{"id":1930272,"date":"2023-05-13T07:41:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-13T11:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/some-house-republicans-call-for-holding-fbi-director-in-contempt-of-congress-for-failing-to-comply-with-subpoena\/"},"modified":"2023-05-13T07:43:13","modified_gmt":"2023-05-13T11:43:13","slug":"some-house-republicans-call-for-holding-fbi-director-in-contempt-of-congress-for-failing-to-comply-with-subpoena","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/some-house-republicans-call-for-holding-fbi-director-in-contempt-of-congress-for-failing-to-comply-with-subpoena\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP House members want to hold FBI Director in contempt for not following subpoena."},"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\">28<\/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%2Fsome-house-republicans-call-for-holding-fbi-director-in-contempt-of-congress-for-failing-to-comply-with-subpoena%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=1930272&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--><h2>House Republicans Divided on Contempt for FBI Director Over Whistleblower Allegations Against Biden<\/h2>\n<p>House Republicans are at odds over whether to hold FBI Director Christopher Wray in contempt of Congress for failing to comply with a subpoena from the House Oversight Committee. The subpoena seeks a document with whistleblower allegations that now-President Joe Biden received a bribe from a foreign official. <\/p>\n<h3>The Allegations<\/h3>\n<p>In a letter to Wray and Attorney General Merrick Garland, Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.) and Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) wrote that they have received legally protected and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/some-house-republicans-call-for-holding-fbi-director-in-contempt-of-congress-for-failing-to-comply-with-subpoena\/\" title=\"GOP House members want to hold FBI Director in contempt for not following subpoena.\">highly credible unclassified whistleblower disclosures<\/a>. The disclosures allege that the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) possess an unclassified FD-1023 form that describes an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senator-grassley-fbi-and-doj-will-damage-their-credibility-further-if-they-dont-cooperate-with-subpoena\/\" title=\"Grassley warns FBI and DOJ to cooperate with subpoena or risk credibility damage.\">alleged criminal scheme involving<\/a> then-Vice President Biden and a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fbi-director-subpoenaed-after-whistleblower-reveals-criminal-scheme-involving-joe-biden\/\" title=\"FBI Director subpoenaed over whistleblower's disclosure of Joe Biden's 'criminal scheme'.\">foreign national relating<\/a> to the exchange of money for policy decisions. <\/p>\n<p>The May 3 subpoena required the FBI to hand over any FD-1023 forms with the word \u201cBiden\u201d in them. The FBI refused to comply with the subpoena\u2019s May 10 deadline. <\/p>\n<h3>The Response<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s clear from the FBI\u2019s response that the unclassified record the Oversight Committee subpoenaed exists, but they are refusing to provide it to the Committee. We\u2019ve asked the FBI to not only provide this record, but to also inform us what it did to investigate these allegations,\u201d said Comer in a statement. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile the FBI has failed to produce the specific document by the subpoena deadline, their offer to provide an accommodation process in response to our legitimate request indicates the document is real,\u201d said Grassley in a statement. <\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for the FBI said that revealing such documents would jeopardize investigations. <\/p>\n<h3>Republican Reaction<\/h3>\n<p>Several House GOP members have expressed their willingness to hold Wray in contempt of Congress. <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cThe FBI\u2019s position is \u2018trust, but you aren\u2019t allowed to verify.\u2019 That is unacceptable. We plan to follow up with the FBI and expect compliance with the subpoena,\u201d said Comer.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cThe American people pay the FBI\u2019s salaries, and they\u2019re entitled to a fulsome response,\u201d said Grassley.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The allegations against Biden are serious, and the American people deserve to know the truth. It remains to be seen whether the FBI will comply with the subpoena and provide the requested documents. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON\u2014House Republicans appear split on whether to hold FBI Director Christopher Wray in contempt of Congress for not complying with a subpoena from the House Oversight Committee that seeks a document with whistleblower allegations that now-President Joe Biden received a bribe from a foreign official. In a May 3 letter to Wray and Attorney General<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1797,"featured_media":1930273,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[543],"tags":[7074,6350,5591,6203,4920,3653,7836],"class_list":["post-1930272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times","tag-contempt","tag-director","tag-fbi","tag-gop","tag-hold","tag-house","tag-subpoena"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1930272","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\/1797"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1930272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1930272\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1930273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1930272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1930272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1930272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}