The informant that the FBI has been in contact with concerning the bribery investigation in Joe Biden is fearing for his or her life. Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) disclosed that this week during a meeting of the House Oversight Committee. Still, Democrats walked away with a different conclusion, and imaginations ran wild. Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), the ranking member on House Oversight, claimed that this was a political witch hunt against Biden, insinuating that the president was cleared of any wrongdoing under Attorney General William Barr and the Trump-appointed US attorney who first investigated these claims. Raskin further elaborated that Rudy Giuliani brought forward the initial allegations related to Ukraine.
As The Federalist noted, that’s not true. Former Attorney General William Barr also said the investigation was never shut down or concluded, instead being forwarded to the attorney’s office in Delaware for further review. Margot Cleveland also elaborated that Raskin’s inability to keep up with timelines exposes more rot at the FBI, which has long been accused of running interference against any probes into the Biden family, especially Hunter. Cleveland adds that the FD-1023, the report filed containing information from informants, was in no way connected to Giuliani or Ukraine. It stood on its own, and there was another similar informant report filed in 2017 that contained the same information (via The Federalist) [emphasis mine]:
“It’s not true. It wasn’t closed down,” William Barr told The Federalist on Tuesday in response to Democrat Rep. Jamie Raskin’s claim that the former attorney general and his “handpicked prosecutor” had ended an investigation into a confidential human source’s allegation that Joe Biden had agreed to a $5 million bribe. “On the contrary,” Barr stressed, “it was sent to Delaware for further investigation.”
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The ranking member of the House Oversight Committee also falsely suggested the CHS’s allegations were related to the investigation of information Rudy Giuliani had unearthed of the Biden family corruption in Ukraine.
Not so, according to an individual familiar with the investigation who told The Federalist that the CHS [confidential human source] and the FD-1023 summary of his statement were both “unrelated to Rudy Giuliani” and “not derived” from any information Giuliani provided. This corroborates the House Oversight Committee’s representation that the June 30, 2020, FD-1023 “stands on its own” and was not part of the documents Giuliani provided the FBI in January 2020.
In fact, according to the House Oversight Committee, the FD-1023 in question “contains information from the FBI’s confidential human source dating back to another FD-1023 generated in 2017,” which completely removes Giuliani from the mix.
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These new revelations prove significant for two reasons. First, there’s the underlying scandal of the FBI’s alleged failure to investigate the FD-1023 and FBI Supervisory Intelligence Analyst Brian Auten’s opening of an assessment in August 2020 to discredit that information, which “caused investigative activity to cease.”
Knowing that the FD-1023 originated in Brady’s Western District of Pennsylvania proves explosive because Grassley’s whistleblower alleged that in September 2020, FBI headquarters placed the information contained in Auten’s assessment in a restricted-access sub-file that only the particular agents who uncovered the CHS’s info could access. How then could the FBI agents in Delaware further investigate the allegations?
And those allegations, further detailed by Comer on Tuesday, are shocking. “A trusted confidential human source obtained information from a foreign national who claimed to have bribed then-Vice President Biden,” Comer told The Federalist. So the CHS didn’t just pass on information from some random third party: He spoke directly with the individual who claimed to have bribed Biden.