The chairman of the House Oversight Committee plans to move forward this week with holding FBI Director Christopher Wray in contempt of Congress.
Oversight Chairman Rep. James Comer said a more-than-hourlong briefing he received Monday from bureau officials about an unverified law enforcement tip against President Joe Biden does not amount to compliance with a subpoena.
"The FBI again refused to hand over the unclassified record to the custody of the House Oversight Committee," Comer told reporters after the briefing. "And we will now initiate contempt of Congress hearings this Thursday." The White House called the decision by Comer to move forward with contempt "another fact-free stunt" intended to "spread thin innuendo to try to damage the President politically and get himself media attention."
The document Republicans are focused on is what's known as an FD-1023, which agents use to record unverified tips and information they receive from confidential human sources. The FBI says such documents can contain uncorroborated and incomplete information, and that record of a tip does not validate the information.Comer subpoenaed Wray for a copy of the document and warned he would be prepared to hold him in contempt of Congress if he didn't provide it.
Raskin said FBI officials told them the unverified tip against Biden relates to information that former Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani provided to the Justice Department in 2020 about the business dealings of Biden and his son, Hunter Biden, in Ukraine. Hunter Biden worked on the board of Burisma, a Ukrainian gas company.
He added that releasing the document to the public would be a "dangerous thing" because it could endanger the confidentiality of law enforcement sources.
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