{"id":2496496,"date":"2025-10-08T19:28:02","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T23:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bidens-cia-ukraine-cover-up-fuels-gop-calls-for-corruption-inquiry\/"},"modified":"2025-10-08T19:29:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T23:29:15","slug":"bidens-cia-ukraine-cover-up-fuels-gop-calls-for-corruption-inquiry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bidens-cia-ukraine-cover-up-fuels-gop-calls-for-corruption-inquiry\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden\u2019s CIA Ukraine cover-up fuels GOP calls for corruption inquiry"},"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\">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%2Fbidens-cia-ukraine-cover-up-fuels-gop-calls-for-corruption-inquiry%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=2496496&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>The article reports that newly declassified CIA documents reveal that then-Vice President Joe Biden allegedly intervened in late 2015 to suppress a CIA report concerning his family&#8217;s business connections in Ukraine. The report,which was blocked from circulation,detailed how Ukrainian officials privately questioned Hunter Biden&#8217;s lucrative position on the board of Burisma Holdings,an energy company linked to corruption investigations. Ukrainian officials were reportedly disappointed by Joe Biden&#8217;s visit to Kyiv, expecting discussions on anti-corruption efforts but receiving only broad public remarks. <\/p>\n<p>Republican lawmakers, including House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, called this suppression a significant political cover-up <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >involving high-level intelligence officials<\/a> and the Obama administration. Additional FBI evidence cited by Senator chuck Grassley alleges that Burisma executives paid Joe and Hunter Biden millions to secure the firing of ukraine&#8217;s prosecutor general, Viktor Shokin. Joe Biden publicly admitted pressuring Ukraine to remove Shokin by threatening to withhold U.S.aid in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Attorney General Pam Bondi stated the FBI is actively investigating these bribery allegations.The scrutiny aligns with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jp-morgan-shareholders-hand-jamie-dimon-a-rare-rebuke-disapprove-52-6-million-bonus\/\" title=\"JP Morgan Shareholders Hand Jamie Dimon a Rare Rebuke, Disapprove .6 Million Bonus\">long-standing concerns<\/a> about Biden family corruption and possible <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dual-citizen-pentagon-employee-busted-with-classified-docs-while-trying-to-get-to-international-flight\/\" title=\"Dual Citizen Pentagon Employee Busted with Classified Docs While Trying to Get to International Flight\">national security risks due<\/a> to Joe Biden&#8217;s access to sensitive intelligence. While legal experts see political and legal challenges to reopening criminal inquiries, some advocates urge further inquiry. Meanwhile,the House Oversight Committee has not announced plans for new hearings on the matter. <br \/> <!DOCTYPE html><br \/>\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Biden&rsquo;s suppression of CIA report on Ukraine trip bolsters calls for FBI review of corruption evidence<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2366518\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>Newly declassified intelligence records show then-Vice President&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/joe-biden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Joe Biden<\/a>&nbsp;in late 2015 allegedly intervened to suppress a CIA report that raised concerns about his family&rsquo;s business ties in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/ukraine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Ukraine<\/a>, a revelation that Republicans say confirms a &ldquo;massive cover-up&rdquo; involving top intelligence officials and the former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/obama-administration\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Obama administration<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cia.gov\/static\/Ukraine_Redacted_Final.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bidens-ministry-of-truth-was-far-more-sinister-than-we-knew\/\" title=\"Biden&#039;s &quot;Ministry of Truth&quot; Was Far More Sinister Than We Knew\">newly revealed documents<\/a><\/a>, declassified Tuesday by CIA Director <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/john-ratcliffe\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">John Ratcliffe<\/a>, allege that Biden personally sought to block the circulation of a 2016 CIA assessment describing how Ukrainian officials privately questioned <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/hunter-biden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Hunter Biden<\/a>&rsquo;s lucrative position at energy company Burisma Holdings. The report was shelved after a person identified in an email only as &ldquo;PDF Briefer&rdquo; allegedly told the agency the vice president &ldquo;would strongly prefer&rdquo; it not be disseminated on Feb. 10, 2016.