A Republican member of Congress claimed on Monday that President Joe Biden could lose his life as a result of information that an FBI informant used to make a false accusation against him.
The Florida representative Anna Paulina Luna serves on the House Oversight Committee.
The panel’s chairman, Republican Rep. James Comer of Kentucky, who holds the document that alleges a criminal conspiracy between Biden while he was vice president and a foreign person, was briefed on it on Monday.
The system that Comer’s panel is looking into revolves around payments that are given in exchange for particular policies.
Comer claimed that the briefing was insufficient and wanted complete access to the paper, which the panel has subpoenaed. The Oversight Committee convened following the briefing.
What Luna heard shook her to her core.
“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 stated to Fox News that the FBI’s worries were “alarming and scary.”
Luna mentioned that the committee will start holding hearings on Thursday to discuss whether or not to charge FBI Director Christopher Wray with contempt of Congress.
“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 claimed that although being from 2020, the form describing claims of attempts by foreign money to influence policy contained details the FBI had been aware of as early as 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.
Jim Jordan, the Ohio Republican who chairs the House Judiciary Committee, informed Hannity on the same broadcast that the paperwork Comer is looking for “just isn’t a document that’s 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 British ex-spy Christopher Steele, who wrote the infamous dossier against then-presidential candidate Donald Trump in 2016, and who the FBI used as the basis for starting an investigation into the Trump 2016 presidential campaign, is likely far less credible than the informant alleging the Biden bribery scheme, according to the Ohio Republican.
The FBI’s “Russia collusion” probe, which dragged on for years during the Trump presidency, also relied heavily on the Steele dossier.
“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.
