pertinent to their investigation...but as long as U believe them.
Just like you believed the Mueller team accidently erased all their communications.
Ah, something go against the Jan 6th grain?
Want me to throw in the IRS hard drives that were magically destroyed but really weren't? Found sitting on a shelf at the company that was supposed to destroy them. Ooopppsss.
How about Hillary's hard drives- that were magically erased despite repeated requests from Congress. No shackles and chains for the that queen bitch for defying Congress.
When it comes to hiding the truth and defying congressional summons the Democrats rule the roost.
TDS is rampant.
You really think Jan 6th ranks that highly? Forgetting the JFK assassination. The Nixon Tapes.
This is just another fishing expedition by the Jan 6th committee. At this point they have violated so many norms I hope they do charge whomever is responsible for following through with the cell phone transfer. Depending on when the transfer took place it could be someone Brandon appointed. That would be poetic justice.
You are in denial of reality.
Of course the attempt to steal the 2020 election is more important than Watergate. The JFK assassination is not comparable because they are two different kinds of events.
Don't call out the hypocrisy of the Democrats. It makes their lemmings cry.
Objectivity of the FBI went out the window years ago. This just confirms it.
Ah, Hunter Biden. Was he in the oval office at the meeting in December of 2020 when the cast of weirdos and traitors discussed how to steal the election?
It didn't work John. Try again.
Holy deflection Batman!
TDS got your tongue, JR?
Exactly, whatabout...
I didn't vote for Hunter.
I voted for Joe
So you voted for a pay for play criminal?
Brave of you to admit it.
No, that's what you did, voted for a lifelong thug, grifter, thief, loser, scum, #45
Grassley's timing is to run interference for the subject of the Jan 6 committee hearings. .
Um-hum! That's what it's all about.
Do you actually believe the things you are saying?
Is there a thing in the world you WOULDN'T believe is a deflection from Trump?
I guess that IS the result of focusing all your time and energy on Trump.
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There's a lot of about the Biden crime family we need to know about.
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2022/07/26/whistleblowers-fbi-doj-deep-state-working-overtime-to-protect-hunter-biden-n2610794?utm_campaign=rightrailsticky1
Great article!
It's amazing how people will bend over backward in their attempts to separate the dementia suffering POTUS from his crackhead kids "business endeavors". There is no way that HB could have done any of this with out DJB's involvement.
Senators Grassley and Johnson, Rep. Devin Nunes, Miranda Devine, FNC, Newsmax, and others have been spot-on from the get-go in exposing the truth about the Biden Family Crime Syndicate.
Ah Miranda Devine, what a fun gal hiring Rasmussen to run some polls and advertise her 'book' on their site.
No such thing. What is a thing would be the trumpturd crime family
Nope but I seem to be embedded in your thoughts most of the time
Meh, today's world orbits disinformation ... it's just following 'God's' plan.
The FBI may be unsalvageable. It's obviously a partisan actor.
Start over.
That's Steve Bannon's mantra and he's a Trotskyist.
You are a virtuoso with logical fallacies
What ever. Durham still on the public dole, right?
We're still waiting on the indictments on the entire Obama administration from him!
What dirt?
Playing dumb is a strategy. It's not a good one. But it's a strategy.
Did Hunter get two billion dollars from the Saudis too?
I ask again. What dirt?
Some people just can't seem to pay attention to what is going on around them.