{"id":1944582,"date":"2023-06-05T16:17:01","date_gmt":"2023-06-05T20:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/james-comer-announces-contempt-hearings-for-fbi-director-christopher-wray\/"},"modified":"2023-06-05T16:21:09","modified_gmt":"2023-06-05T20:21:09","slug":"james-comer-announces-contempt-hearings-for-fbi-director-christopher-wray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/james-comer-announces-contempt-hearings-for-fbi-director-christopher-wray\/","title":{"rendered":"Comer schedules contempt hearings for FBI Director Wray."},"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\">16<\/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%2Fjames-comer-announces-contempt-hearings-for-fbi-director-christopher-wray%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=1944582&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 Oversight Committee to Hold Contempt Hearings for FBI Director<\/h2>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<figure>\n        <!-- image goes here --><br \/>\n      <\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Republican Chairman of the House Oversight Committee James Comer announced Monday that lawmakers will convene contempt hearings for FBI Director Christopher Wray later this week. <\/p>\n<p>Speaking to reporters in a Capitol Hill press conference, the Kentucky representative charged the FBI with violating a congressional <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/05\/03\/biden-implicated-in-bribery-scheme-grassley-and-comer-allege-in-new-subpoena-demand-to-fbi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">subpoena<\/a> over an unclassified document. The FBI record purportedly implicates President Joe Biden in a $5 million-dollar bribery scheme with a \u201cforeign national\u201d from Biden\u2019s time in the Obama administration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnything short of producing these documents to the House Oversight Committee is not in compliance with the subpoena,\u201d Comer <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/05\/31\/fbi-director-wray-threatened-with-contempt-over-stonewalling-republican-oversight\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">warned<\/a> last week.<\/p>\n<p>The House Oversight chairman viewed the document in a secure SCIF at the Capitol on Monday after agency officials initially refused and demanded lawmakers travel to the FBI headquarters on Pennsylvania Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFBI officials confirmed that the unclassified FBI generated record has not been disproven and is currently being used in an ongoing investigation,\u201d Comer said Monday. \u201cAt the briefing, the FBI again refused to hand over the unclassified record to the custody of the House Oversight Committee, and we will now initiate contempt of Congress hearings this Thursday.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p>\n        <span><\/p>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udea8\ud83d\udea8BREAKING: House Oversight Chair James Comer says the FBI has once again refused &#8220;hand over the unclassified record&#8221; that links then-VP Joe Biden to a pay-for<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/latest-developments-in-hunter-biden-probe-puts-spotlight-on-joe-biden-informant-claim-of-bribery\/\" title=\"Latest Developments in Hunter Biden Probe Puts Spotlight on Joe Biden, Informant Claim of Bribery\">-play bribery scheme<\/a> with a foreign national. Oversight &#8220;will now initiate contempt of Congress hearings this\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2qoas43Igm\">pic.twitter.com\/2qoas43Igm<\/a><\/p>\n<footer>\u2014 Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/charliekirk11\/status\/1665769189813145601?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 5, 2023<\/a><\/footer>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>        <\/span>\n      <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Comer noted the document \u201cappears\u201d to be used in an ongoing FBI probe \u201cwhich I assume is in Delaware\u201d and promised Congress\u2019 own investigation is only in the \u201cbeginning\u201d stages. Agency claims that the document can\u2019t be released, however, are likely to be met with skepticism considering the FBI hired Igor Danchenko as an undercover informant to keep the lies around the Trump-Russia investigation quiet.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans have threatened to hold Wray in contempt of Congress for weeks over the FBI chief\u2019s refusal to hand over the requested record. Comer submitted a subpoena for the document with Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa, a primary watchdog of the Justice Department in the upper chamber.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe believe the FBI possesses an unclassified internal document that includes very serious and detailed allegations implicating the current President of the United States,\u201d Grassley wrote in May. \u201cWhat we don\u2019t know is what, if anything, the FBI has done to verify these claims or investigate further. The FBI\u2019s recent history of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-implicated-in-bribery-scheme-grassley-and-comer-allege-in-new-subpoena-demand-to-fbi\/\" title=\"Biden accused of bribery in new subpoena to FBI.\">botching politically charged investigations demands close congressional oversight<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>[RELATED:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/05\/04\/chuck-grassley-demands-doj-cough-up-document-over-criminal-scheme-involving-joe-biden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Chuck Grassley Demands DOJ Cough Up Document Over Criminal Scheme Involving Joe Biden<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>While the FBI director faces contempt charges over the document implicating the president in a bribery scheme, the agency continues to stonewall congressional requests on a pair of pipe bombs found at\u00a0the DNC and RNC headquarters in Washington, D.C. on Jan. 6, 2021.