The speaker discusses a letter written by Senator Chuck Grassley regarding alleged corruption within the Justice Department and FBI related to the Biden family. The letter highlights the FBI's knowledge of the Burisma scandal and Hunter Biden's involvement in a bribery scheme before the election, and their attempts to bury the information. Grassley requests information and records related to the investigation, emphasizing the need for transparency and accountability. The speaker expresses concern about the potential compromise of the President and the urgency to address the corruption.
Speaker 0: Just before the election, they all knew that the Burisma issues, the scandals as it was disclosed in the Hunter Biden, laptop, and specifically, they had details with this confidential human source that they've been seriously implicated in a bribery scheme. All that was known by the FBI prior to the election. And rather than following it up adequately, they tried to bury it, punish the senators who were onto it and then censor you, dear Americans, by getting Twitter and company to shut down reporting on the related Hunter Biden laptop. Chuck Grassley, the longtime senator from Iowa, issued another letter this week that I'm going to share with you. And it's a little bit of a lengthy letter, but I'm going to read it to you because there's so much information here about government corruption, specifically the corruption of the Justice Department and the FBI, and the protection racket for Joe Biden that helped them secure the presidency illicitly, it looks like, through the interference by the Justice Department and the FBI.
So I'm going to share it with you. It's little easier for me to read on my phone is dated October 24, 2023. It was sent to Merrick Garland, the Attorney General and Director Wray, the FBI Director, Christopher Wray. And direct Dear Attorney General Garland and Director Wray, since July 25, 2022, I have requested information from the Justice Department and the FBI with respect to legally protected whistleblower disclosures that informed my office of political bias infecting the decision making process in investigations related to the Biden family. Since that date, the Justice Department and FBI have failed to provide responsive records.
This letter is based on years of investigation, including the provision of information, records and allegations from multiple Justice Department whistleblowers that indicate there is and has been an effort among certain Justice Department and FBI officials to improperly delay and stop full and complete investigative activity into the Biden family, including but not limited to the D1023s referencing the Biden family. This alleged political infection breaks faith with the American people and will ruin our governmental institutions should Tinuum as just one initial example, I've been made aware that at one point in time the FBI maintained over 40 confidential human sources that provided criminal information related to Joe Biden, James Biden Hunter Biden. An essential question that must be answered is this, that the FBI investigate the information or shut it down. Indeed, if those sources were improperly shut down, it wouldn't be out of the ordinary for the FBI as this letter will address. By way of initial background.
Since August 2019, Senator Johnson and I have investigated the Biden Family's foreign Financial Dealings and Business Arrangements, September 23, 2020 and November 18, 2020. This is 3 years ago. We issued reports detailing our findings based in part on hundreds of Treasury Department suspicious activity reports, Transcribed interviews, and thousands of pages of Obama Biden administration government records. Our findings indicated potential criminal activity to include money laundering with respect to members of the Biden family and their business associates as well as strong financial connections to questionable foreign nationals and foreign government linked corporate entities. Then in March and April of 2022, we gave 3 speeches on the Senate floor, and made public bank records supporting the same findings and further connecting the Biden family business to businesses linked to the Communist Chinese government.
After that, on October 26, 2022, Senator Johnson and I provided hundreds of pages of bank records to U. S. Attorney Weiss, who's the U. S. Attorney in Delaware, now the Special Counsel, connecting the Biden family to Chinese government linked entities.
Since August of 2019, The Justice Department and FBI have refused to answer our questions, cooperate with our investigations, have made every effort to struck and frustrate legitimate and constitutional congressional oversight. On July 25, 2022, I wrote to the both of you. In that letter, I describe whistleblower allegations that the FBI developed information in 2020 about Hunter Biden's criminal financial and related activity. But ultimately but ultimately let me start over on that. I describe whistleblower allegations that the FBI developed information in 2020 about Hunter Biden's criminal financial and related activity, but ultimately shut it down, the FBI did, based on false assertions that it was subject to foreign disinformation.
