The FBI\u2019s Foreign Influence Task\u200c Force used a sham assessment opened by FBI headquarters\u200b to\u2062 gather information from confidential human sources<\/a> (CHS) across the country regarding the Biden family. \u200bThey then falsely \u200clabeled this intelligence as “foreign\u200d disinformation,” according to Senator Chuck Grassley, \u2063R-Iowa,\u200d who revealed<\/a> this on Wednesday. <\/p>\n

This explosive news highlights the extent of the DOJ and FBI’s efforts to protect \u2064the Biden \u2064family, involving more players than previously known. The involvement of the Foreign Influence Task Force,\u200d in particular, demands immediate action. It calls for\u2064 the House to launch an impeachment inquiry into\u2063 FBI Director \u2064Christopher Wray, who allowed this task force<\/a> to abuse its power and interfere \u2064in a presidential election.<\/p>\n

Later\u200d in\u2062 the \u200cday, Grassley released a seven-page letter addressed to Wray \u2063and Attorney General Merrick Garland.\u2064 In this letter, Grassley not only addressed the\u200c officials but \u200dalso spoke directly to the American public. He revealed evidence of “significant political bias infecting the decision-making of\u200d not only the Attorney General and FBI Director, but also line agents and prosecutors.”<\/p>\n

Grassley’s letter summarized the evidence he has gathered over the past\u200b two years, with the help of Senator\u200c Ron Johnson, \u200bR-Wis.,\u2063 and multiple whistleblowers. Among the\u2063 important details\u2063 in Grassley’s letter is the information about the \u200dassessment opened by FBI headquarters’ Supervisory Intelligence Analyst Brian Auten.<\/p>\n

Last year, Grassley made public a whistleblower’s allegations that \u200dthe FBI \u2064had obtained information about Hunter Biden’s criminal\u200c financial activities \u2064in 2020 but shut down the investigation based on \u2062false claims of foreign disinformation. According to Grassley’s source, the \u2063FBI used an\u2063 assessment\u2063 created by Brian Auten\u2064 to discredit negative information about\u2064 Hunter Biden as disinformation and halt the investigation.<\/p>\n

In his letter to Garland and Wray, Grassley expanded on the whistleblower’s claims, stating that Auten opened the assessment \u200bin August 2020. The Foreign Influence Task Force then used this assessment to search for information related to the Biden \u2062family at FBI Field Offices across the country and falsely label it as\u200c foreign disinformation.<\/p>\n

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The timing of Auten’s assessment is significant because\u200b it followed the FBI’s\u2063 interview on June 30, 2020, with a highly credible\u2062 confidential human source<\/a>\u2064 (CHS) \u200bwho claimed that \u2062the owner of Ukrainian energy company Burisma had paid Hunter \u2062and Joe Biden $5 million each in bribes. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Pennsylvania had requested the FBI\u2062 to search for relevant documents, leading to the interview. Grassley’s letter reveals that during this assessment, FBI officials found an earlier document related to\u2062 an investigation into Burisma and Hunter Biden’s involvement. This prompted further investigation and \u2064the \u2063FBI’s search for derogatory information \u200babout the Bidens.<\/p>\n

It is clear that Auten’s \u2064assessment was not a coincidence. If one U.S.\u200b attorney’s office saw the need to involve the FBI in investigating corruption allegations against \u200dthe Biden family, it \u200bis \u200dlikely \u200dthat other offices and investigators would do\u2064 the same. The FBI’s headquarters sought derogatory information about Hunter Biden and Joe Biden by\u2062 searching field offices, falsely branding\u200d some of\u200b the information as disinformation.<\/p>\n

The exact \u200dnumber of confidential human sources and reports labeled as\u200d disinformation by the\u200b Foreign Influence Task Force is \u200bunknown. However, Grassley’s whistleblower stated that the FBI’s improper branding of\u2063 the information as disinformation led to the cessation of investigative activity.<\/p>\n

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Grassley’s letter also reveals \u200cthat the FD-1023, the document related to the investigation, was vetted by \u2064U.S.\u2062 Attorney Scott\u200c Brady and corroborated some details of the CHS’s \u2063reporting. The U.S. attorneys found no evidence of\u200d Russian\u2063 disinformation. Despite this, the Foreign Influence\u200b Task Force attempted to shut down the CHS’s reporting by falsely\u200b claiming it \u2062was subject to foreign disinformation.<\/p>\n

Grassley emphasizes that the basis for trying to shut down the investigation into\u200b the \u2064Biden\u200b family\u200b is highly suspect and contradicted by other documents held by the Foreign Influence Task Force and \u200dvarious \u2063FBI field offices.<\/p>\n

While the Foreign Influence Task Force \u2062may not have succeeded in shutting down the CHS behind the investigation, their interference was still significant. IRS whistleblower Gary Shapley revealed that Delaware Assistant U.S. Attorney Lesley Wolf, who oversaw the\u2062 Hunter Biden investigation, had already dismissed any evidence from Pittsburgh as disinformation.<\/p>\n

