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https://oversightdemocrats.house.gov/news/press-releases/ranking-member-raskin-s-statement-following-review-of-debunked-fbi-tipPress Release
Ranking Member Raskins Statement Following Review of Debunked FBI Tip
Jun 5, 2023 Press release
Washington, D.C. (June 5, 2023)Today, Rep. Jamie Raskin, Ranking Member of the Committee on Oversight and Accountability, issued the following statement after the FBI made the FD-1023 subpoenaed by Committee Republicans available for review and provided a briefing on the Trump Justice Departments steps to investigate the tip that was ultimately determined to be unfounded:
Today, the FBI accommodated Chairman Comers May 3 subpoena by making available for in-person review the requested FD-1023 form and answering my and Chairman Comers questions for over an hour. As the FBI explained at length during todays briefing, and in previous conversations leading up to todays accommodation, releasing this form publicly could place the Confidential Human Source in grave danger and undermine the integrity of FBI programs and investigations going forward. Yet, rather than acknowledge these legitimate law enforcement concerns, Chairman Comer has declared his intent to hold Director Wray in contempt of Congress to further promote debunked Republican conspiracy theories.
But here are the facts: the FD-1023 form, which we reviewed first-hand today, records what a Confidential Human Source told the FBI about conversations he had with individuals in Ukraine. The source, who has been described as highly credible by the FBI, told the FBI he could not provide any opinion on the underlying veracity of the information provided by these Ukrainian individuals.
However, Trumps own Department of Justice was able to reach a conclusion about this information. In January 2020, Attorney General Barr handpicked Scott Brady, the U.S. Attorney in Pittsburgh, to review allegations by Rudy Giuliani that President Biden and Hunter Biden were involved in a Ukrainian corruption scheme. As part of this assessment, U.S. Attorney Brady, together with a team of experienced prosecutors and FBI agents, assessed relevant information, including interviewing this Confidential Human Sourcean interview that was recorded in the subpoenaed FD-1023 form. Much of the information provided by the source was information Mr. Giuliani had already provided the FBI. In August 2020, Attorney General Barr and his hand-picked U.S. Attorney signed off on closing the assessment, having found no evidence to corroborate Mr. Giulianis allegations.
We now know what I had long suspected: that Chairman Comers subpoena is about recycling stale and debunked Burisma conspiracy theories long peddled by Rudy Giuliani and a Russian agent, sanctioned by former President Trumps own Treasury Department, as part of the effort to smear President Biden and help Mr. Trumps reelection campaign.
Chairman Comers actions prove that his interest in issuing this subpoena was never about seeking the truth, but was always about weaponizing the powers of this Committee to hold Director Wray in contempt as part of MAGA Republicans efforts to discredit and ultimately dismantle the FBI.
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Raskin's Statement Following Review of Debunked FBI Tip (Recycled Burisma crap) (Original Post)
Nevilledog
Jun 2023
OP
Why would the GOP radicals want to eliminate the FBI? What purpose does that serve?
Ford_Prefect
Jun 2023
#4
BOSSHOG
(37,046 posts)1. Tomato, tamato
Benghazi, burisma. Millions wasted by fiscally conservative lunatics who dont know how to manage money. Or govern. Or lead.
Comer V Raskin. Yo mr chairmans yer gonna need a bigger gavel.
You nailed it.
crickets
(25,963 posts)2. Thank you, Jamie Raskin. 💙
FakeNoose
(32,634 posts)3. Well done Jamie Raskin - and thank you
"Chairman Comers actions prove that his interest in issuing this subpoena was never about seeking the truth, but was always about weaponizing the powers of this Committee to hold Director Wray in contempt as part of MAGA Republicans efforts to discredit and ultimately dismantle the FBI.
Boom!
Ford_Prefect
(7,892 posts)4. Why would the GOP radicals want to eliminate the FBI? What purpose does that serve?
Which of Putin's agents do you suppose they are trying to protect?
calimary
(81,220 posts)5. GOP is looking more and more desperate.
As their ship sinks, they're left grasping at straws - which will NOT help keep them from drowning.
usonian
(9,776 posts)6. "We want accusations, not truth!": Chairman Gomer
H2O Man
(73,536 posts)7. Recommended.
kimbutgar
(21,131 posts)9. So another big nothing burger from the liars in the MAGAloon universe.
cilla4progress
(24,726 posts)10. Puppets
for Putin
johnnyfins
(816 posts)11. Comer is just Diet Gingrich