We often think of institutions as inherently corrupt. And some are. But within the FBI it’s very much a case of political agendas being played out by certain figures.
“Highly credible” whistleblowers have come forward to a senior Senate Republican alleging a widespread effort within the FBI to downplay or discredit negative information about President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, according to letters reviewed by CBS News.
“The information provided to my office involves concerns about the FBI’s receipt and use of derogatory information relating to Hunter Biden, and the FBI’s false portrayal of acquired evidence as disinformation,” GOP Sen. Chuck Grassley wrote FBI Director Christopher Wray and Attorney General Merrick Garland on July 25. “The volume and consistency of these allegations substantiate their credibility and necessitate this letter.”
Grassley, the ranking member on the Senate Judiciary Committee, said the whistleblowers alleged that legitimate streams of information and intelligence about the president’s son were characterized as likely disinformation or prematurely shut down leading up to the 2020 presidential election.
Some of that involves known players.
FBI supervisory intelligence agent Brian Auten opened in August 2020 the assessment that was later used by the agency, according to the disclosures. One of the whistleblowers claimed the FBI assistant special agent in charge of the Washington field office, Timothy Thibault, shut down a line of inquiry into Hunter Biden in October 2020 despite some of the details being known to be true at the time.
A whistleblower also said Thibault “ordered closed” an “avenue of additional derogatory Hunter Biden reporting,” according to Grassley, even though “all of the reporting was either verified or verifiable via criminal search warrants.” The senator said Thibault “ordered the matter closed without providing a valid reason as required” and that FBI officials “subsequently attempted to improperly mark the matter in FBI systems so that it could not be opened in the future,” according to the disclosures.
Whistleblowers alleged investigators from an FBI headquarters team “were in communication with FBI agents responsible for the Hunter Biden information targeted by Mr. Auten’s assessment” and that their findings on whether the claims were true or disinformation were placed “in a restricted access sub-file” in September 2020, according to the senator.
The connections of course run in both directions.
The new information comes after Auten was involved in the Trump-Russia investigation, including interviewing Igor Danchenko, the alleged main source for British ex-spy Christopher Steele’s dossier in 2017. Congressional sources confirmed to the Washington Examiner that Auten is the “Supervisory Intel Agent” from DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s 2019 report on Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act abuse.
All of this is connected. From Russiagate to protecting Joe Biden, Democrat political allies within the DOJ colluded to cover up for Hillary and now for Biden.tz’s 2019 report on Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act abuse.
All of this is connected. From Russiagate to protecting Joe Biden, Democrat political allies within the DOJ colluded to cover up for Hillary and now for Biden.
Walter Sieruk says
It’s sad , tragic and even terrible to even think that The Federal Bureau of Investigation is no longer the once grand law and order all American institution that it had once been in the past.
The FBI , for some time , as become thoroughly infiltrated and corrupt by the insidious subversive influence of sly operatives of Communist- Islamic alliance. Also known as “The Red/Green Alliance.”
That wicked force of the Red/Green alliance has only increased in it’s sinister power when Joe Biden and his administration took power on January 20, 2021. Even before that day the FBI wasn’t dong what was originally designed for , meaning investigate and arrested dangerous Communists and kidnappers in the United States. Instead the FBI lines up with the Marxist of Antifa to engage in a despicable schemed set up and entrapment against American patriots at Washington on January 6, 2021 and then go after go after concerned Conservative parents at different PTA meeting across the country libeling them as “domestic terrorists” all the while letting the violent dangerous and destructive actural, real , domestic terrorists of Antifa and BLM go investigated and go free.
What’s more now the FBI is even taking part in a cover up of the corruption of Hunter Biden.
Truth can be stranger than fiction.
Egor says
I might suggest that it has always been a little “corrupt”. Just look at J. Edgar hoover.. If he wasn’t an accessory before the fact, it is highly likely he was an accessory after the fact in the assassination of JFK. Also, look at his connection to the mafia, especially in Florida. It is fairly obvious that all the bureaucracies in the US, and in other countries, have been taken over by the Left. This is enough to stop, if not severely slow down, the operations of a legitimately elected government. You just to have a look who gets promoted. Not only do you have to be seen as walking the woke, you have to also be seen to be talking the toke. I could not wait to get out. .
gravenimage says
The Same FBI Moles Pushing Russiagate Are Protecting Hunter Biden
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Sadly not surprised. There was a time when I greatly respected the FBI…
mortimer says
Auten could not have done this is the management of FBI was not partisan and corrupt, placing the fortunes of their Bosses (in business and the Dem Party) before their duty to uphold the law.
