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Botany

(70,291 posts)
Wed May 31, 2023, 03:09 PM May 2023

Rep. Comer, How come the FBI will not turn over a document? (that most likely doesn't exsit?*)

House Oversight chair prepares to hold FBI director in contempt over document in Biden probe

* Botany =

House Oversight Chair James Comer, R-Ky., said Tuesday that the committee is moving forward with a vote to hold FBI Director Christopher Wray in criminal contempt of Congress for failing to hand over a document in the panel's investigation into the Biden family’s business dealings.

Comer subpoenaed the FBI this month for a FD-1023 form that he and Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, claim "describes an alleged criminal scheme involving then-Vice President Biden and a foreign national relating to the exchange of money for policy decisions,” without providing further details. The FBI declined to provide the document, saying that it is bound by Justice Department policy, which “strictly limits when and how confidential human source information can be provided outside of the FBI.”

Comer last week threatened to hold Wray in contempt if the FBI didn't provide the information by Tuesday. In a statement Tuesday, the House Oversight chair said the FBI informed the committee that “it will not provide the unclassified documents subpoenaed” by the panel.

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The acting assistant director of the FBI, Christopher Dunham, on Tuesday sent a letter to Comer, prior to his contempt threat. In the letter, obtained by NBC News, Dunham explains why the bureau can’t comply with the committee’s subpoena due to the need to protect human sources.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/house-oversight-prepares-hold-fbi-director-contempt-document-biden-pro-rcna86992

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woodsprite

(11,854 posts)
1. I feel so sorry for ChrisD. It wasn't a job that he sought (hence the 'acting').
Wed May 31, 2023, 03:30 PM
May 2023

Hope he holds his ground and comes out without too much trauma on the other side of having to deal with these shitheads.

Botany

(70,291 posts)
2. Didn't Comer have a whistleblower on the Biden Family scheduled to speak in front of his ...
Wed May 31, 2023, 03:34 PM
May 2023

... committee but the guy never showed up and has an arrest warrant out on him?

https://www.thedailybeast.com/rep-james-comer-says-hes-lost-track-of-his-top-biden-informant

Botany

(70,291 posts)
5. I think the FBI document that Comer wants is much like his eyewitness whistle blower ....
Wed May 31, 2023, 04:03 PM
May 2023

... they are not really real.

Oversight Committee Can’t Find Key Witnesses in Biden Investigation


But one individual who had initially sought refuge with congressional Republicans is indeed missing, although it’s unclear how far he got with the committee.

I reported back in February on Israeli professor and right-wing author Gal Luft’s predicament. He was arrested at an airport in Cyprus on an Interpol warrant for alleged arms trafficking to China and Libya.

Looking to fight extradition, Luft claimed the charges were retaliation for his whistleblowing on Hunter Biden. Luft’s lawyer, a former DOJ prosecutor named Robert Henoch who registered as a foreign agent to lobby Congress on the accused arms trafficker’s behalf, did not respond to request for comment about his client’s current status. Henoch’s profile with the Justice Department shows no activities since his initial filing, though he was hired for the explicit purpose of drafting and sending letters to lawmakers to raise awareness about Luft’s situation (and his client’s alleged dirt on the Bidens). Whether or not any letter was ever drafted or transmitted is unclear, but Comer did mention attempts to connect with Luft during a March Fox News appearance.

Luft got out on bail in Cyprus and then missed his extradition hearing in late March. His abandoned car was discovered a day later. He is still missing.

Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) brought up Luft’s status when I asked her which witness was missing.

https://presspass.thebulwark.com/p/oversight-committee-cant-find-key

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