<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/3842071\/classified-material-introduced-james-comey-trial-prosecutors-say\/\">Classified material will be introduced in Comey trial, prosecutors say<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/3841453\/comey-makes-history-as-first-former-fbi-director-to-face-arraignment\/\">Comey makes history as first former FBI director to face arraignment<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/3841317\/trump-sees-momentum-in-legal-fights-over-national-guard-deployments\/\">Trump&#8217;s National Guard push gains steam thanks to strong legal footing<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">FILE &ndash; President Joe Biden walks out to speak in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Nov. 26, 2024. (AP Photo\/Ben Curtis, File)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>According to the unclassified report, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and senior members of his administration were &ldquo;bewildered and disappointed&rdquo; by Joe Biden&rsquo;s December 2015 trip to Kyiv, saying they expected him to discuss personnel issues and anti-corruption policy. Instead, he delivered a broad public speech while declining to engage on substantive matters.<\/p>\n<p>Privately, Ukrainian officials &ldquo;mused at the U.S. media scrutiny of the alleged ties of the U.S. Vice President&rsquo;s family to corrupt business practices in Ukraine,&rdquo; the CIA report said.<\/p>\n<p>Hunter Biden joined Burisma&rsquo;s board in 2014, while its owner, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/1447126\/comer-demands-treasury-hand-over-burisma-records-in-biden-investigation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Mykola Zlochevsky<\/a>, was under investigation for money laundering and corruption. The younger Biden&rsquo;s role overlapped with his father&rsquo;s position as then-President Barack Obama&rsquo;s point man on Ukraine policy &mdash; a dual track that Kyiv officials described as evidence of a &ldquo;double standard&rdquo; within the U.S. government on corruption.<\/p>\n<p>House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) said the buried CIA assessment and related evidence represent one of the most brazen instances of political interference ever uncovered.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Committee Chairman Rep. James Comer (R-KY) speaks during a hearing of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on Capitol Hill, Thursday, Sept. 18, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo\/Mark Schiefelbein)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&ldquo;This was a huge cover-up,&rdquo; Comer told Newsmax&rsquo;s <em>Rob Schmitt Tonight<\/em>. &ldquo;The cover-up may be worse than the crime. Thank goodness for John Ratcliffe. Thank goodness that he&rsquo;s finally put the truth out there so the American people can see.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Comer accused Joe Biden&rsquo;s inner circle, with help from sympathetic intelligence figures, of concealing the report to preserve his image ahead of the 2020 election.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Not only is the Biden family corrupt,&rdquo; Comer said, &ldquo;the government is corrupt.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Shame on the CIA for covering this up.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The revelations dovetail with long-standing FBI materials cited by&nbsp;Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), who has pressed the bureau to account for an informant file, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.grassley.senate.gov\/imo\/media\/doc\/fd_1023_obtained_by_senator_grassley_-_biden.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">known as an&nbsp;FD-1023<\/a>, that alleged Burisma executives paid $5 million each to Joe and Hunter Biden to secure the firing of Ukraine&rsquo;s prosecutor general,&nbsp;Viktor Shokin.<\/p>\n<p>According to that confidential source&rsquo;s account, Burisma founder&nbsp;Mykola Zlochevsky&nbsp;told colleagues that Hunter Biden&rsquo;s role was to &ldquo;protect us, through his dad, from all kinds of problems,&rdquo; and that &ldquo;Hunter will take care of all those issues through his dad.&rdquo; The source further claimed there were&nbsp;text messages, financial records, and recorded calls between Zlochevsky and the Bidens, including at least two that allegedly featured Joe Biden himself.<\/p>\n<p>In 2018, Joe Biden publicly recounted his actions that led Ukraine to remove Shokin by threatening to withhold $1 billion in aid. &ldquo;I looked at them and said, &lsquo;I&rsquo;m leaving in six hours. If the prosecutor is not fired, you&rsquo;re not getting the money,&rsquo;&rdquo; he told the Council on Foreign Relations. &ldquo;Well, son of a b****. He got fired.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&ldquo;I said, I&rsquo;m telling you, you&rsquo;re not getting the billion dollars. I said, you&rsquo;re not getting the billion. I&rsquo;m going to be leaving here in, I think it was about six hours,&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p>If the prosecutor is not fired, you&rsquo;re not getting the money.&rsquo; Well, son of a bitch. He got fired.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Buwoa0948y\">pic.twitter.com\/Buwoa0948y<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; John Cullen &#128019; (@I_Am_JohnCullen) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/I_Am_JohnCullen\/status\/1666970064082575360?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 9, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>    <\/p>\n<p>Attorney General <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/pam-bondi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Pam Bondi<\/a> told senators Tuesday that the FBI is &ldquo;working hard&rdquo; to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fbi-working-hard-to-investigate-biden-bribery-evidence-bondi\/\" title=\"... \u2018working hard\u2019 to ...: Bondi\">investigate records tied<\/a> to the long-standing bribery allegations involving Joe and Hunter Biden.