House Republicans in the Oversight Committee have decided against holding a vote to hold FBI Director Christopher Wray in contempt of Congress, but they are not letting up in their investigation into corruption in and around President Joe Biden and his family.
The decision came as the Oversight Committee, scheduled to meet Thursday, received an offer from the FBI that would allow all committee members to review a document from 2020, which is at the core of the investigation. It’s a document that for weeks the agency has refused to say even exists.
Committee Chair James Comer, a Republican from Kentucky made the announcement late Wednesday.
“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,” Comer said on Wednesday.
Earlier in the day, the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability released its prepared resolution and accompanying report recommending that the House of Representatives find FBI Director Wray in contempt of Congress during its Thursday morning meeting.
“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. Once Director Wray confirmed the record’s existence, the FBI started their coverup by leaking a false narrative to the media. The case is not closed as the White House, Democrats, and the FBI would have the American people believe. The FBI created this record based on information from a credible informant who has worked with the FBI for over a decade and paid six figures. The informant had first-hand conversations with the foreign national who claimed to have bribed then-Vice President Biden. And now, Attorney General Barr has confirmed that the record was given to the U.S. Attorney in Delaware for the purpose of that investigation,” said Chairman Comer. “Americans have lost trust in the FBI’s ability to enforce the law impartially and demand answers, transparency, and accountability. The Oversight Committee must follow the facts for the American people and ensure the federal government is held accountable.”
Committee members will be able to view the document in a “secure location,” according to sources. The FBI will allow Comer and ranking member Rep. Jamie Raskin, a Maryland Democrat, to review two additional documents in question.
