{"id":1614250,"date":"2022-08-18T11:50:57","date_gmt":"2022-08-18T15:50:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1614250"},"modified":"2022-08-18T11:50:58","modified_gmt":"2022-08-18T15:50:58","slug":"top-senator-whistleblower-information-reveals-political-infection-within-the-fbi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/top-senator-whistleblower-information-reveals-political-infection-within-the-fbi\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Senator: Whistleblower Information Reveals \u2018Political Infection\u2019 Within the FBI"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftop-senator-whistleblower-information-reveals-political-infection-within-the-fbi%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1614250&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Sen. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-chuck-grassley\">Chuck Grassley<\/a> (R-Iowa) said allegations from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-fbi\">FBI<\/a> whistleblowers show there is a \u201cpolitical infection\u201d within the bureau following the agency\u2019s unprecedented raid on former President Donald Trump\u2019s Florida home.<\/p>\n<p>In a letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray, Grassley demanded information about alleged bias among high-ranking officials.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStarting on May 31, 2022, I\u2019ve written three letters to you regarding political bias that has infected the FBI\u2019s Washington Field Office,\u201d Grassley wrote Aug. 17 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.grassley.senate.gov\/imo\/media\/doc\/grassley_to_fbi_wfo_org_chart_and_interviews.pdf\">pdf<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTwo of those letters provided specific and credible allegations based on numerous whistleblowers that have approached my office with information that one can only conclude is indicative of a deeply rooted political infection that has spread to investigative activity into former President Trump and Hunter Biden,\u201d he added, referring to President Joe Biden\u2019s son.<\/p>\n<p>The letter said that the FBI approved an investigation into Trump\u2019s campaign but simultaneously\u00a0\u201cshut down investigative activity and sources, which included verified and verifiable information, relating to Hunter Biden.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Whistleblower allegations, according to Grassley\u2019s latest letter, emerged about FBI supervisory intelligence agent Brian Auten opening an assessment in August 2020 that was used to incorrectly label information about Hunter Biden\u2019s son as false.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe FBI has not refuted these serious allegations,\u201d Grassley told Wray. \u201cThus far, the FBI has failed to address the concerns that I\u2019ve raised and failed to produce the requested records.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Later, the senator wrote he wants to see an organizational breakdown of the Washington Field Office to see who is staffed and responsible for the investigations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs you are aware, Assistant Special Agent in Charge Tim Thibault is not the only politically biased FBI agent at the Washington Field Office,\u201d Grassley wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Previously,\u00a0Thibault was flagged by Grassley for sharing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/senior-fbi-official-likely-broke-ethics-rules-with-anti-trump-animus-grassley_4505020.html\">a Twitter post<\/a>\u00a0calling Trump\u00a0\u201ca psychologically broken, embittered, and deeply unhappy man.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month and in previous letters, Grassley singled<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. 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In a letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray, Grassley demanded information about alleged bias among high-ranking officials. \u201cStarting on May 31, 2022, I\u2019ve written three [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1614250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1614250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1614250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1614250\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1614250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1614250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1614250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}