Sen, Charles Grassley (R-Iowa, 88, ranking member of the Judiciary Committee, said whistleblowers at the FBI exposed extreme political bias at the Washington Bureau, primarily against former President Donald Trump and Republicans in general. Grassley wrote FBI Director Christopher Wray, 54, asking him to research and explain the apparent extreme prejudice against Trump and the Republican Party. “Starting on May 31, 2022, I’ve written three letters to you r regarding political bias that has infected the FBI’s Washington Field Office,” Grassley said. “Two of those letters provided specific and credible allegations based on numerous whistleblowers that have approached my office with information that one can only conclude is indicative of a deeply rooted political infection that has spread to investigative activity into former President Trump and Hunter Biden,” Grassley wrote Wray.
Grassley raised former FBI Directory James Comey, 62, counterintelligence investigation into former President Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign and presidency. Grassely expressed concern that the investigation into Trump was not properly predicated, meaning it lacked sufficient probable cause to conduct such an investigation. Back in 2016, FBI top brass relied heavily on former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s paid opposition research AKA the Steele dossier, making wild allegations about Trump’s ties to Moscow. Comey used the Steele dossier to seek warrants to wiretap former Trump campaign officials, all based on the completely discredited Steele dossier. Comey said at the time, before he was fired May 8, 2017, that he relied on more than the Steele dossier. Comey never revealed any other source to justify probable cause for his Trump investigation.
Grassley expressed concern that President Joe Biden’s 52-year-old son, Hunter, was excused by FBI’s top brass for any further investigation into his laptop computer that showsed he made several multimillion dollar deals with China. “Shut down investigative activity and sources, which included verified and verifiable information, relating to Hunter Biden,” Grassley wrote to Wray. Grassley told Wray that the whistleblowers said that Special Agent in Charge Timothy Thibault did not follow appropriate probable cause to seek a search warrant of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resident, looking for classified documents stored in Trump’s locked storage room. Grassley wants to know whether proper predication was used for the search warrant approved by Atty. Gen. Merrick Garland Aug. 8. Grassley said the predication involved “selective assertions” and either removed or “watered down material,” connected to biased sourcing.
Grassely said that whistleblowers indicated that Thibault and Richard Pilger, serving in the DOJ’s Public Integrity Section, participated in the Crossfire Hurricane Investigation into Trump’s 2016 campaign. Deputy Atty. Gen. Lisa Monaco, an Obama deep-stater, orchestrated the search warrant to go after Trump. Monaco worked closely in 2016 with former FBI Director James Comey on Crossfire Hurricane, using the fake Steele dossier as probable cause to investigate Trump. Grassley wants Wray to implement structural changes in the FBI’s Washington Field Office to eliminate the kind of political bias that led to Mar-a-Lago search warrant. U.S. magistrate Bruce Reinhart, who approved the raid of Mar-a-Lago, wants part or all of the affidavit to be released to the public showing the probable cause used for the search warrant. DOJ officials claim such a release would compromise their investigation.
Whistleblowers led Grassley to call out FBI Director Christopher Wray to fix whatever political bias operates at the Washington Field Office. Wray never admitted that former FBI Director James Comey was not held accountable for the 2016 Crossfire Hurricane investigation, essentially built off the fake Steele dossier. Grassley wants “much-needed structural change at upper echelons of the FBI. Comey acted dumbfounded when former Atty. Gen. Bill Barr accused him April 11, 2019 of spying on the Trump campaign. Comey said he had “no idea,” because, in his mind, he had every right to investigate Trump for whatever reason in 2016. “As you are aware, Asst. Special Agent in Charge Tim Thibault is not the only politically biased FBI agent at the Washington Field Office,” Grassley wrote Wray. “The FBI answers to Congress and the American people,” Grassley told Wray.
When former FBI Agent Peter Strzok and FBI Atty. Lisa Page were exposed in 2016 with email exchanges and texts saying they would work to prevent Trump from becoming president, it exposed extreme bias at the FBI. No one knows the extent of the Democrat bias in 2016 by former Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe who dropped the Hillary email investigation for whatever reason. Grassley asks FBI Director Wray to explain why the Hunter Biden investigation was dropped, while the Trump investigation went full steam ahead. Grassley gave Wray until Aug. 31 to explain whistleblower complaints of political bias at the FBI’s Washington Field Office. Grassley knows that Special Counsel John Durham (R-Conn.) still works on the origin of Crossfire Hurricane. He wants Wray to explain any lingering political bias at the FBI when it comes to Trump and Hunter Biden.
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John M. Curtis writes politically neutral commentary analyzing spin in national and global news. He’s editor of OnlineColumnist.com and author of Dodging The Bullet and Operation Charisma.
