The internal FBI documents provide more evidence that the bureau purposely failed to properly investigate allegations of Chinese government meddling in the 2020 U.S. presidential race.
Atop Republican senator released FBI emails Tuesday appearing to show the bureau did not pursue intelligence indicating Communist China was looking to hijack the 2020 presidential election with a potential mail-in ballot scheme to assist then-Democratic nominee Joe Biden.
The bureau appeared, based on the emails, afraid it would undercut then-FBI Director Christopher Wray’s assurances to Congress that foreign meddling did not pose a threat to the presidential race.
The internal FBI emails were made public by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, “revealing the FBI suppressed intelligence of alleged Chinese interference in the 2020 election” to “insulate” then-FBI Wray “from criticism, after Wray provided inaccurate and contradictory testimony to Congress,” the Iowa Republican senator’s office said in a press release.
Wray testified in September before the House and Senate in 2020, before which which he downplayed the potential for significant foreign meddling in the 2020 election, dismissed the possibility of foreign mail-in ballot fraud and said he considered disinformation to be the biggest threat to the presidential election.
Just the News published a story last month revealing that a confidential human source told FBI counter-intelligence in the summer of 2020 that China’s communist government was seeking to meddle in the impending election to help then-candidate Biden, according to a raw intelligence report distributed to federal agencies that was reviewed and made public by Just the News.
The Intelligence Information Report (“IIR”) in question originated with the FBI’s Albany Field Office.