FBI Director Wray Calls Report of Bureau’s Alleged Mishandling of Hunter Biden Probe ‘Deeply Troubling’
At a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Aug. 4, FBI Director Christopher Wray said he found “deeply troubling” a whistleblowers’ report alleging a concerted effort within the agency to discredit accurate information about Hunter Biden during the bureau’s investigation in 2020.
The report claiming widespread efforts within the FBI to downplay or mishandle information about the son of President Joe Biden was made public by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), the ranking member on the Senate Judiciary Committee, in a letter (pdf) he sent to Wray and Attorney General Merrick Garland on July 25.
“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,” the letter says, noting that “the volume and consistency of these allegations substantiate their credibility.”
Based on the timeline set forth in the letter, “the FBI developed information in 2020 about Hunter Biden’s criminal financial and related activity.”
Grassley pointed to Washington Field Office Assistant Special Agent in Charge Timothy Thibault, accusing him of potentially violating federal laws and rules established by the FBI. To wit, Grassley alleged there is evidence that Thibault had partisan bias when handling investigations into the Trump campaign and Hunter Biden.
Dodging the Question
At the hearing, when asked by Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) to confirm the authenticity of the allegations, Wray dodged the question.
“I want to be very careful not to interfere with ongoing personnel matters,” Wray said, but admitted that the disclosures were “deeply troubling.”
Also according to whistleblowers, the FBI came into possession of information about Hunter Biden’s “criminal financial and related activity” in 2020, which prompted FBI supervisory intelligence analyst Brian Auten to open an assessment in August 2020.
An FBI headquarters team subsequently
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