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I know Director Patel is working hard on this with the members of the FBI,&rdquo; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/3840762\/fbi-working-hard-investigate-biden-bribery-evidence-pam-bondi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Bondi said<\/a>, marking the strongest public acknowledgment to date that the bureau is revisiting the FD-1023 materials cited by Grassley.<\/p>\n<p>The renewed scrutiny comes over a year after former special counsel Robert Hur&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/storage\/report-from-special-counsel-robert-k-hur-february-2024.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">final report<\/a>, which focused narrowly on then-President Joe Biden&rsquo;s retention of classified documents from his time as vice president, drew criticism from Republicans for sidestepping potential overlaps between Joe Biden&rsquo;s business dealings and his access to sensitive intelligence, despite calling into question his mental capacity.<\/p>\n<p>Hur&rsquo;s investigation concluded that Joe Biden had &ldquo;willfully retained&rdquo; classified materials about foreign policy in Ukraine and Afghanistan but declined to bring charges, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/2845770\/hur-report-biden-as-elderly-man-poor-memory\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">citing his age and &ldquo;poor memory.&rdquo;<\/a> The report described Joe Biden as an &ldquo;elderly man with a poor memory,&rdquo; and he opted not to press charges, saying he believed many jurors would &ldquo;want to identify reasonable doubt.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Mike Howell, executive director of the Oversight Project, called Hur a &ldquo;cover-up artist&rdquo; who only investigated where Joe Biden had classified information but &ldquo;never in connection with his business practices.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;President Trump should officially reject special counsel Hur&rsquo;s recommendations from his report and order the DOJ to reopen a broad inquiry drawing on what Hur did and did not do to fill in the holes,&rdquo; Howell said. &ldquo;Because now we know there is way more evidence of Biden family corruption that still needs to be dealt with, but also from the perspective of what leakages and damages could have harmed our national security. It&rsquo;s time to finish the job that Hur would never do.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Still, former federal prosecutor Bill Shipley said the political appetite for any new inquiry could be subdued.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s an oversight issue; it would have to be a congressional investigation for purposes of oversight,&rdquo; Shipley told the&nbsp;<em>Washington Examiner<\/em> when asked what could be done about the CIA director&rsquo;s release. But he noted there would be difficulties to renew something more substantial like a criminal investigation into the Bidens, citing the former president&rsquo;s &ldquo;unconditional&rdquo; pardon that spans his tenure at Burisma.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/3840762\/fbi-working-hard-investigate-biden-bribery-evidence-pam-bondi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">FBI &lsquo;WORKING HARD&rsquo; TO INVESTIGATE BIDEN BRIBERY EVIDENCE: BONDI<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>So far, there are no indications that the House Oversight Committee intends to schedule new hearings over corruption allegations against the Bidens after its impeachment report against the former president in August last year, a month after he bowed out of the 2024 election. The committee is finalizing a report regarding the former president&rsquo;s reliance on an&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/autopen\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">autopen<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Washington Examiner <\/em>contacted the CIA to inquire about additional declassifications, but did not receive a response.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biden&#8217;s Ukraine CIA report suppression fuels FBI probe calls<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2633,"featured_media":2496497,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/AP24337029525062.jpg?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[3620,7362,64856,6203,6991],"class_list":["post-2496496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-biden","tag-cia","tag-corruption-inquiry","tag-gop","tag-ukraine"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/AP24337029525062.jpg?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2496496","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\/2633"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2496496"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2496496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2496500,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2496496\/revisions\/2496500"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2496497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2496496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2496496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2496496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}