{"id":1946918,"date":"2023-06-14T11:56:01","date_gmt":"2023-06-14T15:56:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fbi-deputy-director-defends-redactions-in-document-given-to-congress-alleging-biden-bribery-scheme\/"},"modified":"2023-06-14T11:58:08","modified_gmt":"2023-06-14T15:58:08","slug":"fbi-deputy-director-defends-redactions-in-document-given-to-congress-alleging-biden-bribery-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fbi-deputy-director-defends-redactions-in-document-given-to-congress-alleging-biden-bribery-scheme\/","title":{"rendered":"FBI defends redactions in document alleging Biden bribery scheme given to Congress."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/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%2Ffbi-deputy-director-defends-redactions-in-document-given-to-congress-alleging-biden-bribery-scheme%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=1946918&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>FBI Admits Redactions in Document Related to Alleged Recordings Between Burisma Executive and Bidens<\/h2>\n<div class=\"post_content\">\n<div class=\"aplayer_app\" data-source=\"https:\/\/vs1.youmaker.com\/assets\/2023\/0614\/ddfce3cf-b67b-49f3-a53f-1c2d239f953e\/audio.mp3?length=3970125&#038;duration=331\"><\/div>\n<p>The FBI has admitted to redacting parts of a document related to alleged audio recordings between a Burisma executive and President Joe Biden and his son, Hunter Biden. FBI Deputy Director Paul Abbate made the admission during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on June 13 while being questioned by Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.).<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>We often redact documents to protect sources and methods. What I will tell you with respect to the document, the document was redacted to protect the source, as everyone knows\u2014and this is a question of life and death, potentially.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Republicans have claimed that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fbi-deputy-director-defends-redactions-in-document-given-to-congress-alleging-biden-bribery-scheme\/\" title=\"FBI defends redactions in document alleging Biden bribery scheme given to Congress.\">unclassified document contained<\/a> a redacted reference to the recordings, which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sen-grassley-ukrainian-executive-named-in-allegations-about-bidens-taped-calls-for-insurance\/\" title=\"Sen. Grassley: Ukrainian Executive Named in Allegations About Bidens Taped Calls for \u2018Insurance\u2019\">allegedly include 15 phone conversations<\/a> between the executive of Burisma Holdings and Hunter Biden, who sat on the board of the Ukrainian natural gas firm. It also included two <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-audio-think-tanks-star-lawsuit-witness-admits-to-tommy-robinson-that-they-bribed-him-for-testimony-against-us-congressional-staffer\/\" title=\"EXCLUSIVE AUDIO: Think Tank\u2019s Star Lawsuit Witness Admits to Tommy Robinson That They Bribed Him For Testimony Against US Congressional Staffer\">phone calls<\/a> between the executive and then-Vice President Joe Biden, according to Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa).<\/p>\n<h3>Redactions Made to \u2018Protect Source\u2019<\/h3>\n<p>Blackburn repeatedly questioned Abbate over the redactions during Monday\u2019s hearing, which took place on the same day that former President Donald Trump appeared in a Miami court and pleaded not guilty to 37 counts of charges in the federal government\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/five-key-people-in-the-biden-classified-docs-scandal\/\" title=\"Five Key People in the Biden Classified Docs Scandal\">classified document case<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Abbate defended the decision to limit what Republicans saw in the document while also dismissing Blackburn\u2019s claims that the FBI has become politicized.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIs your job to defend and shield Joe Biden or is your job to protect this country and the constitution of the United States? Which is it?\u201d Blackburn asked, to which Abbate responded that the agency\u2019s job was to \u201cprotect the country, keep people safe, and uphold the constitution of our great country \u2026 objectively.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it would be helpful when you came before us if you were willing to answer the questions, it would help to remove the perception that the American people have\u2014they see you do it every day\u2014and that is politicizing the FBI and using it against the American people who don\u2019t happen to be named Biden, Clinton, or one of the elites,\u201d Blackburn responded.<\/p>\n<h3>\u2018Where\u2019s the Money?\u2019<\/h3>\n<p>Following Tuesday\u2019s hearing, Blackburn led a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland calling on him to appoint a special counsel to investigate any potential wrongdoing by Biden and his family in their business dealings. The letter was co-signed by Sens. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) and Mike Braun (R-Ind.) and accused the Department of Justice of having \u201cblatantly ignored the credible allegations of President Biden\u2019s and his family\u2019s corruption.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The FBI informant claims that the owner of Burisma paid $5 million in a bribery scheme with a foreign national in exchange for certain actions. The informant alleged that another $5 million payment was also made to Hunter Biden.<\/p>\n<h3>Key Takeaways:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>The FBI has admitted to redacting parts of a document related to alleged audio recordings between a Burisma executive and President Joe Biden and his son, Hunter Biden.<\/li>\n<li>Republicans have claimed that the unclassified document contained a redacted reference to the recordings, which allegedly include 15 phone conversations between the executive of Burisma Holdings and Hunter Biden.<\/li>\n<li>Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) has called on Attorney General Merrick Garland to appoint a special counsel to investigate any potential wrongdoing by Biden and his family in their business dealings.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FBI Deputy Director Paul Abbate acknowledged redacting portions of a document given to Republican lawmakers, which allegedly contained references to audio recordings between Burisma&#8217;s executive and President Joe Biden and his son, Hunter Biden. Abbate made the admission during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on June 13.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":69,"featured_media":1946919,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[5299,3620,20427,4402,4549,11014,5591,10058,8020],"class_list":["post-1946918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times","tag-alleging","tag-biden","tag-bribery","tag-congress","tag-defends","tag-document","tag-fbi","tag-redactions","tag-scheme"],"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\/1946918","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\/69"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1946918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1946918\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1946919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1946918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1946918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1946918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}