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Despite big talk, House Republicans cancel vote to charge FBI Director Wray with contempt after bureau grants access to damning record



House Republicans were poised to vote Thursday to charge FBI Director Christopher Wray with contempt of Congress after the bureau refused to comply with a congressional subpoena for well over a month. It appears, however, that both Republicans and the FBI flinched at the last moment.

The FBI decided Wednesday to provide the House Oversight Committee full access to the sought-after document detailing alleged criminal activity involving President Joe Biden.

In turn, House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) removed the vote to hold Wray in contempt from Thursday's schedule.

The House Oversight Committee had released a resolution and accompanying report earlier in the day, recommending the House of Representatives hold Wray in contempt of Congress and setting a vote for Thursday at 9:00 a.m.

"We have been clear that the FBI must produce the unclassified FD-1023 record to the custody of the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability. To date, the FBI has refused to comply with our lawfully issued subpoena and even refused to admit the record’s existence up until a week ago," Comer said in a statement.

Congressional Republicans subpoenaed the FBI in early May for a document possibly containing evidence of an alleged criminal scheme involving Biden and, according to ranking member Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), corrupt dealings in Ukraine.

Comer and Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) noted in a corresponding May 3 letter addressed to Attorney General Merrick Garland and Wray that the form contains "valuable, verifiable information" describing "an alleged criminal scheme involving then-Vice President Biden and a foreign national relating to the exchange of money for policy decisions."

The FBI missed various deadlines, including the initial May 10 deadline and a May 30 deadline.

The bureau showed Comer and Raskin the document in a secure room Monday; however, this secretive showcase did not placate House Republicans, who stressed that the FBI had still not satisfied the demands of the May subpoena.

Just hours after Comer released his Wednesday resolution, stressing the need to hold the federal government accountable, the FBI finally offered to give every lawmaker on the committee access to a redacted version of the FD-1023 record, reported the Associated Press.

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) reportedly indicated that would suffice, reported the New York Times.

“He needs to show it to every Republican and every Democrat on the committee,” said McCarthy. "If he is willing to do that, then there’s not a need to have contempt."

While McCarthy was satisfied, it was not clear that Comer would accept the FBI's last-minute offer, particularly since he had long stressed that only the provision of an unredacted version of the record would qualify as compliance with the congressional subpoena.

Comer ultimately budged, stating, "After weeks of refusing to even admit the FD-1023 record exists, the FBI has caved and is now allowing all members of the Oversight and Accountability Committee to review this unclassified record that memorializes a confidential human source’s conversations with a foreign national who claimed to have bribed then-Vice President Joe Biden"

The Kentucky Republican added, "Allowing all Oversight Committee members to review this record is an important step toward conducting oversight of the FBI and holding it accountable to the American people."

Rep. Raskin appeared relieved that Comer wouldn't ultimately hold Wray's feet to the fire, stating, "Holding someone in contempt of Congress is among the most serious actions our Committee can take and it should not be weaponized to undermine the FBI"

Republicans have yet to wield the contempt power since taking the House, whereas Democrats previously used it liberally, having recently charged former President Donald Trump advisers Steve Bannon and Peter Navarro.

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FBI is afraid informant with info on alleged Biden bribery scandal will be murdered if unmasked, says Rep. Luna



A member of the House Oversight Committee claimed Monday that the FBI fears an informant with insights into an alleged criminal bribery scheme involving President Joe Biden "will be killed" if unmasked.

Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) tweeted, "Just left meeting for House Oversight. The @FBI is afraid their informant will be killed if unmasked, based on the info he has brought forward about the Biden family."

Luna noted in a subsequent tweet, "According to the @FBI, Biden as VP was involved in a 5 million dollar bribery scheme with a foreign national."

Luna made these claims after House Oversight Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) and ranking member Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) glimpsed an unclassified document the FBI has worked hard to keep under wraps, which reportedly contains "valuable, verifiable information" describing an alleged $5 million "criminal scheme involving then-Vice President Biden and a foreign national relation to the exchange of money for policy decisions."

After examining the document in a secure environment, Comer announced, "Today, FBI officials confirmed that the unclassified FBI-generated record has not been disproven and is currently being used in an ongoing investigation," adding that the investigation is likely being undertaken in Biden's home state of Delaware.

Comer continued, stating, "The confidential human source who provided information about then-Vice President Biden being involved in a criminal bribery scheme is a trusted, highly-credible informant who has been used by the FBI for over 10 years and has been paid over six figures. ... These are facts and no amount of spin, and frankly lies, from the White House or congressional Democrats can change this information."

The House Oversight chair later told Fox News host Sean Hannity that the source, whom the FBI allegedly said would be endangered if exposed, is one of the bureau's "most highly credible human sources" — who had been "part of the bureau for 13 years, dating back to the Obama administration," reported the New York Post.

Comer said during his interview with Hannity, "This particular document was dated in 2020. But there are notes in the document that date back to 2017. We believe that this human source initially informed the FBI of the bribery scheme back in 2017."

According to Comer, the claims in the file comport with the Oversight Committee's earlier findings pertaining to subpoenaed bank records showing the "Bidens' foreign entanglements."

In early May, the committee revealed "thousands of pages of financial records" allegedly showing that the Biden family and their associates created a "complicated network of companies" in an attempt to conceal millions of dollars of payments from foreign businesses.

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) suggested that the informant who supplied information on the alleged criminal scheme involving Biden may be "a lot more credible than Christopher Steele, the guy who created the dossier that they used to go after President Trump. I bet you this source has a lot more credibility."

The FBI's alleged claim that the informant, who could shed some additional light on this matter, would be at risk if unmasked has been met with suspicion and surprise online.

Bob Hoge of RedState suggested that this "sounds like another attempt at an excuse by Wray as to why they won’t produce the information that Comer demands."

Former Trump advisor Kash Patel appeared to agree, writing on Truth Social, "FBI is running their fictional traps, telling Congress if the source is revealed in the subpoenaed document to Chairman Comer- the source will die. we heard this same pretextual farce from the same FBI Director, Wray, when he told @DevineNunes and I while running Russia Gate- if FBI reveals Steel n co, sources will die, and nations will crumble."

Patel added, "No one died, the only thing that crumbled was the FBI for its corruption coverup."

Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) responded to Luna, "Oh my."

Rogan O’Handley, a conservative commentator with Turning Point USA, responded to Luna, tweeting, "The FBI is not only confirming the bribery evidence is real, but that the Biden Crime Family may murder people trying to expose them We live in a 3rd world dictatorship."

For refusing to turn over the unclassified document to lawmakers as legally required, House Republicans will initiate contempt of Congress hearings against FBI Director Christopher Wray on Thursday.

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