Grassley letter slams pathetic DOJ Biden corruption coverup
By: Post Editorial Board (New York Post)
"largely because of bogus findings that it was all "foreign disinformation."
By Post Editorial Board
Bad as the evidence of Biden family sleaze is, the growing signs of Justice Department and FBI malfeasance in covering it up are far more disturbing.
In a bombshell letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland and FBI Director Christopher Wray, Sen. Chuck Grassley alleges that top Justice and FBI officials repeatedly, over the course of years, moved to shut down investigations into the Biden family.
Grassley says more than 40 confidential sources provided "criminal information" related to Hunter Biden and others in the clan to the FBI — with those cases rapidly closed, largely because of bogus findings that it was all "foreign disinformation."
Per the senator, the FBI's Washington Field Office's Foreign Corrupt Practices Act squad began investigating Mykola Zlochevsky, the owner of Ukrainian natural gas company Burisma Holdings in January 2016 — when Joe Biden was still vice president.
In 2017, a source referred 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," Grassley notes.
The office then closed the case in December 2019 — at the very time Hunter Biden's Burisma's ties were all over the news thanks to then-President Donald Trump's impeachment over his infamous phone call asking Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to look into Joe Biden's role in the firing of former Ukrainian Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin, who'd been investigating Burisma.
Meanwhile, the FBI's Pittsburgh Field Office opened a "guardian" assessment of info Rudy Giuliani had provided on the Bidens, which came across the info the DC office had ignored on Hunter and Burisma. It had that source re-interviewed, producing in June 2020 the now-well-known claim that Zlochevsky had said he bribed Hunter and Joe $5 million apiece so Joe would get Shokin fired.
The Pittsburgh office recommended that the investigation continue; FBI HQ instead shut it down.
Crucially, FBI Supervisory Intelligence Analyst Brian Auten, per Grassley, engineered a finding "to improperly discredit" the bribe claim as merely "foreign disinformation."
Grassley also cites 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 Hunter's alleged "criminal financial and related activity" be closed after pressure from "an FBI HQ and FBI Baltimore element."
All this, before the 2020 election.
On top of Grassley's letter came news that Scott Brady, who as US Attorney oversaw that Pittsburgh FBI investigation, told the House Judiciary Committee that the FBI hindered his Hunter Biden probe and that Delaware US Attorney David Weiss (the guy in charge of the main Justice investigation of Hunter) even skipped his team's final briefing on the bribery allegations.
Instead, Weiss sent Assistant US attorney Lesley Wolf, now repeatedly fingered by other whistleblowers as shutting down any lines of investigation that might threaten Joe Biden.
"I think there was reluctance on the part of the FBI to really do any tasking related to our assignment," Brady testified.
He also said he'd never been alerted to info from Hunter's laptop, which the FBI had had for months.
Again, all this happened in the Trump years, meaning top FBI and Justice officials were working to protect the Bidens on their own initiative — with Team Trump utterly oblivious.
We have utmost regard for Grassley and the House investigators who are finally exposing these outrages, and we hope Republicans nominate a 2024 candidate who's actually competent to root out this rot — not just rant about it.
No Trolling or Fascist nonsense
And the plot thickens?
What plot?
Read the article.
No plot, Just right wing wet dreams.
What DOJ Biden Corruption Cover-up?
There was no corruption to cover up.
Details...details...
I guess paying attention to those details is a bit too much for some.
The reason that all those House committees have come up with nothing is because there are no details.
Thanks for confirming 1.1.5.
And thank you [deleted]
And Jeremy's is not? Partisan rules?
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If you feel that way, you should flag it. His was not flagged?
He may have morons on ignore, I have a lot of them on ignore, but not all.
So if you see a rule being broken you ignore it unless someone flags you on it?
Big problem is that the Biden's have no shame.
Or morals, integrity, ethics or even common sense.
True dat.
'Bad as the evidence of Biden family . . . . '
What evidence?
So you at least read the first sentence of the article. Impressive.
Are you going to answer her question, or just ignore it?
Considering the source and knowing the reaction of poo pooing whatever would be presented, why bother. Therefore the answer to your query is.......................ignore it. I guess chivalry isn't dead after all.......
A simple "no I will not provide evidence to my claim", would have sufficed.
Then there's this.
Biden received $40,000 from family after Chinese payments, Oversight Committee says
But you all go ahead and keep your head in your 4th POC.
Why present anything when you don't believe anything negative about your hero?
One must suspend reality in order to pretend that the Biden Family did nothing wrong.
I can't help but notice YOU haven't provided any evidence to anything here. Yet here you are flapping your lips about the SEEDER not providing anything.
When I make a claim I back it up with links supporting that claim, however I have made no claims in this thread. You have.
One must be willfully blind to facts to not believe that the Biden Family was involved in some shady business.
You don't honestly expect the hard core lefty lib Bidenites to admit existence of any solid proof against the Big Guy do you? That's anathema to the max to them.
Of course not!
One member in particular has admitted on more than one occasion that they do not read articles by conservatives and then comments on them anyways.
Where are the loan docs and bank records detailing joe Biden loaning 200,000 to his brother?
I dont even bother to do more than skim through this constant nonsense.
The article has multiple references to FBI and DOJ decisions made in 2020. Who was president in 2020? Who had his appointees in charge of both the FBI and the DOJ at that time? And yet we are supposed to believe that the "deep state" favorable to Biden conspired to protect him even though Bill Barr was running DOJ and Trump controlled the FBI from 2017-21. All these FBI and DOJ people must have really hated Trump , which should tell you something in itself.
The article was written by a right leaning publication, therefore it just has to be filled with falsehoods, innuendo, and errors right?
Who controlled the DOJ in 2020 , when all these alleged DOJ misdeeds took place ?
Yes, the Trump DOJ had a policy against interfering in an election, as opposed to the current DOJ which times its prosecutions for the maximum political effect.
Nonsense, the former 'president' and turd has been 'campaigning' to stay out of prison for how long now?
That explains so much.
I realize that.
Seems to be the go-to play whenever Biden isn't praised.
The Biden Family schemes are coming to light, and it will expose Joe.
The bigger question is, will Joe just be impeached or will he go to jail?
And the Bidenistas run around with their heads in their 4th POC oblivious to everything.
Isn't Chuck, at 90, a card carrying member of the Senile Senator Fossil Club?
He wants people to remember him when he's gone.
As a racist asshole.
Most folks with any degree of intelligence just wish Joe was gone.