It's been alleged that the basis for shutting Teget of Activity Down was an August 2020 assessment created by FBI Supervisory Intelligence Analyst Brian Auton. That assessment was used by an FBI headquarters team to improperly discredit negative Hunter Biden information as disinformation and cause investigative activity to cease. The precise basis for how the FBI headquarters team selected the specific information for inclusion in Alton's assessment is unknown, but the focus of the FBI Headquarters team's attention involved derogatory information about Hunter Biden and Joe Biden. In that same letter. I noted that in October 2020, an avenue of derogatory to Hunter Biden reporting was ordered closed at the direction of Assistant Special Agent in Charge Tim Tebow.
My office has been made aware that FBI agents responsible for the information that was shut down were interviewed by the FBI headquarters team and furtherance of Autyn's assessment, publicly released portions of Thiebaud's interview with the House Judiciary Committee confirmed the whistleblower's allegations. The transcript reportedly notes that an FBI headquarters and FBI BI Baltimore element wanted the Hunter Biden team Hunter Biden reporting closed, which Thibault followed threw on. Now, when I say FBI Baltimore, that's the Delaware operation. The U. S.
Attorney in Delaware, Weiss, who is now Special Counsel, part of the Biden regime up in Delaware, he is supported by the Baltimore Office of the FBI. On October 13, 2022, I wrote to both of you and US attorney Weiss with respect to specific records within the possession of the Justice Department and FBI indicating potential criminal activity in the Biden family's foreign business deals. This included the Biden family 10/23 that Chairman Comer and I ultimately made public on July 25, 2023. Specifically, I requested an array of records related to that Biden Family 10/23. That's that IRS that FBI form that described the Barisma bribe scheme for Hunter and Joe totaling $10,000,000.
While all 3 recipients of my letter have failed to provide their requested information, none have disputed the allegations I presented to them. Although investigative activity was scuttled by the FBI in 2020, the origins of additional activity relate back to years earlier. For example, in December 2019, the FBI Washington field office closed a 205 kleptocracy case, 205 Serial 7 into Mykola Przewetzki, owner of Barisma, which was opened in January 2016 by a Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, FBI squad based out of the FBI's Washington Field Office. This Foreign Corrupt Practices Act squad, including agents from the FBI headquarters. In February 2020, a meeting took place at the FBI Pittsburgh field office with FBI Headquarters Elements.
That meeting involved discussions about investigative matters related to the Hunter Biden investigation and related inquiries, which most likely would have included the case against Przyvevski. Then in March 2020 and at the request of the Justice Department, a guardian assessment was opened out of the Pittsburgh field office to analyze information provided by Rudy Giuliani. So, what happened was you may recall that Barr, then Attorney General, had kicked all this Hunter Biden stuff up to Pittsburgh and that Pittsburgh U. S. Attorney was trying to evaluate the information he was getting from Rudy Giuliani, things that he was finding out, plus the information the FBI also had.
And he got nowhere, by the way. He would find information, send it to the relevant U. S. Attorneys' Offices and they would bury it. And the FBI was involved in burying it well.
During the course of that assessment, Justice Department and FBI officials located an FT1023 from March 2017 relating to the 2000b kleptocracy investigation of Shevetsky. That's the Biden way, isn't it? That FD 10/23 included a reference to Hunter Biden being on the Board of Barista, which the handling agents deemed at the time non relevant information to the ongoing criminal case. And when that FT 1023 was discovered, Justice Department and FBI officials asked the handler for the confidential human source to re interview the confidential human source. According to reports, that was a fight for a month to get the handler to reinterview the CHS.
