The yearslong feud between congressional Republicans and the FBI is reaching a new level of rancor as lawmakers prepare a resolution to hold bureau director Christopher Wray in contempt of Congress.
Both men have said they do not know if information is true, but insist the allegations warrant further investigation. TheThe document Republicans are focused on is what is known as an FD-1023 form, which is used by federal agents to record tips and information they receive from confidential human sources. The
says such documents can contain uncorroborated and incomplete information, and that the record of a tip does not validate the information.source that both Republicans and Democrats have described as credible. In it, the source details an unverified tip received 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.
At the time, then-Attorney General William Barr told reporters that he was being cautious about information coming out of Ukraine. The House impeached then-PresidentWHY DO REPUBLICANS WANT THE RECORD? House Republicans have used their power in the majority to aggressively investigate Joe Biden and the business dealings of Hunter Biden, including examining foreign payments and other aspects of the family’s finances. Since January,
has obtained thousands of pages of financial records from Biden family members through subpoenas to the Treasury Department and various financial institutions
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