A Republican representative of the United States stated on Monday that the information possessed by an FBI informant who made an accusation against Vice President Joe Biden could be fatal.
Florida Representative Anna Paulina Luna is a member of the House Oversight Committee. On Monday, the panel’s chairman, Kentucky Republican Rep. James Comer, was briefed on an FBI document containing allegations of a criminal conspiracy involving Biden while he was vice president and a foreign national. The scheme under investigation by Comer’s committee involves payments made in exchange for certain policies.
Comer has demanded complete access to the subpoenaed document and stated that the briefing is insufficient. Following the presentation, the Oversight Committee convened.
Luna was shaken by the news she heard.
“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,” she 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.
— Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (@RepLuna) June 5, 2023
Later, she told Fox News that the FBI’s concerns were “alarming and scary.”
Christopher Wray, director of the FBI, is allegedly in contempt of Congress, according to Luna, who reported that the committee will commence hearings on Thursday.
“We are going to be bringing the FBI Director in before Congress for contempt of Congress proceedings as he is still conniving to shelter the Biden administration from its own sickening corruption,” she said.
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The FBI confirmed the unclassified record alleging then-VP Biden engaged in a $5 million bribery scheme is from a highly credible informant & being used in an ongoing investigation.
The FBI refused to hand over the doc.
I will hold Director Wray in contempt of Congress pic.twitter.com/2p1fNdmBJ1
— Rep. James Comer (@RepJamesComer) June 5, 2023
Comer called the informant who sent the tip to the FBI one of its “most highly credible human sources,” who was paid a “substantial amount of money” by the FBI, according to the New York Post, citing an interview Comer had with Fox News host Sean Hannity on Monday’s “Hannity.”
“He had been a part of the bureau for 13 years, dating back to the Obama administration,” Comer said.
Comer stated that the form detailing allegations of foreign money being used to influence policies was from 2020, but contained information that the FBI was aware of in 2017.
“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. So my question to the FBI was, ‘What exactly have you done with this accusation?’” Comer said.
Republican House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan of Ohio stated on Hannity’s program that the form Comer is requesting “is not a document in the possession of the FBI… this is a document they created.”
“They had a credible source, one of their good sources, who they paid hundreds of thousands of dollars, bring this information to them, and then they create this document,” Jordan said. “We want to see it.”
The Ohio Republican argued that the informant alleging the Biden bribery scheme is likely far more credible than British ex-spy Christopher Steele, who wrote the infamous dossier against then-presidential candidate Donald Trump in 2016 that the FBI used to launch an investigation into Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign.
The Steele dossier was also crucial to the FBI’s “Russia collusion” investigation that plagued Trump’s presidency for years.
“How much you want to bet this source is 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. But they will not let us see this document. I hope they do. I hope they let the American people see it,” Jordan said.