Agents probing President Joe Biden's son "opened an assessment which was used by an FBI headquarters team to discredit negative Hunter Biden information as disinformation improperly and caused investigative activity to cease," according to Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA). Grassley revealed the allegation after his office got "a significant number of defended communications from highly credible whistleblowers" about the investigation. The Republican claimed one of the communications shows "verified, and verifiable derogatory information on Hunter Biden was falsely labeled as disinformation."
FBI supervisory intelligence agent Brian Auten opened in August 2020 the estimate that was later used by the agency, according to the disclosures. One of the whistleblowers argued the FBI assistant special agent in charge of the Washington field office, Timothy Thibault, shut down a line of inquiry into Hunter Biden in October 2020, notwithstanding some of the details being known to be true at the time.
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A whistleblower further announced Thibault “ordered closed” an “avenue of additional derogatory Hunter Biden reporting," according to Grassley, even though “all of the reporting was either verified or verifiable via criminal search warrants.” The senator stated Thibault “ordered the matter closed without providing a valid reason as required,” and those FBI officials “subsequently attempted to improperly mark the matter in FBI systems so that it could not be opened in the future,” according to the disclosures.
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Whistleblowers claimed that investigators from an FBI headquarters team “were in communication with FBI agents responsible for the Hunter Biden information targeted by Mr. Auten's assessment” and that their discoveries on whether the arguments were true or disinformation was placed “in a restricted access sub-file” in September 2020, according to the senator.
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The whistleblower disclosures “appear to indicate that there was a scheme in place among certain FBI officials to undermine derogatory information connected to Hunter Biden by falsely suggesting it was disinformation," Grassley announced. The new accusations, summarized by Grassley in a Monday letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland and FBI Director Christopher Wray, were previously unknown.
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The new information comes after Auten was involved in the Trump-Russia investigation, including interviewing Igor Danchenko, the claimed main source for British ex-spy Christopher Steele’s dossier in 2017. Congressional sources confirmed to the Washington Examiner that Auten is the “Supervisory Intel Agent” from DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s 2019 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act abuse report.
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Grassley announced the “volume and consistency” of the whistleblower allegations “substantiate their credibility.” The allegations arrive as the U.S. attorney’s office in Delaware is reportedly nearing a choice on whether to charge Hunter Biden, who has denied any wrongdoing.
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