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FBI declines GOP subpoena on Biden ‘alleged criminal scheme’
The FBI declined to immediately provide congressional Republicans with a document the lawmakers say outlines an “alleged criminal scheme” involving President Biden and a foreign nationa…
thehill.com
FBI declines to provide House chairman with document he claims will implicate Biden in 'criminal scheme'
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., had issued a subpoena for access to sensitive law enforcement materials.
www.nbcnews.com
The FBI declined to immediately provide congressional Republicans with a document the lawmakers say outlines an “alleged criminal scheme” involving President Biden and a foreign national, blowing through a Wednesday deadline to produce the unverified information that was subpoenaed by House Oversight and Reform Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.).
Grassley, meanwhile, insisted that the FBI's "offer to provide an accommodation process in response to our legitimate request indicates the document is real."
Reached for comment, an FBI spokesperson said the report requested by Comer’s committee “is used by FBI agents to record unverified reporting by a confidential human source.”
“Documenting the information does not validate it, establish its credibility, or weigh it against other information verified by the FBI,” the spokesperson said in a statement, cautioning that providing such information could harm investigations and judicial proceedings and “unfairly violate privacy or reputations.”
Seems like this is a bit of a bad look.
When reading the various articles on the subject...the underlying notion seems to be the rationale of withholding because "it's unverified".
While that's a good principle, in theory, I don't think it's applied consistently. Saying "this info isn't verified, so it shouldn't be disseminated to the public" would hold a lot more water if some folks in the press and in Washington weren't tripping over themselves to get the Steele Dossier into public view (and discourse) as quick as possible with no regard for "how it may impact a person's reputation"
...and I'm saying that as a person who's not a Trump fan, this one appears to be a clear double-standard.