The Federal Bureau of Investigation has once again refused to provide the House Oversight Committee with an unclassified 2020 document containing detailed information about an alleged bribery scheme involving Joe Biden. That the document exists is not in question. Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) and ranking member Jamie Raskin (D-MD) viewed the memo on June 5 in a sensitive compartmented information facility (SCIF) on Capitol Hill. That wasn’t good enough for Comer, though, who will now bring a contempt of Congress charge against FBI Director Christopher Wray. The Biden family corruption scandal, mostly ignored by the establishment media, is not going away anytime soon.
The FD-1023 document contains details provided by an FBI human intelligence source who has reportedly been on the payroll for several years. Considered a trusted and credible source, the unidentified individual has cooperated with the Bureau on several previous investigations. The FBI has not said that anything in the memo has been disproven but claims it is material to an ongoing three-year investigation. The alleged scheme involved Biden – while he served as Barack Obama’s vice president – and an unnamed foreign national. The latter apparently paid, offered to pay, or was asked to pay around $5 million to be granted certain unspecified favor in policy decisions. If accurate, then bribery is the only suitable word to describe such an arrangement.
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The FBI’s reticence in this matter, despite a previous warning from Republicans, has served only to further fuel widespread suspicion that Biden family corruption is very real and very well-established. Considering the frequency with which information passes from government sources to the media when it serves to damage one political candidate or protect another, one might speculate that the contents of this document are extremely incriminating. No media outlet has been given more than a very vague outline of what the memo contains, and, when not even the Oversight Committee is granted custody of the form, the implications are serious indeed.
James Comer (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
The fact that Comer was not allowed to keep the memo is what prompted him to move ahead with threatened contempt charges against Wray. “At the briefing, the FBI again refused to hand over the unclassified record to the custody of the House Oversight Committee,” Comer told reporters, “and we will now initiate contempt of Congress proceedings.”
Congressional Democrats, who during the Trump presidency insisted that oversight of the executive branch was their solemn duty and not to be hindered, are now surprisingly (or not) unfazed by the whole Biden family corruption probe. After viewing the FBI document, Raskin sputtered his way through an unconvincing attempt to question its veracity. In a distinctly Kamala Harris-esque manner, Raskin told the press, "The work we're talking about is secondhand hearsay and so it's not the source – the confidential source – who is the origin of the particular claim … that that confidential source is the person who reported it; that someone else was saying this."
Raskin was one of the Democrats’ most vocal promoters of the debunked Trump-Russia conspiracy theory. At the time, he did not express a word of concern that the infamous Steele dossier, used to launch an FBI investigation of Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, contained nothing but media reports and second- and even third-hand hearsay, none of which was ever verified. Comer pushed back against attempts to dismiss the Biden bribery memo, saying, “These are facts and no amount of spin and, frankly, lies from the White House or congressional Democrats can change this information.”
It's safe to assume that, in the next few months and all the way up to the 2024 election, the American people are going to be hearing a lot more about this document and about the wider Biden family corruption scandal. Comer will reportedly advance contempt charges against Wray as early as June 8.