<\/p>\n<p>House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan of Ohio has demanded an FBI briefing on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/james-comer-announces-contempt-hearings-for-fbi-director-christopher-wray\/\" title=\"Comer schedules contempt hearings for FBI Director Wray.\">pipe bomb investigation multiple times<\/a>. According to Kyle Seraphin, a former FBI agent who worked on the case, the agency previously tracked down the suspect\u2019s car but has not identified the culprit. The FBI also found both bombs to be inoperable.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[READ:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/05\/25\/the-fbi-knows-what-car-was-used-in-j6-dnc-pipe-bomb-but-refuses-to-identify-prime-suspect\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The FBI Knows What Car Was Used In J6 DNC Pipe Bomb, But Refuses To Identify Prime Suspect<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Tristan Justice is the western correspondent for The Federalist and the author of Social Justice Redux, a conservative newsletter on culture, health, and wellness. He has also written for The Washington Examiner and The Daily Signal. His work has also been featured in Real Clear Politics and Fox News. Tristan graduated from George Washington University where he majored in political science and minored in journalism. Follow him on Twitter at @JusticeTristan or contact him at Tristan@thefederalist.com. Sign up for Tristan&#8217;s email newsletter <a href=\"https:\/\/socialjusticeredux.substack.com\/about\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div data-image data-amount=\"5\">\n<h2>Popular<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/#\"><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/#\"><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/#\"><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/#\"><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/#\"><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h3>House Oversight Committee to Hold Contempt Hearings for FBI Director Over Biden Bribery Scheme<\/h3>\n<p>The House Oversight Committee, led by Republican Chairman James Comer, has announced that contempt hearings will be held for FBI Director Christopher Wray later this week. The hearings come after the FBI allegedly violated a congressional subpoena over an unclassified document that implicates President Joe Biden in a $5 million-dollar bribery scheme with a \u201cforeign national\u201d from Biden\u2019s time in the Obama administration. Comer has warned that anything short of producing these documents to the House Oversight Committee is not in compliance with the subpoena. The FBI has refused to hand over the unclassified record to the custody of the House Oversight Committee, and the contempt of Congress hearings will now be initiated on Thursday.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\ud83d\udea8\ud83d\udea8BREAKING: House Oversight Chair James Comer says the FBI has once again refused &#8220;hand over the unclassified record&#8221; that links then-VP Joe Biden to a pay-for-play bribery scheme with a foreign national. Oversight &#8220;will now initiate contempt of Congress hearings this\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2qoas43Igm\">pic.twitter.com\/2qoas43Igm<\/a><\/p>\n<footer>\u2014 Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/charliekirk11\/status\/1665769189813145601?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 5, 2023<\/a><\/footer>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The unclassified FBI generated record has not been disproven and is currently being used in an ongoing investigation. Comer noted that the document \u201cappears\u201d to be used in an ongoing FBI probe \u201cwhich I assume is in Delaware\u201d and promised Congress\u2019 own investigation is only in the \u201cbeginning\u201d stages. Republicans have threatened to hold Wray in contempt of Congress for weeks over the FBI chief\u2019s refusal to hand over the requested record. Comer submitted a subpoena for the document with Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa, a primary watchdog of the Justice Department in the upper chamber.<\/p>\n<p>While the FBI director faces contempt charges over the document implicating the president in a bribery scheme, the agency continues to stonewall congressional requests on a pair of pipe bombs found at\u00a0the DNC and RNC headquarters in Washington, D.C. on Jan. 6, 2021.<\/p>\n<h3>House Judiciary Chairman Demands FBI Briefing on Pipe Bomb Investigation<\/h3>\n<p>House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan of Ohio has demanded an FBI briefing on the pipe bomb investigation multiple times. According to Kyle Seraphin, a former FBI agent who worked on the case, the agency previously tracked down the suspect\u2019s car but has not identified the culprit. The FBI also found both bombs to be inoperable.<\/p>\n<h3>About the Author<\/h3>\n<p>Tristan Justice is the western correspondent for The Federalist and the author of Social Justice Redux, a conservative newsletter on culture, health, and wellness. Follow him on Twitter at @JusticeTristan or contact him at Tristan@thefederalist.com. Sign up for Tristan&#8217;s email newsletter <a href=\"https:\/\/socialjusticeredux.substack.com\/about\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican Chairman of the House Oversight Committee, James Comer, stated that contempt hearings for FBI Director Christopher Wray will be held later this week. The FBI allegedly violated a congressional subpoena regarding an unclassified document that implicates President Trump. 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