The FBI's Foreign Influence Task Force used a sham assessment opened by FBI headquarters to cull reporting from confidential human sources throughout the country related to the Biden family and then falsely brand the intelligence as "Foreign disinformation," Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, revealed Wednesday.
The FBI reportedly fought that request for a month before conducting the June 30, 2020, interview of the CHS. It cannot be a coincidence that a month later Auten launched an assessment that the Foreign Influence Task Force then used "To seek out CHS holdings at FBI Field Offices across the country relating to the Biden family and falsely discredit them as foreign disinformation." After all, if one U.S. attorney's office undertaking a serious assessment of claimed corruption by the Biden family would think to task the FBI with searching its database for potentially relevant CHS reporting, other offices or other investigators might do so as well.
According to the whistleblower, "The Foreign Influence Task Force attempted to shut down" the CHS's "Reporting by falsely saying it was subject to foreign disinformation." "It should be emphasized that the basis for trying to shut down the Biden family 1023 has been described to my office as highly suspect and is contradicted by other documents my office has been told exist within the Foreign Influence Task Force, FBI Seattle Field Office, FBI Baltimore Field Office, and FBI HQ holdings," Grassley stressed.
In his testimony, which The Federalist has reviewed, Thibault explained how he received a call out of the blue from FBI headquarters' Public Corruption Unit chief to discuss the CHS. According to Thibault's testimony, FBI headquarters arranged for Thibault to meet with the Foreign Influence Task Force to learn of its concerns about the CHS, whom Thibault later closed.
It's unknown how many other confidential human sources were closed or whose reporting FBI headquarters or the Foreign Influence Task Force falsely branded as misinformation.
Grassley stressed in his Wednesday letter that "At one point in time the FBI maintained over 40 Confidential Human Sources that provided criminal information relating to Joe Biden, James Biden, and Hunter Biden." Did the FBI investigate the evidence provided by those sources, Grassley asked? Or were those sources improperly shut down? To learn the answers to those questions and others, Grassley notes he has a list of some 25 DOJ and FBI personnel to be interviewed.
The House must first open a long-overdue impeachment inquiry into FBI Director Wray because the latest revelation of the Foreign Influence Task Force's interference in the investigation into the Bidens establishes the director cannot control his swamp creatures.
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