Will Biden's Attorney General Appoint A Special Counsel Now That The FBI Tried Burying Hunter Evidence?

By Pamela Glass | Thursday, 28 July 2022 08:35 AM
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Will Biden's Attorney General Appoint A Special Counsel Now That The FBI Tried Burying Hunter Evidence?

Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., is demanding the Department of Justice open an internal investigation or appoint a special counsel after new whistleblower accusations that the DOJ and FBI illegally suppressed information on Hunter Biden and that the FBI was "weaponized" against sitting members of the Senate.

The Wisconsin senator's demands come the day after Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, announced that new "highly credible whistleblowers" at the DOJ and FBI shared information with his office detailing a "pattern of active public partisanship" at the agencies about investigations into the Trump campaign and suppression of information on the Hunter Biden probe.

Johnson, who serves as the ranking member on the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, wrote a follow-up letter Tuesday to Attorney General Merrick Garland, FBI Director Chris Wray, Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines and DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz.

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In the letter, he states the new whistleblower information confirms there was a "scheme" in place among FBI officials to discount derogatory information regarding the president's son Hunter Biden by labeling it as "disinformation."

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Both Johnson and Grassley recounted events between July and October 2020, throughout which the FBI, including Assistant Special Agent in Charge Timothy Thibault, FBI Supervisory Intelligence Analyst Brian Auten and Democratic senators, gave Republicans probing the Hunter allegations the runaround on information, falsely claiming that the GOP was advancing "foreign disinformation" regarding the now-president's son.

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An Aug. 6, 2020 meeting, GOP senators now argue after whistleblower corroboration, was explicitly intended to "undermine" their investigation into Hunter Biden.

"If these recent whistleblower revelations are true, it would strongly suggest that the FBI’s August 6, 2020 briefing was a targeted effort to undermine a Congressional investigation intentionally," Johnson announced in the Tuesday letter. "The FBI being weaponized against two sitting chairmen of U.S. Senate committees with constitutional oversight responsibilities would be one of the greatest episodes of Executive Branch corruption in American history," Johnson goes on.

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"For nearly two years I have sought to get information from the FBI and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) about the purpose of, and who ordered, this briefing. On May 3, 2021, Senator Grassley and I reiterated these requests in a letter to Directors Wray and Haines. Both failed to provide complete responses," Johnson declared.

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The senator said that the FBI's integrity is now being called into question and the agency can "no longer be trusted to investigate Hunter Biden with integrity and the equal application of law." Furthermore, he declares that Garland has failed to provide both Grassley and him "assurances" that the DOJ probe will be free from conflicts of interest.

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