Christopher
Wray
(via
YouTube).
House
Oversight
Chair
James
Comer
is
preparing
land
it
like
The
Hindenberg.
Again.
The
Kentucky
Republican
seized
the
gavel
in
2023,
promising
to
reveal
damning
information
about
the
“Biden
Crime
Family.”
So
far,
he’s
come
up
empty,
despite
raining
subpoenas
down
on
the
president’s
extended
family
and
every
financial
institution
they
ever
dealt
with.
Now
he’s
preparing
a
contempt
of
Congress
referral
accusing
FBI
Director
Chris
Wray
of
hiding
damning
information
about
President
Biden
taking
a
bribe
from
a
foreign
government
when
he
was
vice
president.
“The
FBI
again
refused
to
hand
over
the
unclassified
record
to
the
custody
of
the
House
Oversight
Committee,”
Comer
told
reporters
yesterday.
“And
we
will
now
initiate
contempt
of
Congress
hearings
this
Thursday.”
The
latest
kerfuffle
concerns
an
FD-1023
form
memorializing
an
unverified
tip
from
a
confidential
human
source
in
June
of
2020
alleging
a
foreign
bribery
scheme
several
years
prior
involving
the
then-VP.
And
if
this
sounds
like
something
Rudy
Giuliani
was
flogging
all
over
conservative
media
in
the
run-up
to
the
2020
election,
that’s
because
it
is.
Comer
and
his
fellow
traveler,
Senator
Chuck
Grassley,
have
scrupulously
avoided
mentioning
what
country
might
be
involved
in
this
alleged
scheme
and
what
the
official
action
was.
But
Rep.
Jamie
Raskin,
the
ranking
member
on
Oversight,
confirms
that
it’s
the
same
old
allegations
about
Hunter
Biden,
Burisma,
and
Biden
twisting
Ukraine’s
arm
to
fire
its
corrupt
prosecutor
Viktor
Shokin
—
allegations
which
were
already
investigated
and
rejected
by
the
Justice
Department
under
Attorney
General
Bill
Barr.
Not
that
Barr
didn’t
try
real
hard
to
make
that
particular
stupid
game
of
fetch
happen.
The
AG
tasked
former
Pittsburgh
US
Attorney
Scott
Brady
with
vetting
Rudy’s
bullshit,
some
of
which
came
from
literal
Russian
spy
Andrii
Derkach,
who
was
sanctioned
by
the
Treasury
Department
in
2020
for
trying
to
interfere
in
that
year’s
election.
Brady
looked
into
the
tip,
determined
that
it
didn’t
bear
escalation,
and
reportedly
closed
the
investigation
in
August
of
that
year.
But
having
promised
to
find
something
to
tie
Joe
Biden
to
the
bog
standard
sleaze
that
his
family
is
involved
in,
Comer
and
Grassley
have
now
fixated
on
seizing
the
document
and
making
it
public.
And
they
don’t
care
that
compromising
human
sources
is
not
really
how
you
“back
the
blue.”
For
his
part,
Wray
has
let
the
senior
members
of
the
committees
see
the
document
behind
closed
doors
at
the
FBI.
Raskin
emerged,
confirming
that
he’d
viewed
the
document,
and
it
was
the
same
frothy
mix
of
ranting
and
black
hair
dye
that
Giuliani
was
emitting
three
years
ago:
“We
now
know
what
I
had
long
suspected:
that
Chairman
Comer’s
subpoena
is
about
recycling
stale
and
debunked
Burisma
conspiracy
theories
long
peddled
by
Rudy
Giuliani
and
a
Russian
agent,
sanctioned
by
former
President
Trump’s
own
Treasury
Department,
as
part
of
the
effort
to
smear
President
Biden
and
help
Mr.
Trump’s
reelection
campaign.”
Comer’s
staffers
appear
to
be
getting
desperate,
whispering
to
Politico
that
“Giuliani’s
name
doesn’t
appear
in
the
document
at
all.”
As
if
airbrushing
the
president’s
hapless
lawyer
out
of
the
narrative
will
suddenly
make
the
story
credible.
If
Comer
were
smarter,
he’d
take
the
win.
Allowing
this
allegation
to
sit
out
there
unverified,
ever
the
white
whale
of
corruption,
is
undoubtedly
better
than
dragging
it
into
the
light
and
reminding
Americans
exactly
why
they
dismissed
it
as
nonsense
the
first
time.
But
no
one
has
ever
accused
Jamie
Comer
of
being
smart.
At
the
briefing,
the
FBI
again
refused
to
hand
over
the
unclassified
record
to
the
custody
of
the
House
Oversight
Committee
and
we
will
now
initiate
contempt
of
Congress
proceedings.
Given
the
severity
and
complexity
of
the
allegations
contained
within
this
record,
Congress
must
investigate
further.
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.
TL,
DR?
Chris
Wray
is
Deep
State.
Bill
Barr
is
Deep
State.
Scott
Brady
is
Deep
State.
And
everyone
at
the
FBI
who
looked
at
Rudy’s
spy
fantasies
and
said,
“LOL,
nope!”
is
Deep
State.
And
if
they
don’t
all
admit
it,
Jamie
Comer’s
gonna
throw
’em
all
in
jail!
House
GOP
tees
up
contempt
vote
for
FBI
director
as
Biden
probe
heats
up
[Poitico]
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Dye lives
in
Baltimore
where
she
writes
about
law
and
politics
and
appears
on
the Opening
Arguments podcast.