Eventually, that reinterview took place, and the Biden Family 10/23 about the alleged criminal scheme between then Vice President Biden, Hunter Biden, and Cholesky was created in June 2020. A 10/23 must be serialized to a case, so that Biden Family 10/23 was serialized to the Pittsburgh assessment. Again, that's the Barr initiated investigation I told you about. Accordingly, claims that the Biden Family 1023 was part of that information provided by Giuliani are incorrect. So the Left tried to pretend Giuliani was the one who pushed this bribe scheme allegation to the Justice Department and the FBI, this Burisma bribe scheme that had the according to this confidential human source, the head of Burisma confessed essentially that he gave $5,000,000 for Joe and $5,000,000 for Hunter to ensure that Burisma was unharassed by Anti Corruption Act investigators in Ukraine and elsewhere.
The information in the Biden Family 10/23 was obtained separate from Giuliani from a longstanding, high paid FBI confidential human source who's been used in other investigative matters by the FBI, as the Jurvevsky case illustrates, that Biden Family 10/23 was serialized into the Pittsburgh assessment simply because it was the administrative avenue to house the source information. So the left has spent all this time and the Democrats on the Hill and the Biden administration have been spending all the time trying to suggest that the information documenting Biden corruption is tainted, tainted by Giuliani or Russia disinformation, whatever you have it. And that's just what Senator Grassley is trying to put onto the record that this information was coming from all different types of sources, all of which have been vetted more or less by the FBI and should have been taken seriously. Due to the fact that there was no case and merely an assessment, Now just think about that, no case and merely an assessment. Think of what they did to Donald Trump.
They concocted fake allegations against him as it relates to challenging election and the personal records he had in Mar a Lago and indicted him in an unprecedented fashion and trying to jail him and and obviously engaged in election interference. They did that in months. Here, you have years long investigations and they can't even get out of the assessment stage. And that isn't what they did for Trump when he was President. They immediately launched criminal inquiries as soon as they got negative information about him, which in retrospect, and they knew at the time, was shady and didn't warrant a further follow-up.
Here, they have significant information and they keep on figuring out ways to stall serious criminal investigations of the evidence that was staring them right in the face and frankly, that they were burying. Due to the fact there was no case and merely an assessment, as I said, Justice Department and FBI officials were limited their investigative abilities, including conducting database checks instead of using subpoenas and search warrants. No raids. They're only looking at databases, things that Judicial Watch could probably do. In addition, my office had been informed that the FBI agents and DOJ officials working, the Pittsburgh assessment had to pause their work for weeks at a time because the assessment had to be reapproved every 30 days by multiple DOJ and FBI officials.
Oh, they were nervous about Biden, all right. They didn't want to do anything. On June 30, 2020, the Biden Family 10/23 was serialized into the Pittsburgh Assessment, and the FBI leadership would likely have been briefed on it due to the nature of the reporting. Either on that day or shortly thereafter, travel mentioned in the Biden Family 10/23 was confirmed as well as some meetings that took place. So this information in the 10/23 implicating President of the United States now, Joe Biden, has been confirmed 6 ways to Sunday.
In August 2020 and possibly earlier, Supervisory Intelligence Analyst Brian Auton opened aforementioned assessment, which was used by the Foreign Influence Task Force to seek out CHS holdings at FBI field offices across the country relating to the Biden family and falsely discredit them as false foreign information. So just a few months before the election, a top guy in the FBI put out an APP it's not literally what he did for all material that would help Joe Biden. That's what he did. What corruption! What corruption.
Also in August 2020, the Foreign Influence Task Force improperly briefed me and Senator Johnson with respect to our Biden family investigation after pressure from congressional Democrats. That improper briefing was used by Democrats and partisan media to falsely claim our investigation, which was based on Obama Biden administrative records, was impracted by foreign disinformation. So that meeting was a setup. They went in there to create the appearance that Grassley and Johnson were barking up the wrong tree and were being misled or active allies of Russia disinformation operations. That's how corrupt the FBI was, and they knew otherwise.
