Several “highly credible whistleblowers” told Republican Senator Chuck Grassley about the FBI’s “scheme” to label and discredit negative news about Hunter Biden as “disinformation” before the 2020 election, according to letters obtained by CBS.
“The information provided to my office involves concerns about the FBI’s receipt and use of derogatory information relating to Hunter Biden, and the FBI’s false portrayal of acquired evidence as disinformation. The volume and consistency of these allegations substantiate their credibility and necessitate this letter,” Grassley wrote in a July 25 letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray and Attorney General Merrick Garland.
Grassley claimed a 2020 intelligence assessment about Biden’s criminal financial history was used by the FBI Headquarters to “improperly discredit negative Hunter Biden information as disinformation.”
“The allegations provided to my office 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, the ranking member on the Senate Judiciary Committee, said in the letter.
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Grassley then alleged that another investigation into Biden was ordered closed by agent Timothy Thibault one month before the 2020 election, allegedly due to risk of “disinformation.”
“According to allegations, all of the reporting was either verified or verifiable via criminal search warrants. In addition, ASAC Thibault allegedly ordered the matter closed without providing a valid reason as required by FBI guidelines,” the letter said.
Grassley called on the FBI to release key records about the Biden investigations by August 8, and said that if the allegations are true, the agency and the Justice Department for “being corrupted to their very core.”
“If these allegations are true and accurate, the Justice Department and FBI are – and have been – institutionally corrupted to their very core to the point in which the United States Congress and the American people will have no confidence in the equal application of the law,” he said.
The request comes after Grassley sent a letter to the FBI in May demanding an investigation into Thibault’s alleged pattern of partisan social media activity, which included retweets of the anti-Trump Lincoln Project account. According to Grassley, Thibault has played a prominent role in the investigation into Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election by installing alternate slates of electors.
A federal grand jury investigation into Hunter Biden’s alleged tax violations and questionable foreign dealings is reportedly in its final stages.