They turned the power of the federal police force against a political party they did not want in power. This is a corruption of their job and one that should be severely punished.
The managers above Auten SHOULD have stopped him and thus they are also guilty and deserve to be fired also.
mortimer says
correction: Auten could not have done this IF the management
Westman says
Is there any thinking Democrat who believes Hunter Biden is not corrupt? With the many media outlets and social media hawking Hunter’s behavior, the FBI was wasting resources to even be involved in a coverup to influence an election that further tarnished its image.
It’s claimed that certain nation’s despots are tolerated because they are favorable to us – the phrase is, “they are our SOBs”
It seems a simple matter that Hunter Biden is a Dem’s, “SOB”.
PMK says
Hunter is as corrupt as everyone else in DC. What does it matter?
Who hawked Hunter’s behavior before the laptop was made public in October, 2020? The FBI may have tried to hide the existence of the laptop but the true coverup was by the media, which censored the story and took the New York Post off social media, preventing millions of American voters who rely on social media from learning about the Biden Crime Family until after the election. As for the FBI’s image, it was all but destroyed by four years of the Russia Collusion hoax and the role senior FBI agents played. 2020 was just more of the same..
Ugly Sid says
Biden is to corruption what cornstarch is to sauces.
James Lincoln says
Years back, I associated the FBI with patriots like Eliot Ness.
Years back…
gravenimage says
Agreed, James.
JPierson says
It’s interesting to me that two Idahoans have been at the center of the two most consequential presidential scandals in the last 60 or so years.
Deep throat took down Nixon. Brian Auten dishonestly tried to take down Trump and ran FBI cover for Hunter Biden!
Auten may turn out to be a whistleblower or may eventually exonerate his character, but Auten’s role as a stooge for the FBI fraternity and the negative impact his actions have had on U.S. politics is and will be felt for decades.
Auten lied and/or at least failed to disclose information to the FISA court and tried to shut down the Biden laptop investigation. Lawyers can argue about the framing, but the facts are well known.
Auten was, ironically a professor of surveillance ethics and a theologian. Auten has written extensively about politics and religion and regularly had articles published by conservative and religious organizations.
Recently Auten showed an interest in how modern Christian theology in the PNW and its influence on different groups. Unfortunately, I think Auten has forgotten his roots and the ethics he learned growing up in southern Idaho.
I know personally how the pressure to perform and bend your will to political actors encourages ethical compromises, particularly in government. I understand how a small compromise gives ground to larger compromises. Eventually, though we all must account for our failures and our sins.
Every Bible believer and every Christian understands the need to confess and repent from sin, but what if your sin affects every person in the world?
Some Christians talk about the circle of sin – the individuals affected directly by your sin. In Christianity, part of repentance would be addressing that circle and asking forgiveness!
A practiced intellectual theologian will find issues with this last paragraph, however, no loophole gets a person around the need to acknowledge their sins and seek forgiveness.
In Auten’s case, his circle of sin is very large. Auten’s circle of sin includes, at the very least, every U.S. Citizen. For Auten, acknowledging his sin and seeking forgiveness may be as unique as his sin and the size of his circle, but it begins with a fearless, selfless, and public admission of his sins.
I suspect that on some level the drama and consequences of Auten publicly revealing all his sins would be the basis of a spy novel but Christianity has never preached ‘confess your sins unless confession leads to financial, social, and legal devastation’!
The consequence of Auten admitting his sins publicly may go beyond social, legal, and financial. Going public, so to speak, could endanger his life. Realistically, Auten could take down every smarmy DOJ and FBI official we heard about for the last 6 or 7 years. His confession could lead to many in Congress, the Whitehouse, and beyond going to jail. The consequences though are irrelevant.
Our nation is in such a divided state that the only thing that may be able to save us is truth and absolute candor. While that may seem naïve, consider how weak and divided the last two decades of lies and political games have made us.