They knew they were on to something. So they set up this fake meeting to give their friends like Adam Schiff an excuse to attack Grassley and Johnson with leaks suggesting that the FBI warned them of Russia disinformation as it relates to the Hunter Biden, Joe Biden criminal allegations. So it was obstruction of Congress too. That's what's going on here. On September 3, 2020, the Pittsburgh assessment was closed after a mere 6 months.
And on September 14, 2020, the Foreign Influence Task Force communicated with the handling agent for the Biden Family 1023 according to information provided by my office. The Foreign Influence Task Force attempted to shut down that reporting by falsely saying it was subject again to foreign disinformation. It should be emphasized that the basis for trying to shut down the Biden Family tentwenty 3. Again, this is the $10,000,000 bribe that Burisma's Chief talked about to a credible source that the FBI had been using for years. It should be emphasized that the basis for trying to shut down the Biden Family 10/23 has been described by my office as highly suspect and is contradicted by other documents my office has been told exist within the Foreign Influence Task Force, FBI Seattle Field Office, FBI Baltimore Field Office and FBI Headquarter Holdings.
On September 21, 2020, after closure of the Pittsburgh assessment, U. S. Attorney Scott Brady transmitted a report to Principal Associate Attorney General, Rich Donahue, summarizing the findings in the FBI Assessment. The subject line of that report stated vetting. According to information provided to my office, the officials involved in the assessment had limited ability to verify all the information in the Biden Family 10/23 because the Justice Department did not authorize them to use a grand jury, and therefore, they didn't have all the tools at their disposal to run the information to ground, including subpoenas to obtain documents and interviews.
However, the report included a recommendation that additional investigative activity be done. This is just a few months before the election. Imagine if we knew this before the election in 2020. Notably, my office has been informed that with respect to the confidential human source in the Biden family 10/23, the U. S.
Attorney's Office for the Western District of Pennsylvania coordinated with the U. S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York in 2020 and found no hits to known sources of Russia disinformation. The report, including information on the Biden Family 10/23, was ultimately transmitted to U. S.
Attorney Weiss, who is according to Attorney General Garland, had every investigative tool at his disposal even before being designated as a Special Counsel. So, Weiss has had all this for years. Just before the election, they all knew that the Burisma issues, the scandals as it was disclosed in the Hunter Biden laptop, and specifically, they had details with this confidential human source that they've been, seriously implicated in a bribery scheme, all that was known by the FBI prior to the election. And rather than following it up adequately, they tried to bury it, punish the senators who were onto it, and then censor you, dear Americans, by getting Twitter and company to shut down reporting on the related Hunter Biden Tom? Since making the Biden Family 1023 public on July 25, 2023, it's been made clear by former Attorney General Barr, Director Wray, and Deputy Director Abadie that the 10/23 is part of an ongoing investigative matter indicating its investigative credibility and authenticity.
As such, it's essential that we examine the alleged attempts by FBI personnel will sweep it under the rug, as well as what steps U. S. Attorney Weiss has taken to use document for his ongoing investigation. On October 5, 2020, Supervisory Special Agent Eric Miller and Assistant Special Agent in Charge DeBeau participated in a call with the Washington Field Office, Baltimore Field Office, Wobank and Delaware FBI agents, and FBI management personnel. That call allegedly included Assistant Special Agent in Charge, Alfred Watson Supervisory Special Agent, Joe Gordon Special Agent, Susan Repke and Special Agent Joshua Wilson, notably FBI agents for the Baltimore Field Office, were attached to U.
S. Attorney Weiss's investigation, as I described earlier. My office has been informed that on that call, it was confirmed the Delaware case currently run by U. S. Attorney Weiss was opened as a Money Laundering and Foreign Agents Registration Act case, not a bribery case as the Biden Family 10/23 would appear to require, and that it was jointly worked with the IRS.
