Comer wins: FBI relents, agrees to deliver subpoenaed memo alleging Biden bribery to Capitol
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Via: vic-eldred • 3 years ago • 101 commentsBy: John Solomon (Just The News)
S E E D E D C O N T E N T
Facing a potential contempt of Congress vote, FBI Director Christopher Wray relented and has agreed to bring a subpoenaed document from the Biden family investigation to Capitol Hill for lawmakers to inspect on Monday, House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer announced Friday.
The document in question, an FD-1023, contains uncorroborated allegations that an informant provided the FBI in June 2020 alleging that Joe Biden, when he was vice president, was engaged in a bribery scheme to change US policy in return for $5 million to his family's businesses, lawmakers have said.
Congress was alerted to the document by an FBI whistleblower who raised concerns the allegations were never fully investigated. Comer and Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa demanded to see the document, and Comer followed with a subpoena.
As recently as Wednesday, Wray indicated he would not turn over the document in compliance with the subpoena, but would let lawmakers come read it at the FBI. But a deal was struck late Thursday for the FBI to bring the document to the Capitol, officials said.
"Chairman Comer will receive a briefing from the FBI and review the document on Monday," his committee told Just the News in a statement. "Chairman Comer has been clear that anything short of producing the FD-1023 form to the House Oversight Committee is not compliance with his subpoena. This unclassified record contains pages of details that need to be investigated further by the House Oversight Committee."
In a statement to Just the News, the FBI said it wanted to accommodate Congress while also protecting sensitive confidential human source information that often is recorded in memos even before it is corroborated.
"Director Wray offered to provide the Committee's Chairman and Ranking Member an opportunity to review information responsive to the subpoena in a secure manner to accommodate the committee, while protecting the confidentiality and safety of sources and important investigative sensitivities," the bureau said. "The FBI has continually demonstrated its commitment to working with the Committee to accommodate its request, from scheduling briefings and calls to now allowing the Chair to review information in person. The FBI remains committed to cooperating with the Committee in good faith."
The bureau also cautioned that FD-1023 forms are "used by FBI agents to record unverified reporting by a confidential human source. Documenting the information does not validate it, establish its credibility, or weigh it against other information verified by the FBI.
"Revealing unverified or possibly incomplete information could harm investigations, prejudice prosecutions or judicial proceedings, unfairly violate privacy or reputations, create misimpressions in the public, or potentially identify individuals who provide information to law enforcement, placing their physical safety at risk," it added.
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It's too bad...I wanted Wray held in contempt!
Unclassified yet enough info in it that it has to be looked at in a private setting? I did see yesterday that Wray wanted to produce a redacted version but it seems that MAY have changed. Cloak and dagger time??
Not only did he want to redact most of the document, but he wanted Comer to read it in a private secure location. That would leave Comer not being able to read much of it and then being in the position of having to tell the nation what he read. This is the only way to do it and btw, as a final saver, Wray said it was uncorroborated as he handed it over.
I guess the bureau was busy with parents and Catholics and Pro-Life activists.
The only sure thing is that it will be a nothingburger.
Yeah, because that's what withholding an unclassified document indicates.
a nothingburger lead to the FBI opening a full fledged investigation of the Trump campaign, wiretapping American citizens based on doctored evidence and a independent counsel that wreaked havoc with a Presidency for years, despite Comey knowing from the outset that it was all bullshit.
But since Biden's a Democrat, none of that will happen. The FBI tried to hide the report, and will no doubt immediately announce there's nothing to see here without undertaking a full investigation. There's no mystery how this plays out.
The only sure thing is that it will be a nothingburger.
With a side of deep state onion rings.
BREAKING:
House Republicans request the Justice Department to turn over information about the Special Counsel investigation into Donald Trump.
Wait!!! This implies the Democrat run DOJ wasn't all that forthcoming with information that they presented. Not that it would be a surprise.
They sat on the info and the leftist media calls it a nothingburger.
FBI to bring Biden document to Capitol Hill Monday:
Wow! Y'all on the right finally got a 'victory' ... keep rubbing those Pyrrhic sticks together!
It's more a victory that what we've seen from the Democrats. Even with the dirt level expectations we all have of them.
The proclivity of right wingers, on this seed and in general , to salivate about this nonsense is truly impressive.
I guess thats what happens when your entire outlook about politics revolves around conspiracy theories.
The sooner the country realizes there is no hope the sooner we can try and adjust.
We don't hear those until 9 PM
... and only on Mondays. Aww!
Her audience has declined.
There is still PBS Kids.
Balanced by Tucker on Twitter ... YAY!
That is one ugly dude.
Dude looks like a lady ..... oh wait!
