We’ve been reporting on the information being revealed by whistleblowers about the politicization of the FBI, that there were wider questions being raised beyond Hunter Biden, including cases allegedly being dropped or pursued based on politics, as well as the FBI pressuring agents to pad statistics when it came to the question of domestic extremism.
But there’s more when it comes to the question of Hunter Biden. Senator Chuck Grassley, R-IA, explained that some FBI officials improperly tried to block the investigation. The FBI as well as Congress had been investigating Hunter Biden.
The whistleblowers, Grassley explained, had further claimed that “in August of 2020, FBI supervisory intelligence analyst Brian Auten opened an assessment, which was used by a team of agents at FBI headquarters to improperly discredit and falsely claim that derogatory information about Biden’s activities was disinformation, causing investigative activity and sourcing to be shut down.” “The FBI headquarters team allegedly placed their assessment findings in a restricted access subfolder, effectively flagging sources and derogatory evidence related to Hunter Biden as disinformation while shielding the justification for such findings from scrutiny,” according to Grassley.
Auten was previously referred to disciplinary action for the Trump-Russia probe. He was involved again when Hunter Biden came up. Auten did not recognize that Igor Danchenko was behind the dossier. This happened when an FBI analyst distributed an intelligence memo about the source of the dossier in February 2017.
Although the information was verified, Hunter Biden’s investigation was stopped.
According to one whistleblower, Timothy Thibault (FBI assistant special agent for Washington), shut down an inquiry into Hunter Biden’s fate in October 2020, despite certain details still being true.
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.
The FBI gave a briefing to Sen. Ron Johnson and Sen. Chuck Grassley “that purportedly related to our Biden investigation and a briefing for which the contents were later leaked in order to paint the investigation in a false light,” apparently saying the Hunter Biden info could be Russian disinformation. Johnson told Fox Business that this briefing was intended to discredit and block the investigation into the GOP by the FBI. This was very troubling.
Johnson said also that Democrats later accused Johnson of spreading Russian disinformation. The FBI also covered up that Hunter Biden was in fact FBI laptop, according to Johnson.
Johnson also discussed how the Biden Treasury team was blocking the requests from House Oversight Committee ranking member, Rep. James Comer (R-KY), to get the Suspicious Activity Reports regarding the Biden family, so Comer was going directly to Hunter Biden’s financial adviser to try to get the records.
This could be the “greatest episode of corruption” — executive branch against Congress– in U.S. history, Johnson declared.
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