The \u2064Foreign Influence Task Force did\u2064 succeed in shutting down other confidential human sources, including one from the Washington field office. This\u2064 source’s reporting \u200bwas connected to the Hunter Biden investigation, leading the D.C. field office\u200b to provide the reporting to the Delaware field office.<\/p>\n

In \u2062a \u2063recent testimony before the House Judiciary Committee, former FBI assistant special agent \u200bTimothy Thibault revealed that he received a call from FBI headquarters regarding the CHS. Thibault was then\u200b directed to meet with the Foreign\u2064 Influence Task Force to discuss their concerns about the CHS, ultimately leading\u200d to\u2063 the\u200d closure\u200d of the source.<\/p>\n

It is unknown how many \u2064other confidential human sources\u2063 were closed or had their reporting falsely labeled as misinformation by FBI headquarters or the Foreign Influence \u2064Task Force. Grassley’s letter\u2062 highlights that \u200dat one\u2063 point, \u200dthe FBI \u200bhad over 40 \u2063confidential human sources providing\u2062 criminal information<\/a> about \u2064Joe Biden, James Biden, and Hunter Biden.<\/p>\n

Grassley \u2063raises important \u2064questions about\u200d whether the FBI properly investigated\u200b the \u200devidence provided by these sources\u200d or if they were unjustly shut down. He has a list \u200cof DOJ and FBI \u200cpersonnel to be interviewed to find\u2063 answers. It is crucial for the House to\u200c not only question the personnel identified by Grassley but also initiate an impeachment inquiry\u2062 into FBI Director Wray. The revelation \u200cof the \u2062Foreign Influence Task Force’s interference in the Biden investigation demonstrates that Wray cannot control his subordinates.<\/p>\n

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\u2063 What role did U.S. Attorney \u2062Scott Brady play in \u200bvetting the FD-1023\u200d document related to\u200c the\u2063 investigation into the Biden \u200bfamily<\/h2>\n
\u2063The \u200dFBI\u2019s Foreign \u2063Influence \u200cTask Force has\u2064 come under scrutiny for using a sham\u2063 assessment to gather information on \u200cthe\u200b Biden family, according to Senator Chuck\u2063 Grassley. In a letter addressed to FBI Director Christopher Wray and Attorney General\u2063 Merrick Garland, Grassley revealed evidence of political bias and abuse of \u200dpower within the FBI \u2063and DOJ.<\/p>\n
The assessment in question was opened by FBI headquarters’ Supervisory \u2064Intelligence \u200bAnalyst Brian Auten in August 2020.\u2064 The Foreign Influence Task Force then used \u200bthis assessment to search for information regarding the Biden family at FBI Field Offices across the country and falsely labeled it as foreign disinformation. This misleading categorization effectively halted\u200b the\u2064 investigation\u200c into Hunter Biden’s criminal\u200b financial activities.<\/p>\n
The\u200b timing of\u200c Auten’s assessment is noteworthy, as it followed the FBI’s interview with a confidential human source\u200b who alleged \u200bthat the owner of Ukrainian energy company Burisma had paid Hunter and Joe Biden $5 million each in bribes. \u2063This interview prompted\u2064 the \u2064U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District\u2063 of Pennsylvania to request\u200c the FBI’s involvement in the investigation. Grassley’s letter reveals that during Auten’s assessment, FBI officials discovered an earlier document related\u2063 to Burisma \u200dand \u200dHunter Biden’s involvement, leading to further investigation and\u2062 the search \u200bfor derogatory information about the Bidens.<\/p>\n
It is evident that\u200d Auten’s assessment was not a coincidence, as the \u2063involvement \u2062of multiple U.S. attorney’s offices\u200d and investigators suggests \u200ca widespread concern regarding the Biden family’s \u200balleged corruption. However, the FBI’s labeling of\u200d the information as disinformation obstructed the investigation and\u2063 impeded the efforts \u2062to uncover the truth.<\/p>\n
The exact number \u2062of confidential human sources and reports that were falsely labeled as disinformation by the Foreign Influence Task\u2063 Force remains unknown. Grassley’s whistleblower\u200c has stated that this improper branding of information as disinformation led to \u200dthe cessation of investigative activity.<\/p>\n
Grassley’s \u2064letter also highlights that the FD-1023 document related to the\u2064 investigation was vetted by\u2064 U.S. Attorney\u2064 Scott Brady, who found\u2062 no evidence of Russian disinformation. Despite \u2063this, the Foreign Influence \u2064Task Force attempted to shut\u200d down the reporting by \u2064falsely claiming it was subject to foreign disinformation.\u2062 This\u2062 raises doubts about the legitimacy \u2063of the basis for trying \u2064to halt the investigation into the Biden family.<\/p>\n
Although the Foreign \u200cInfluence Task Force may not have succeeded in\u2064 shutting down the investigation entirely, their<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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