On that call, it was made clear that Delaware FBI agents were in possession of email evidence that contradicted denials made by Joe Biden that he was never aware or involved in Hunter Biden's business arrangements. Again, they all knew Joe was her crook a month before the election. They all knew. And anyone who said otherwise, they said was a liar and a Russian agent, including Trump. On October 23, 2020, again, just before the election, Tony Bobolinski met with and was interviewed by James Dawson, a Washington Field Office Special Agent in Charge Acting Assistant Special Agent in Charge Giulio Arsini, Special Agent William Novak, and Special Agent Garrett Churchill.
Bobolinski provided firsthand knowledge as an eye and ear witness to Joe Biden's involvement in potentially criminal schemes with Hunter Biden. Notably, on October 13, 2022, I wrote a letter to both you and U. S. Attorney Weiss with respect to a summary of Bob Olinsky's FBI interview that my staff reviewed and which included, in part, reference to the Biden family, to the Bidens receiving an unsecured $5,000,000 loan intended to be forgivable from CEFC, which is the Chinese energy company, Communist, in 2017 that would serve as a payment for actions Joe Biden took during his Vice Presidency. Evidence of a bribe from the Chinese communists.
My gosh. This financial strategy to illegally treat income as a loan is consistent with IRS whistleblower testimony that indicated Hunter Biden attempted the same with respect to other income, including payments received from Burisma. Also on October 23, 2020, Justice Department, FBI special agents from the Pittsburgh Field Office, brief Assistant U. S. Attorney Leslie Wolf, one of U.
S. Attorneys Weisz's top prosecutors and FBI special agents from the Baltimore Field Office with respect to the contents of the Biden Family 10/23. However, the meeting did not include any IRS agents, and the AUSA Wolf prevented investigators from seeking information about Joe Biden's involvement and Hunter Biden's criminal arrangements. So they were protecting actively Joe Biden. Based on the information provided to my office over a period of years by multiple credible whistleblowers, there appears to be an effort within the Justice Department and FBI to shut down investigative digative activity related to the Biden family.
Such decisions point to significant political bias infecting the decision making of not only the Attorney General and FBI Director, but also line agents and prosecutors. Our republic cannot survive such a political infection, and you have an obligation to this country to clear the air. Accordingly, based on the aforementioned information, I've obtained the names of 25 DOJ and FBI personnel to interview at a future date, some of whom have named above, who either had a direct or indirect role in the allegations described above. In addition, please provide the requested information no later than November 17, 2023. This is the requested information.
All records between and among the U. S. Attorney's Office for the Western District of Pennsylvania and the U. S. Attorney's Office for Eastern to New York relating to Hunter Biden, James Biden, Joe Biden, the Biden family, an unredacted copy of the September 2020 report transmitted to the Justice Department officials, to Richard Donahue, who was Deputy Attorney General, call, all records including, and there's a number of records, from January 1, 2014, goes back to 2014, this investigation, to the date of this letter that referenced Przybylowski, the Hunter Biden, James Biden, and Joe Biden.
Was Tony Bobolinski's interview summary placed within the Guardian file? Was it placed within an investigative case file or was buried, right? That's the question he has. All records related to the May 2, 2017 and May 3, 2017 meetings between Tony Bobolinski and Joe Biden. Well, Balinski met with Joe Biden.
The case file for the Biden, Joe Biden, and their foreign business relationships that was Hunter Biden, James Biden, Joe Biden, and their foreign business relationships that was overseen under the approval, guidance, and purview of Assistant Special Agent in Charge Thibault from January 1, 2020 to his last day at the FBI, all opened and closed cases initiated by the Washington Field Office under the purview of Thiebaud that were ordered closed by him and or denied for opening by the Justice Department's Public Integrity Section and or the United States Attorney's Offices in the District of Columbia and the Eastern District of Virginia. So by my count, there are Eastern District of Virginia, Eastern District of New York, D. C, Seattle, Pittsburgh, and Delaware, 7 U. S. Attorneys' Offices.
