Wray Misdirects Congress Over FBI’s Burying Of Biden Bribery Report
On Tuesday, Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, drilled the FBI director on the bureau s handling of reporting from June 2020 of a longtime, highly credible CHS that implicated the Biden family in a bribery scandal. At the time, at the direction of then-Attorney General William Barr, the U.S. attorney s office in Pittsburgh was screening evidence related to Ukrainian corruption. As part of that review process, then-U.S. Attorney Scott Brady requested that FBI agents reinterview a CHS who had previously made a passing reference to Hunter Biden and his service on Burisma s board of directors.
Further questioning of the CHS resulted in the explosive FD-1023 that Grassley released in July. That FD-1023 summarized the CHS s reporting that Burisma had paid Hunter and Joe Biden each $5 million in bribes so the then-vice president would protect Burisma from all kinds of problems. Those alleged bribes were in addition to the more than $4 million in total Burisma reportedly paid to Hunter Biden and his business partner Devon Archer for sitting on Burisma s board of directors.
When did Wray first learn about the FD-1023 that Grassley inquired about during Tuesday s Judiciary Committee hearing? And what steps were taken to investigate the substance of the CHS s allegations?
Wray failed to provide a specific time frame for when he learned about the existence of the FD-1023, but he said it was much, much, much more recently than anything around 2020, that s for sure.
But how can that be? After all, when questioned by the House Judiciary Committee, Brady testified that FBI headquarters was required to sign off for any investigative steps that FBI Pittsburgh was asked to take by his office. The former Pittsburgh U.S. attorney reiterated this point, testifying: It was my understanding that they could not take any steps absent the approval, the review and approval of FBI headquarters, not just the leadership of FBI Pittsburgh. And later, when asked to elaborate on challenges with the FBI, Brady noted: It was my understanding that FBI headquarters had to sign off on every assignment, no matter how small or routine, before they could take action.
I should probably just take a break from blogging about the Bidens. Or Wray. Corruption used to be funny, but this is not. And it’s just the tip of the boil, so to speak. It’s like the beginning of LOTR, where Galadriel intones that she can feel a deep change in the air, only in our case it’s a markedly unpleasant odor. I advise all young people to move to the woods and live off your sales at craft fairs. Establish your escape routes and cache ammo.