House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer, R-Ky., is very upset with FBI Director Chris Wray. At issue is a document that Comer has subpoenaed from the bureau that he and Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, have said “describes an alleged criminal scheme involving then-Vice President [Joe] Biden and a foreign national relating to the exchange of money for policy decisions.”
That sounds like the kind of thing that Congress should definitely look into. There’s just one problem: According to CNN, the original source of the claim came from a slew of material, “many originating from sources in Ukraine,” that former credible person Rudy Giuliani provided to the Department of Justice in 2020. (NBC News has yet to independently verify CNN’s reporting on the contents of the document that has been subpoenaed.) That would mean that House Republicans are somehow still committed to following Giuliani down the exact same rabbit hole he has been plummeting to the bottom of for years.
House Republicans are somehow still committed to following Giuliani down the exact same rabbit hole he has been plummeting to the bottom of for years.
The fight is specifically over what’s known as an FD-1023 form, an internal FBI document that details “records of interactions with confidential sources,” according to NBC News. The subpoena that Comer issued covers all such forms, “including within any open, closed, or restricted access case files, created or modified in June 2020, containing the term ‘Biden,’ including all accompanying attachments and documents to those FD-1023 forms.”
In response, the FBI very politely said absolutely not. In a letter to Comer and Grassley, Christopher Dunham, the bureau’s acting assistant director for congressional affairs, explained that handing over the documents would go against Justice Department policy, which “strictly limits when and how confidential human source information can be provided outside of the FBI.” Comer and Grassley…
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