It would be funny to go back to the Trump years on this site and review just how many times proof of collusion was promised.
Remember the little cannon the legal blogger you liked would post every time he believe they "got" Trump during Mueller?
We heard the walls were closing in just about every day.
Sean, I really dont give a shit about what far right activists believe, other than that they should leave everyone else the hell alone. The Comer committee and the Jordan committee are jokes.
Nothing can stop right wingers from regurgitating nonsense, so the rest of us just have to try and ride it out.
May I suggest a barrel racing saddle for next week when that document is read to the nation?
Based on your posts and articles you seed I would beg to differ. What the right does seems to pretty much consume you.
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The mysterious document that James Comer and Kevin McCarthy are threatening to hold FBI Director Christopher Wray in contempt for not producing is…well, it’s not all that interesting, BUT it was provided to them by Rudy Giuliani?! What is going on here?
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is basically doing what the right wing falsely suspected Hillary did with the Steele dossier: Inject raw information to FBI and then keep pointing to it, even if it is shoddy.
Why is James Comer doing what he has spent 6 years condemning?
Thanks for proving my point
I have no idea what your point is, nor do I care.
Interesting that you responded to my post without knowing what the point of my post was. It is pretty self explanatory.
This is kind of funny given your history of "smoking gun" articles that fell flat.
You mean like posting hundreds of seeds about the "orange man bad" conspiracy of Russian collusion....all with zero proof?
You know why you could never provide proof?
Because it never existed.
One day you will realize that.
What is ironic is the likelihood that this "explosive" document is a right wing version of the Steele Dossier.
No John,
The FBI used the Steele Dossier to get FISA warrants to illegally tap the Trump campaign after they already knew it was bogus. The Steele Dossier was a paid for political hit job by the Hillary Clinton campaign.
The FBI is accused of sitting on and not researching this document according to the whistleblower. Who claims it is valid. The Republicans did not produce this document. Not nearly the same damn thing.
Something similar would be the FBI sitting on Hunter Biden's laptop; while trying to squelch all information on it as being Russian disinformation; and then the FBI and DOJ slow walking the investigation into it and Hunter Biden.
But keep spinning. Soon only the far left loons will be with you.
A clown at CNN is the source?
How disrespectful to the elected members of an oversight Committee.
Nope. Wray will have to bring an unredacted copy to the Committee.
Heres a thought - fuck Jim Jordan and James Comer. They are clowns. I am awaiting Jeremy Raskin ripping this conspiracy to shreds, like always.
Just rule with an iron fist?
“Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything.” ― Joseph Stalin.
There is zero evidence of Stalin ever saying that. But hey, if perpetuating myths is your thing ... tallyho!
Vic, the right wing in America these days is wallowing in nonsense. I am not going to sugarcoat it for you.
Oh I see. Do you think this president should be investigated the way the last one was?
I am not going to sugarcoat it for you.
I hear ya!
Raskin? '
Finally give up on bobble head boy Adam Schiff?
Not that it matters; both are Democrat partisan shills that have been proven wrong repeatedly.
All the leftists are trying to claim he didn't really say it.
Look at it this way: they have another Joe and he is also out making his own rules. So as JR says : fuck Jim Jordan and James Comer. It's all about one man rule!
Funny how they claim to not be marxists, but have no problem defending a marxist.
John, the projection contained in that comment is copious.
I wonder if the FBI will have the stones to alter the document?
I know that 2 Republicans have claimed to have already seen it; and know what is in it.
But it wouldn't be the first time the FBI has altered documents to suit their narrative. Just ask Michael Flynn. Or the FISA judges that gave warrants to tap the Trump campaign using altered FBI data; and the Steele Dossier.
That's right.
I think Wray will simply turn it over now after having done all that he could to protect Joe Biden and the very corrupt bureau that Wray seems to have sold his soul to.
Wray is bringing the document for the chairman and the ranking member of the committee to look at. He is not "turning it over" to them. He is going to bring the original back to the FBI.
Why did he take so fucking long?
Why did he try and make Republicans jump through hoops to see an unclassified document?
Why are you defending the asshole?
So the American people can't see it. In that case you'll accept the Chairman's word as to what it said?
If both the Chairman and the ranking member look at it, there really shouldn't be any disparity in what they each read, right?
Do you understand why the people have to see it?
Comer's committee is an utter clown show.
As opposed to the Jan 6th Committee / S
Who might these 'stellar' folks be?
What do you watch up there for news?
BBC, CBC, CTV, GLOBAL, MSNBC, Al Jazeera, PBS ... oh and also from this fella who hangs outside the local booze emporium and wears a sign around his neck, "TOO UGLY TO HAVE SEX WITH" ... he is the only Trump fan I've met who is a real hoot.