Several FBI whistleblowers say that the agency’s probe into Hunter Biden was internally sabotaged during the 2020 election in order to derail the investigation, after agents wrongfully deemed verified evidence as “disinformation” to ignore.
According to Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), agents investigating Hunter “opened an assessment which was used by an FBI headquarters team to improperly discredit negative Hunter Biden information as disinformation and caused investigative activity to cease,” adding that his office received “a significant number of protected communications from highly credible whistleblowers” regarding the investigation.
Grassley added that “verified and verifiable derogatory information on Hunter Biden was falsely labeled as disinformation,” according to the Washington Examiner.
FBI supervisory intelligence agent Brian Auten opened in August 2020 the assessment that was later used by the agency, according to the disclosures. One of the whistleblowers claimed the FBI assistant special agent in charge of the Washington field office, Timothy Thibault, shut down a line of inquiry into Hunter Biden in October 2020 despite some of the details being known to be true at the time.
A whistleblower also said Thibault “ordered closed” an “avenue of additional derogatory Hunter Biden reporting,” according to Grassley, even though “all of the reporting was either verified or verifiable via criminal search warrants.” The senator said Thibault “ordered the matter closed without providing a valid reason as required” and that FBI officials “subsequently attempted to improperly mark the matter in FBI systems so that it could not be opened in the future,” according to the disclosures.
The whistleblowers say investigators from FBI headquarters were “in communication with FBI agents responsible for the Hunter Biden information targeted by Mr. Auten’s assessment,” and that their findings on whether the claims were in fact disinformation were placed “in a restricted access sub-file” in September 2020, according to Grassley, who added that the disclosures “appear to indicate that there was a scheme in place among certain FBI officials to undermine derogatory information connected to Hunter Biden by falsely suggesting it was disinformation.”
Grassley summarized the new allegations in a Monday letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland and FBI Director Christopher Wray.
The Examiner notes that FBI agent Auten was involved in the Trump-Russia investigation, including interviewing Christopher Steele’s primary source, Igor Danchenko.
According to Grassley, the “volume and consistency” of the allegations regarding the handling of the Hunter Biden probe “substantiate their credibility.”
The assessment by Auten in August 2020 was opened the same month Grassley and Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) received a briefing from the FBI “that purportedly related to our Biden investigation and a briefing for which the contents were later leaked in order to paint the investigation in a false light,” Grassley said. The senator said Senate Democrats asked for a briefing in July 2020 “from the very same FBI HQ team that discredited the derogatory Hunter Biden information.”
The FBI inquiry into Hunter Biden reportedly began as a tax investigation, then expanded into a scrutiny of potential money-laundering and foreign lobbying; the DOJ has declined to hand over investigative details. -Washington Examiner
Thibault, the FBI agent who allegedly quashed the Hunter probe, may have violated the Hatch act in 2020 after making posts on social media which were critical of then-president Donald Trump and former AG William Barr.
Also notable – Hunter had the numbers of several FBI agents in his iCloud contacts.
Joe Biden, top Democrats, and virtually the entire mainstream media dismissed the Hunter Biden laptop story as Russian disinformation when bombshell allegations from the New York Post emerged weeks before the 2020 election. In March 2021, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence released a report claiming that figures tied to Russian intelligence promoted “misleading or unsubstantiated allegations” about Joe Biden.
Grassley to Garland and Wra… by Washington Examiner
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That the fbi is the political enforcer and fixer for the ruling elite is not news. What is news is that they will get away with this without the slightest bit of accountability.
Your second sentence isn’t really news either. Rules are for thee mentality and all.
Suck it up folks, the Biden’s are in the club and will never know the meaning of justice. Anyone who thinks the Republicans will deliver justice to the criminally insane members of the club are delusional. Wake the fuck up please!
Well no shit! It would only have been surprising if they had played it straight. Rules are for the little people.
Given that the Manchurian candidate is working on behalf of our enemies, wouldn’t these actions then be treasonous?
It is only treason if someone cares to investigate and nobody wants to look in the closet for fear they might find something incriminating.
It is just like Eric Holder being held in contempt of Congress. It was referred to the DoJ, but Attorney General Holder did not see fit to pursue the charges. Steve Bannon, on the other hand, had charges filed with a quickie trial and judgment, being found guilty as charged.
The Deep State….regardless of party.
Google “anti jewish flyers”. You’ll see stories – all throughout the country – from the last few weeks. The reason I checked Google today is that there was a story on our local NextDoor about someone distributing ziplock plastic bags with corn and “defamatory, anti-semitic pamphlets” across Southwest Minneapolis. Presumably the corn was popcorn used as a weight so they could be thrown.
I predict that no arrests will be made – here or anywhere. Because the FBI would have to arrest themselves. This looks to me like an effort to create fake anti-semitism. Just like last year’s “Stop Asian Hate” bullshit. In other words, it’s a facet of the democrats’ Get Out The Vote effort.
Still waiting for the FBI to crack the case of who put “bombs” by the democrat and republican offices in DC on Jan 5th, 2021. The person is on video, and the video shows him/her (fully masked) using a cell phone. DC is the most camera’d city in the US. There is ZERO chance that the person wouldn’t have been caught (using cell phone data) if it hadn’t been a Deep State operation to plant those non-working “bombs”. Also, I see that Ray Epps wasn’t called to testify at the Dems’ Jan 6th show trial.
Seriously, Google “anti jewish flyers”. Happening in swing states throughout the country. Could it just be ACTUAL anti-semites? Sure. And maybe Rays Epps was an actual Trump supporter.
Here’s one from Glenview, Illinois:
Sandwich bag + pamphlet + rice. Here in Mpls it was sandwich bag + pamphlet + corn.
Glowies.
Haven’t you heard? Epps has been cleared of any and all charges for being in the District of Corruption on 5 & 6 Jan. Encouraging people to go into the capitol is not conspiracy.
The Dept. of Just Us strikes again to protect one of its own.
The FBI is a criminal organization. It needs to be defunded, disbanded, and done away with.