Democrats Defend FBI Stonewalling Comer's Subpoenaed Informant File
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Congressional Democrats defended the FBI’s refusal to provide a subpoenaed informant file to Congress that allegedly links President Joe Biden to a $5 million bribery scheme.
FBI Director Christopher Wray has until Tuesday to deliver the unclassified document that is a record of an interview the FBI conducted with an informant. The document allegedly details an arrangement involving an exchange of money for policy decisions between now-President Biden and a foreign national. The Justice Department did not deny the existence of a record.
ICYMI: FBI Director Chris Wray & James Comer are scheduled to meet in the coming days as the Oversight Chair threatens to hold Wray in contempt of Congress if he refuses to turn over a doc a whistleblower claims shows Biden was involved in a bribery schemehttps://t.co/Z18YyJhZyp
Wray agreed to schedule a meeting with House Oversight James Comer (R-KY) for this week about the status. The scheduled meeting comes after Comer threatened to hold the FBI in contempt of Congress for failing to hand over the unclassified file.
“It just sounds preposterous to me that you will hold the FBI director in contempt over a tip sheet that they think someone submitted to the FBI,” House Oversight Ranking Member Jamie Raskin (D-MD) told Punchbowl News. “[Comer is] making a mountain out of something that is not even a molehill.”
Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-VA), an Oversight Committee member, claimed Comer’s effort to force transparency from the FBI was an “assault” on the bureau.
“It’s part of the assault on the FBI that the Republicans have launched, fueled by Trump’s hatred of the FBI,” he said.
House Republicans on the Oversight Committee see the FBI’s lack of cooperation differently.
“I think it’s clear and obvious that the DOJ, the FBI, Christopher Wray, Merrick Garland, and many others are protecting the Bidens,” Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) exclusively told Breitbart News on Thursday.... (Read more)
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