I tell you, it looks like the Justice Department did nothing else in the last 2 years of the Trump administration and the FBI other than cover up for Joe Biden. Now I just lost my place. Let me get maybe I can see it here in the letter. Oral records between and among the Foreign Influence Task Force, FBI's Seattle Field Office, the Baltimore Field Office and FBI Headquarters using the terms Russian disinformation or foreign disinformation from January 2019 to the date of this letter. From September 2020 to December 2020, so, 3 months or 4 months all records between and among the FBI, Baltimore Field Office, the D.
C. Field Office, and Delaware FBI agents regarding the Hunter Biden matter, including but not limited to Assistant Special Agent in Charge, Alfred Watson Supervisory Special Agent Gordon, Special Agent Ropke, and Special Agent Wilson. All records from January 1, 2020 to the date of letter between and among the FBI's Foreign Influence Task Force regarding the liquidation of human source reporting relating to Hunter Biden and Joe Biden, the Biden Family tentwenty 3, and all references to Biden. All records from January 2, 2019 to the date of this letter between and among the FBI field office, the Baltimore field office, the FBI Seattle field office, Delaware FBI agents and FBI management personnel related to the Hunter Biden matter. All records between and among Washington Field Office Special Agent in Charge James Dawson the Acting Assistant Special Agent in Charge, Julio Arceney, William Novak and Garrett Churchill relating to Tony Bobolinski, so that's the Bobolinski crew, and all records between Special Agent Supervisory Special Agent Miller, Assistant Special Agent in Charge, Geboah, regarding confidential human source reporting on all Hunter Biden related matters.
And Senator Grassley closes out his letter with the following. Truism, transparency brings accountability. Now that letter took a lot longer to read than I anticipated. My guys in the back are probably having a heart attack that went on so long. But I don't know about you, but I think it was worth doing, because this is the record of FBI and Justice Department corruption that should, in my view, result in massive decimation, defunding, reform, maybe even the ending of certain agencies.
These people, as Biden said, he's got 25 that he's listed he'd like to talk to, the House should bring them in immediately. As I keep on saying, we can't wait. To the degree these individuals are still in government, our law enforcement, our rule of law is threatened. This is the same crew that's protecting that has been protecting Biden has been harassing Trump. And I don't know about you, but you read this and I encourage you to kind of go and get the letter if you want to if you didn't listen to me I think I did a pretty good job reading it, given its length.
I mean, this is urgent. We have a President that looks like by all accounts is on and take. The FBI has known it for years, Justice Department has known it for years, but they've tried to destroy those who've tried to expose it. So Judicial Watch has much in the way of litigation on this information in here, So we're doing our own independent investigation of this. Kudos to Charles Grassley and Senator Ron Johnson and the leaders in the House who are pursuing this as well.
But we got to move faster. Now Chuck Grassley is in the minority in the Senate, so these requests, it's like shouting into the wind for him, they don't have much incentive to respond to a minority in the senator a minority representative in the Senate, the Biden administration. They don't care. They're not going to respond to him. As he's suggesting, they're ignoring his information.
But in the meantime, he's gathering the information that certainly the House, I hope, would follow-up on and certainly Judicial Watch already has followed upon, and we've been separately pursuing. We've sued for the 10/23 information. We've sued for the scheme to obstruct Congress. At least we're doing the heavy lifting, but we want Congress to do it as well. So it's important that you understand this letter and the crisis evidenced in it for our Nation, because right now, we have a President of the United States who's been compromised by the Russians, the Chinese and who knows who else.
And if you don't think the Russians and the Chinese and who knows who else don't know that, then you're terribly naive. And if you don't think that his corruption and his being compromised factors into the decision making by the Russians and the Chinese and other bad actors such as mass, then I don't know what to tell you. But it places the country at risk as long as this corruption is unaddressed and we whistle past your graveyard. And that's why Judicial Watch is so adamant about it, and that's why I took the time to read and share this information with you about the worst government corruption that I'm aware of ever. I know there's always something worse, perhaps,
