We’ve been reporting on the information being revealed by whistleblowers about the politicization of the FBI, that there were wider questions being raised beyond Hunter Biden, including cases allegedly being dropped or pursued based on politics, as well as the FBI pressuring agents to pad statistics when it came to the question of domestic extremism.
But there’s more when it comes to the question of Hunter Biden. As Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) explained, according to the whistleblowers, some in the FBI improperly trying to block the investigation. Both Congress and the FBI had been looking into Hunter Biden.
The whistleblowers, Grassley explained, had further claimed that “in August of 2020, FBI supervisory intelligence analyst Brian Auten opened an assessment, which was used by a team of agents at FBI headquarters to improperly discredit and falsely claim that derogatory information about Biden’s activities was disinformation, causing investigative activity and sourcing to be shut down.” “The FBI headquarters team allegedly placed their assessment findings in a restricted access subfolder, effectively flagging sources and derogatory evidence related to Hunter Biden as disinformation while shielding the justification for such findings from scrutiny,” according to Grassley.
Auten had previously been referred for disciplinary action in regard to the Trump-Russia probe, and here he was again involved when it came to Hunter Biden. Auten failed to identify the fact that Igor Danchenko had undermined the dossier when the FBI analyst circulated an intelligence memo on the dossier source in February 2017.